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Your childhood is a very impressionable time in anyone's life just like Amy Tan describes n her writing. Her childhood is connected in her writing in what she writes or how she writes.

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You grow up in your home with a certain dialect and hear people speaking a different way whenever you go places. Your language of how you speak relates to how you understand and comprehend which reflects on who you are and what you respond to help shape your identity to others.

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Tan quoted what her mother said to not lose her dialect of how she spoke to her. If she rephrased what her mother said it would have lost her mothers dialect and giving the reader an example of how her mothers dialect was broken. And, this helps the reader understand why she is discriminated against so much for her dialect.

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It has motivated her.

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We use our language in our culture and ancestors. It's what shaped our attitudes, beliefs, values, and understanding of what is truth

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Sometimes your language doesn't really tells who you really are but it defines you.

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languages help you connect more and share experiences/similarities with others, which can influence how you see things or how you express yourself.

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her childhood connects in her writing in what she writes or how she writes

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i think tans strategy of using direct quotations was to show the reader what her moms English actually sounded to get a better understanding of tans context.

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She did that because she didn't want to lose her mother tongue.

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she's been able to reflect on her experiences in her writing

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It has inspired her

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language is the heart of who we are as a person , and language also depends on how our family interferes with it.

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She able to write a book about writing and about what happens in her life.

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it had an impact on her enough to put it in her writing.

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it had an impact on her enough to put it in her writing.

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Language is apart of who we are and describes us as a person. Where were from what are ethnicity is etc.

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Direct quotations are 'real' language, it's like we can hear the mother talking
Make is very personal, intimate

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It motivated her to write about her experience's with everyone.

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The "different Englishes" show Amy's flexibility -- and makes her smarter somehow (more aware of her world / the world)

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Language = culture. The more languages, the more culture you have... (Vocabulary/expressions, too!)