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The author, Amy Tan correlates the power of language. In her writing she describe how her mother were being treated since she couldn't speak English as everybody else. Is was being mistreated since people didn't think she was well educated. Tan wanted to make sure that people knew that her mother can express herself through her English. That her English is the same as everybody else.

Essay Technique

1. Pathos

2. Imagery

3. Diction

4. Allusion

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How does your family influence your language?

Why does she believe that her mother can express herself freely like everybody else?

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"The intersection of memory upon the imagination"
I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language-- the way it can revoke an emotion, visual image, a complex idea, or simple truth

The same was true with the word analogies, pairs of words in which you were supposed to find some sort of  logical, semantic relationships.

It has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew up with.

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In the essay the language that is used is refereed to broken English. In the essay it explains how you use different language in different situations. Power and language are related because a as you speak different Englishes it determines how much power you have.

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The Language of intimacy is basically how a person begins to develop a way of speaking through how their family talks. The family impacts the language a person uses by the words they use and how they use them coming from the family. The tone might also come from the family.