While reading the article "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan I noticed I was able to relate so well to it. Amy's mother spoke broken english since her first language was Chinese. My mother speaks broken English since Swedish is her first language. I understand everything that Amy said she goes through because I go through the same thing as well. The purpose for Amy writing this article was to prove a point. She didn't fall into her stereotype that since she is Asian she will become a pre-med student or study math. Instead, she did what she wanted and began to write books. She even wrote to her mothers needs so that she could understand. I enjoyed reading this article because Amy sets the tone for this writing as somewhat negative in the beginning by complaining about how she had to always speak for her mother because of her broken english. Towards the end of her writing the tone changes to a more positive one when she writes her fiction in the broken English that her mother speaks regardless of what the critics are going to say.