1. What are the four things that Tan says that the power of language evokes? (4pts)
    2. What is your perspective on what Tan means when she says she uses “all the Englishness
    3. When Tan was giving a talk to a large group of people, what did she say was one major difference that made the “whole talk sound wrong”? Explain in detail. (5pts)
    4. What is the one common denominator that runs through every experience Tan writes about in the reading that makes her suddenly aware or “conscious of the English” she was using? (5pts)
    5. Explain how Tan describes the type of language she uses with her mother and her husband. (5 pts.)
    6. If you had to describe to someone the type of “English” that Tan’s mother spoke based on the example that the author shares at the bottom of pg. 225, how would you describe it to someone in comparison to standard English? Be detailed. (5 pts)
    7. Describe what Tan’s perspective is on her own mother’s English (226) as opposed to how she views it through a stranger’s eyes where she begins, “Lately, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks…” and to the end of the page (226). (5 pts)
  2. In Tan’s narrative about the experience during the CAT scan, what does that say about many people’s views of individuals that speak broken English and how they are treated as opposed to native speakers? (5pts)
    9. How does Tan say that her mother’s English may have affected her success in life? (5 pts)
    10. What did Tan choose to do to rebel against the Asian stereotypes when she entered college? (2 pts)
    11. Who became Tan’s audience for her stories as she wrote them and WHY? (5 pts)
    12. What did Tan want to capture in her stories? (3 pts)
    13. After she finished reading Tan’s first book, her mother told her it was “so easy to read.” WHY? (5 pts)