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4 pages in length. Any Tan's "Mother Tongue" piece delves into the perceived notion of there being only one right way to speak English and how she is not entirely sure her mother's fractured tongue is any less viable than her cultured approach. Sucheng Chan's "You're Short, Besides," by comparison, utilizes her many so-called social and cultural abnormalities as a way to educate Asians and Americans alike that while she may have been forced to endure considerable hardship, it has not been so overwhelming that it derailed her from making her mark in this world. In short, the authors collectively address the confusion and adaptation derived from reaching critical realizations of sociocultural acceptance and rejection. No additional sources cited.
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speak English and how she is not entirely sure her mothers fractured tongue is any less viable than her cultured approach. Sucheng Chans "Youre Short, Besides," by comparison, utilizes
her many so-called social and cultural abnormalities as a way to educate Asians and Americans alike that while she may have been forced to endure considerable hardship, it has not
been so overwhelming that it derailed her from making her mark in this world. In short, the authors collectively address the confusion and adaptation derived from reaching critical realizations
of sociocultural acceptance and rejection. II. AMY TAN Multilingual people like Tan (2003) capture and utilize language interchangeably without paying much attention to the manner by which they reach
these diverse verbal destinations; only when she was met face-to-face with the reality of her vastly contradictory approach to English given the audience to which she is speaking did she
come to realize her capacity not only to identify with various Englishes but also comprehend them equally as well. Conversations with her mother elicit short, choppy and grammatically incorrect
sentences that use words to illustrate imagery rather than to identify every detail of a given thought like proper English does; when in the company of literary associates and her
readership, her English transforms to what she deems "broken, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness" (Tan, 2003,
p. 274). III. SUCHENG CHAN Pointing out how she has managed to survive in a multicultural society despite being "non-white, female, handicapped...and
short, besides" (p. 447+), Chans (2000) lighthearted yet serious message of shifting "normality" is duly noted. The concept of normality is perhaps one of the most difficult to define
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