Arrange for copies of the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. The essay is widely anthologized. It was originally published in The Threepenny Review in 1990.Click to see full answer. Likewise, why did Amy Tan write mother tongue?The primary purpose of Tan’s “Mother Tongue” is to orient the readers about the author’s intepretation of differentiating Standard English and broken English. Another purpose of writing such book is the fact that Amy Tan has spent much of her time in America, but she was born in China.Beside above, who is the audience of mother tongue by Amy Tan? In my personal opinion, the audiences of Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” are two groups of people: One is the group of Asian Americans who might have felt the same way as she had, that is, who might have thought that their Asian parents use ‘broken’ or ‘fractured’ English and felt ashamed of their Englsih. Then, what is the main idea of Amy Tan’s mother tongue? The main idea of Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” is the limitations that imperfect English can impose in society and the richness that such English can bring to writing. Tan elaborates this idea by scrutinizing her mother’s language, her own use of English and society’s response to different people’s English usage.When did Amy Tan start writing?Amy Tan is a Chinese American writer and novelist. In 1985, she wrote the story “Rules of the Game,” which was the foundation for her first novel. The book explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters.