Amy Tan who speaks English very well and has developed her own English besides what she speaks with her mom. She and her husband have made it an intimate language or them. Amy’s mom’s struggle with “perfect American English; has most definitely been a burden for Amy. she has been forced to take care of people who don’t treat her mom fairly. As she does this to protect her mom she at times turns red from being uncomfortable Amy sees writing as a way to portray a story with imagery and feelings. Amy feels like her mom does that perfectly even though sometimes people try to make it seem like they completely can’t understand her mother. Amy prides herself on being able to have that shift between the English she speaks with her mom and the English she writes with. Amy took the statics of Asians typically being better at math and science and threw it out of the window. She decided to Major in English when she started college and only got better from there. She would get the 60s or 70s on reading and writing assessments but is flourishing with her English. Ss the passion of writing grew for Amy she was more clearly seeing how “broken’ her mom’s English was. Amy did not like people referring to her mom’s English as broken, as if it had to be fixed. Amy would still support her mom. She was able to understand her completely and still understand and feel her mom’s feelings. Amy is just perfecting her craft of English but to her, her mom’s English is perfect.