Reflective essays explore what the author believes and the of origins of those beliefs. Which sentences in this excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother
where Tan's beliefs came from? (Click on the two sentences that show this)
Tongue" indicate
You should know that my mother's expressive command of English belies how much
she actually understands. She reads the Forbes report, listens
to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her
stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine's books with ease-all kinds of things can't begin to
understand. Yet some of my friends tell me they understand fity percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand eighty to ninety
percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English IS perfectly clear, perfectly
natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as
hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape
the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.