mother tongue and idea for literacy narrative

One of the stories I read was Mother Tongue by Amy Tan. This was my favorite out of the three i read. I liked her story so much because it was easy to relate to. In the story she talks about code switching and the different types of the English language she uses. She talks about how she talks around her family compared to the way she would talk is she were giving a long formal speech. She says when she’s around family it’s almost like they are speaking "broken" English but around professionals she uses more punctuation and a larger, more sophisticated vocabulary. I believe everyone could relate to her story in some way. We all change the way we talk or expand our vocabulary depending on who our audience is. I think all around Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue was a great story and very easy to understand.

 

RSD (Reflexive Sympathetic Dystrophy) is a chronic condition characterized by burning pain and abnormalities in the sensory, motor and autonomic nervous systems.

After thinking long and hard about what I would write about for my literacy narrative I believe my best idea is about my mom. Four years ago my family was in Disney world and my mom had an accident. Believe it or not my mom tripped over a piece of carpet that was pulled up in a restaurant. After going through surgery weeks after she was diagnosed with a disease called RSD. The first thing I though was I’m going to lose my mom. As you can imagine anyone would break into tears at this thought. Little did I know I wasn’t going to lose my mom (thank god). Actually come to think about it I had no idea what RSD even meant. This event taught me a lot about RSD and the people that have to go through it. I also learned there is no cure for it and my mom is going to have to deal with it for the rest of her life. Even though this isn’t a positive or happy memory I got good out of it. Learning about RSD helped me to figure out what I can do to make it easier on my mom and learn about the typed of things she’s going to have to experience at one point or another. This subject is very easy for me to talk about and I think it would be easy to write about, let me know what you think!