Respond to: "Heyoon" and "Mother Tongue"

Heyoon is a private owned pavilion located somewhere in Michigan. Alex, the speaker in the podcast used to go there as a teenager with friends of his. He thinks of himself as a misfit. The place is in the middle of nowhere. To get there someone that has already been there would have to take you. On the way to the Heyoon you would have to go through a few obstacles. First there is a fence that you would have to climb. Also there are a few signs on the way there. The signs state, each in their own way, that you are not welcome here and you need to leave. If you decide not to listen to the signs, like Alex and his friends did you would find how beautiful and peaceful Heyoon is. Years later when Alex grew up he wrote to the owners with the request of interviewing them. At first the owner was not thrilled about this idea but later on he agreed. For Alex this place is almost magical. He would go there to drink with friends and have fun, but at the same time this place was seen as peaceful for him. Sometimes he would go there to only have some deep talk with someone. During the interview the owner did not give a specific reason for the Heyoon to be build but he mentions that for him this is a religious place. It has some element of sacredness to it. This shows that to both the owner and Alex this place is peaceful, beautiful, sacred, and magical. It also to Alex it seems that time does not matter of how he views this place. From the first time he saw it, when he was only 15, to now years later this place is still the same peaceful, quiet place. Even though it is located on a field, in the middle of nowhere Heyoon has saved its magic for years.

This podcast is made in a personal narrative style. Research paper and personal narrative are different from each other but they also have some small similarities. For example to support your claim in both personal narrative and in a research paper you could use an interview as a source. In a personal narrative it is more what happened to you. It is a story from your past. As in a research paper could be anything, and you do not even have to have anything in common but simply interest with the subject in hand. In a personal narrative usually it is a story about a place that has impacted you in some sort of way.

Amy Tan, in her "Mother Tongue" article uses the word englishes to describe the different type of languages she uses in different places when she communicate to different people. Personally I would use a specific type of english in a paper depending on what type of paper I am writing. Most of the times I would try to use english that makes me sound more educated in the specific subject. If the paper is more free and there are a few jokes in it, then I might use something that shows a less serious face. I would also consider what is my audience that is going to read the paper like. Depending on the audience I would try to use english that connects more to them.

Amy describes mainly two types of englishes she uses. One for her writing, and her speeches, and one for communication within her family. In the first one she would sound more grammatically correct, and try to use words which would bring out the importance of her subject. In the second one she would be more mellow. She would not be as concern for her english grammar but more about her tone. the second style is the one she gets from her mother. It is the one she calls "broken" and "limited". She uses this words to describe it not because her mother does not know English but simply because here they do not take under so serious of a consideration the gramatical part in the English language.