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Language that is either constructive, destructive or both
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Adrian DeSilva E5X-01 Essay # 1 October 7, 2004 Society and the individual use language that is either constructive, destructive or both. Language is used as an instrument of power. This tool is used on a political stand and on a personal level as well. Three works of literature that depict this use of language include "Silence", an except from Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, an essay by George Orwell on "Politics and the English Language", and "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan. Each piece describing the difficulties and constructive ways language is used. Silence by Maxine Hong Kingston is a memoir where she recollects her childhood days where she had a dilemma learning the English language. In Kingston's piece she explains her hardships and how she kept herself secluded from the other children because of her lacking in the English language, which becomes critical. Speech was and still is difficult for Kingston. As a...
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