Heyoon and Mother's Tongue

Heyoon was a secret club for teenagers. A select few would be able to drink, smoke, and talk. Alex was initiated into this club when he was 15. Heyoon was the place where Alex, the writer, made a lot of his adolescent memories. For example, Alex kissed his first girlfriend there and often drank with his buddies. Heyoon’s “sacredness” within the town is due to the fact that it is a secret club that a select few has passed the knowledge of the strange location to. The discussion of time is important because it allows us to have a general timeline of everything that is going on. Describing this sacred place, allowed the readers to picture it in their minds and where all these events so important in his adolescence.

The differences between a personal narrative and research paper are the writing mechanisms and the purposes. A personal narrative uses dialogue and focuses more on describing a specific experience in your life that transformed you while a research paper is more focused on researching about other topics. A similarity between a research paper and personal narrative is every successful one focuses on one idea. In a research paper, it is researching a specific question while a personal narrative normally provides a insight.

I change my “englishes” with what I am writing about. If I am writing a personal narrative, I would be more colloquial and use phrases that are easier to understand. It makes my voice penetrate through the essay, which adds to me telling about my experiences. However, if I was trying to write a research paper, I would try to be more distant from my writing. I would try to focus on make my sentences clear and direct. Amy has the English that she uses when she is around her peers and when she is at home with her mother. When she is with her peers, she tends to use more formal sentences than with her mom where she would stop forming sentences. It impacted her life through testing. She found herself more directed towards math because she would receive worse grades due to her uncommon phrasing. In standardized testing, she would get answers wrong because she would think about the analogies differently.