Nana’s Blog Post Due 11/29

Ngugi’s argument was that people should write in their own language, no matter how unequal power might be. Once Ngugi mentioned “That thinking made me say no — from now onwards. I’ll be writing in my mother tongue …” For common people are most familiar with his mother tongue. I think the purest thing for a writer is to write whatever they want, not necessarily in their own language, but in whatever language they feel comfortable with. Rushdie is looking at how Hindi relates to English to help children learn Chinese. Because in India. Schools consider English as the main language. So Indian children do not have a strong understanding of their mother tongue. The sentence “The English language’s enormous flexibility and size” emphasizes the importance of English. But in my opinion, any language can be widely spread, not only English. People can write good articles in their mother tongue. For example, as a Chinese, the vocabulary I use when writing in Chinese is naturally more delicate and easy to understand than when writing in English.