Indicate the speaker, as well as who is being addressed. ( Note that the speaker may be an omniscient narrator or a character in the narrative who is functioning as a first-person narrator.) Also, state the following: What does the quotation mean? When does it occur in the narrative? How does it relate to the whole narrative, as well to the theme of the narrative?
from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue":
"Lately, I've been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, i have described it to people as "broken" or fractured" English."