The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, the narrative investigates numerous sides of the immigrant encounters in the United States. The book focuses not only on those who immigrated to the U.S. from China but preferably on the first generation born in this country. Within the woman in question stories the narrator pulls us into her problems of growing up in an immigrant society and her fight with various aspects of her Chinese heritage: her fear of being sold as a slave if she should return to China, her fear of ghosts, her fear of insanity, and her constant fear of being worthless just because she was born female. I believe each of the sections “No Name Woman”, “White Tigers”, “Shaman”, “At the Western
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Legend says that the woman was a fighter, trained by “an order of fighting monks.” Also, this section investigates Chinese-American individuality in a more self-assured and optimistic nature. Shaman conveys the story of the narrator and gives us a profound understanding of the bond between the two women. The entitlement “Shaman” indicates an individual who acts as a liaison among the physical and spiritual worlds, and who typically has therapeutic abilities. At the Western Palace”, “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe focus on first hand experiences of the narrator rather than on stories that were told to her, so the following discussion of these two sections is much briefer than the discussion of the other sections of the integration of these two women's stories into the narrator's is more direct. "At the Western Palace," tells the story of Brave Orchid's sister Moon Orchid who arrived in the U.S. Roughly around 65 years of age she was unable to adapt to this new world and became insane. "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe," the narrator talks story about her childhood, her problems of adjusting to the American school, her fears that a marriage is being arranged for her, her guilt over her breaches of only partially understood Chinese customs, her embarrassments over her mother's Chinese behavior in the American community, and her inability to tell the difference between "true stories" and "just stories" when her mother
Legend says that the woman was a fighter, trained by “an order of fighting monks.” Also, this section investigates Chinese-American individuality in a more self-assured and optimistic nature. Shaman conveys the story of the narrator and gives us a profound understanding of the bond between the two women. The entitlement “Shaman” indicates an individual who acts as a liaison among the physical and spiritual worlds, and who typically has therapeutic abilities. At the Western Palace”, “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe focus on first hand experiences of the narrator rather than on stories that were told to her, so the following discussion of these two sections is much briefer than the discussion of the other sections of the integration of these two women's stories into the narrator's is more direct. "At the Western Palace," tells the story of Brave Orchid's sister Moon Orchid who arrived in the U.S. Roughly around 65 years of age she was unable to adapt to this new world and became insane. "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe," the narrator talks story about her childhood, her problems of adjusting to the American school, her fears that a marriage is being arranged for her, her guilt over her breaches of only partially understood Chinese customs, her embarrassments over her mother's Chinese behavior in the American community, and her inability to tell the difference between "true stories" and "just stories" when her mother