Readers sometimes do not question why the author uses certain word styles and they simply don 't know that they use it for a reason like explaining the theme. A memoir is a great example of this when it comes to using many literary elements that explain the author 's theme. Anything the author writes in literature has a purpose and it should be accounted for no matter what. The author of the book is a Chinese woman whose name is Maxine Hong Kingston and her book is a memoir. This book is essentially about the author’s life in America and she uses elements of literature throughout her book to explain events that occurred. Kingston uses many literary elements such as conflict, figurative language, diction, symbols, and irony to express women not being treated equally compared to men.
The theme is illustrated using many literal elements throughout the novel and one that will be discussed in particular is conflict. The author explains a story about a woman named Moon …show more content…
In The Women Warrior, other literary element that would explain the theme of this novel is figurative language like a metaphor. The author explains briefly of a metaphor mentioned when she was little of what Chinese people think of a girls in general. Maxine is a little girl who told her mom she got straight A’s and her mother simply did not care and wanted to tell her a story about a woman named Fa Mu Lan who was a woman warrior and saved her own village in China. Maxine sometimes fell on the floor and had a tantrum when one of the emigrant villagers or even her parents said “Feeding girls is feeding cowbirds” (Kingston, 46). Maxine is using a metaphor comparing a cowbird to a girl and saying how in Chinese culture in general girls are seen as. In Chinese culture, birds are more profitable than girls and figurative language can go on to explain more about women not being equal to
The theme is illustrated using many literal elements throughout the novel and one that will be discussed in particular is conflict. The author explains a story about a woman named Moon …show more content…
In The Women Warrior, other literary element that would explain the theme of this novel is figurative language like a metaphor. The author explains briefly of a metaphor mentioned when she was little of what Chinese people think of a girls in general. Maxine is a little girl who told her mom she got straight A’s and her mother simply did not care and wanted to tell her a story about a woman named Fa Mu Lan who was a woman warrior and saved her own village in China. Maxine sometimes fell on the floor and had a tantrum when one of the emigrant villagers or even her parents said “Feeding girls is feeding cowbirds” (Kingston, 46). Maxine is using a metaphor comparing a cowbird to a girl and saying how in Chinese culture in general girls are seen as. In Chinese culture, birds are more profitable than girls and figurative language can go on to explain more about women not being equal to