Ruisha Yang
The Woman Warrior A novel can be considered as a form of art while it imitates our internal life and experiences in the world or as a crazy telescope that allows us to explore the life of minds. However, the plot is the structure of a novel. As Culler implies, “Aristotle says that plot is the most basic feature of narrative, that good stories must have a beginning, middle, and end, that they gave pleasure because of the rhythm of their ordering...Essentially, though, a plot requires a transformation. There must be an initial situation, a change involving some sort of reversal, and a resolution that marks the change as significant...A mere sequence of events does not make a story. There must be an end relating back to the beginning …show more content…
The book sectioned into five chapters, where each portrays a woman figure along with talk-stories: Kingston’s long-dead aunt in “No Name Woman”; female warrior Fa Mu Lan in “White Tigers”; Brave Orchid, Kingston’s mother in “Shaman”; Moon Orchid, Kingston’s aunt in “At the Western Palace”; Kingston herself at last. The chapters integrated the series of talk-stories with the narrator’s inner self feeling the ache of being split between the two cultures, to show her growth and development of realization. Each chapter carries their own unique meanings, but all cohesive at the same time, mixing the idea of asserting power, femininity, and individual in the patriarchal society with the old traditional Chinese values, talk-stories, and uncertainties in …show more content…
For example, in the chapter “White Tiger,” the traditional Chinese myth about a woman fights in place of her father to save the village contrasts with the narrator’s life in reality showing her implication or understanding of the story. She naively believed through Fa Mu Lan’s heroic struggles, by denying to do chores or giving up her femininity will lead to the recognition and treatment as if she was a boy. Although the outcome differed from her beliefs, she was still unfavored by her mother. The talk-stories throughout the book burdened within the narrator are enigmatic—interpreting clues to make sense of her own
The Woman Warrior A novel can be considered as a form of art while it imitates our internal life and experiences in the world or as a crazy telescope that allows us to explore the life of minds. However, the plot is the structure of a novel. As Culler implies, “Aristotle says that plot is the most basic feature of narrative, that good stories must have a beginning, middle, and end, that they gave pleasure because of the rhythm of their ordering...Essentially, though, a plot requires a transformation. There must be an initial situation, a change involving some sort of reversal, and a resolution that marks the change as significant...A mere sequence of events does not make a story. There must be an end relating back to the beginning …show more content…
The book sectioned into five chapters, where each portrays a woman figure along with talk-stories: Kingston’s long-dead aunt in “No Name Woman”; female warrior Fa Mu Lan in “White Tigers”; Brave Orchid, Kingston’s mother in “Shaman”; Moon Orchid, Kingston’s aunt in “At the Western Palace”; Kingston herself at last. The chapters integrated the series of talk-stories with the narrator’s inner self feeling the ache of being split between the two cultures, to show her growth and development of realization. Each chapter carries their own unique meanings, but all cohesive at the same time, mixing the idea of asserting power, femininity, and individual in the patriarchal society with the old traditional Chinese values, talk-stories, and uncertainties in …show more content…
For example, in the chapter “White Tiger,” the traditional Chinese myth about a woman fights in place of her father to save the village contrasts with the narrator’s life in reality showing her implication or understanding of the story. She naively believed through Fa Mu Lan’s heroic struggles, by denying to do chores or giving up her femininity will lead to the recognition and treatment as if she was a boy. Although the outcome differed from her beliefs, she was still unfavored by her mother. The talk-stories throughout the book burdened within the narrator are enigmatic—interpreting clues to make sense of her own