The Women Warrior is a book by Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior talks
about stories about women. The theme of this story is about gender roles. It is gender roles,
because it shouldn’t define who you are and what you can do. This memoir finds its way onto
many women for the gender issues it raises, especially regarding the role of women in traditional
Chinese society. The Women Warrior talks about stories of women. One of very few themes are
gender roles. The story talks about many women being told to what to be and do. Men and
women have specific jobs they each do. An example is Brave Orchid, who had once been a
doctor in her own country, was forced to toil in sweatshops or become laundry workers. …show more content…
Fa Mu Lan is given "men’s clothes and armor". She later leads an army to the capital, defeats all the
tyrants, and finally returns home triumphant. At this point, she gave up her masculine powers and
privileges and resumes her regular duties as a Chinese woman. Woman who can move between the
public and the private domain so flowingly and who can be so perfectly fluent in both the masculine and
the feminine roles. A woman can replace a man, a father or a husband, if need be and suggests that it is
the fifteen-year-long training that makes one an invincible warrior not the sex of the person.
The last chapter of the book connects of women’s silence and powerlessness with women’s
voice and power. It brings them home as it deals with the silence of Chinese girls growing up in
America. The discovery that "silence had to do with being a Chinese girl". Also and that the
discovery as it also unfolds her agonizing experience of being isolated, which is resulting from
being caught between conflicting cultures. Voice and silence become the leading motifs, they are
the problem of identity. Although her mother finally claims that she had cut her tongue to make
her talk more, and not less, the narrator’s thought was that she had a terrible time talking
about stories about women. The theme of this story is about gender roles. It is gender roles,
because it shouldn’t define who you are and what you can do. This memoir finds its way onto
many women for the gender issues it raises, especially regarding the role of women in traditional
Chinese society. The Women Warrior talks about stories of women. One of very few themes are
gender roles. The story talks about many women being told to what to be and do. Men and
women have specific jobs they each do. An example is Brave Orchid, who had once been a
doctor in her own country, was forced to toil in sweatshops or become laundry workers. …show more content…
Fa Mu Lan is given "men’s clothes and armor". She later leads an army to the capital, defeats all the
tyrants, and finally returns home triumphant. At this point, she gave up her masculine powers and
privileges and resumes her regular duties as a Chinese woman. Woman who can move between the
public and the private domain so flowingly and who can be so perfectly fluent in both the masculine and
the feminine roles. A woman can replace a man, a father or a husband, if need be and suggests that it is
the fifteen-year-long training that makes one an invincible warrior not the sex of the person.
The last chapter of the book connects of women’s silence and powerlessness with women’s
voice and power. It brings them home as it deals with the silence of Chinese girls growing up in
America. The discovery that "silence had to do with being a Chinese girl". Also and that the
discovery as it also unfolds her agonizing experience of being isolated, which is resulting from
being caught between conflicting cultures. Voice and silence become the leading motifs, they are
the problem of identity. Although her mother finally claims that she had cut her tongue to make
her talk more, and not less, the narrator’s thought was that she had a terrible time talking