Reflective Analysis
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives -Jane Austen.” When reading this quote two women stand out in the minds of readers as women who did not want to be in calm waters, stay with the status quo, and be behind the scenes as men ran the country and were given the best, Maxine Hong Kingston and Mari Sandoz are it. These women went out of their way to point out how women were being treated, their culture’s expectations, and their ability to be just as intelligent as the opposite sex.
In both Sandoz and Kingston’s writings the reader can appreciate the intelligence and bravery of the writers exposing themselves as educated women. Women who are breaking the status quo of being quite, demure, and calm. They show that they are capable of so much more, opening doors to other women writers in the future to do the same. Ed Huntley at Greenwood Press stated in his article “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, that …show more content…
Sandoz used facts, documents, and other informational sources for her book, Love Song to the Plains. She was highly intelligent and wanted to cover both of the views of women and men during the Westward Expansion. Though, her book was not as “feministic” as Kingston’s book. There is a feel of pride for her country and how her fellow man has grown as time has passed into what it is now. Kingston’s book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, has more of an impact on the empathy of the reader. She takes the reader personally into her life growing up, though it is in a fictional kind of way, she melds the world of the Chinese people and the American people into how she finally came to understand both cultures and blend them into a life that would work for
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives -Jane Austen.” When reading this quote two women stand out in the minds of readers as women who did not want to be in calm waters, stay with the status quo, and be behind the scenes as men ran the country and were given the best, Maxine Hong Kingston and Mari Sandoz are it. These women went out of their way to point out how women were being treated, their culture’s expectations, and their ability to be just as intelligent as the opposite sex.
In both Sandoz and Kingston’s writings the reader can appreciate the intelligence and bravery of the writers exposing themselves as educated women. Women who are breaking the status quo of being quite, demure, and calm. They show that they are capable of so much more, opening doors to other women writers in the future to do the same. Ed Huntley at Greenwood Press stated in his article “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, that …show more content…
Sandoz used facts, documents, and other informational sources for her book, Love Song to the Plains. She was highly intelligent and wanted to cover both of the views of women and men during the Westward Expansion. Though, her book was not as “feministic” as Kingston’s book. There is a feel of pride for her country and how her fellow man has grown as time has passed into what it is now. Kingston’s book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, has more of an impact on the empathy of the reader. She takes the reader personally into her life growing up, though it is in a fictional kind of way, she melds the world of the Chinese people and the American people into how she finally came to understand both cultures and blend them into a life that would work for