No Name Woman Summary

China is the oldest civilized nation in the world and most Chinese is religious and practice and follow the rule of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Believing in luck will bring the good fortune and avoiding in bad luck will protest, the family and negative event in the future. Kingston was an author of “No Name Woman” she disclosed the story of her aunt that got pregnant when her husband was away from town for more than a year. She did not know much of her aunt beyond the broad detail of the story from her mother. She revealed the story of unnamed aunt and explained their old customs and traditions in 1924. She is a Chinese American, her father and mother immigrated to the United Stated. Kingston got a warning when she began to have period, her mother started to mention of her aunt and told the unpleasant story why she did suicide. Besides, her mother informed on Kingston that it could happen same things to you and told her not disgrace to the family.
Kingston’s mother said, “You must not tell …show more content…
Some of the villagers were crying, clashing and grinding their teeth, and showing what they were mad and extremely angry. They started rupturing the rice, throwing eggs, mud, and rocks at the house, slaughtering animals, and dripping the blood of their animals, wrenching and destroying the house, and searching her aunt and baby. At the mean time, they did not lock the door; they were peering at the outside and saw some of the people who were their friends and familiar. After a while the villager was left and took some fruits and sugar to bless themselves. At night, her aunt went to the pigsty, and suffered the pain, and delivered the baby herself. Next day they found her body and a baby in the family well. Kingston thought her aunt decided to die with a baby because of unknown father and her baby was useless in their