Caucasian Chalk Circle Essay

In the memoir The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston writes about her experiences as a Chinese American growing up in the United States. Although the value of women differ in China and America, they are still seen as inferior in both counties. Kingston shows her enmity toward the way females are viewed in Chinese culture through the use of talk stories, comparison, and personal experiences. Kingston incorporates the use of talk-stories into her writing as a technique to show how society views…

In the book Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Kingston 's mother Brave Orchid tells many stories about her past that she believes have lessons behind them, lessons that Kingston should learn from and can help shape her. Her mother wants Kingston to follow the role of a Chinese woman. Brave Orchid believes Kingston should learn something from the stories and in some cases not do what was done. While telling these stories she tells Kingston what she should know about them to shape her into…

“Barbara has written many other books that have awards. She is the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller The Worst Years of Our Lives, as well as Blood Rites and Fear of Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.” (Back cover of the Nickel and Dimed online book by Barbara Ehrenreich) In the book Nickel and Dimed the author decided to attempt a test to figure out if it is possible to live on minimum wage. The author had gone through quite a…

The Woman Warrior Critique In The Woman Warrior, the author, Maxine Hong Kingston, uses stories that focus on five female characters. These stories are used to depict her experience as a Chinese-American and the cultural aspects of both her past and present. Kingston uses themes, motifs and talk-stories to deliver her purpose to the audience. Her use of literary or stylistic devices in the book reveal an in depth portrayal of Chinese-American society. Each of the female characters of…

Clair Rosengren Honors Global Literature - Block 3 Ann Skemp-Cook 12 October 2015 The Self Discovery of A Woman Warrior In Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts, Kingston searches for her identity as an individual, separate from her family’s traditional Chinese culture. Throughout her memoir Kingston incorporates the stories her mother told her in her as a young girl, such as Fa Mu Lan and No Name Woman, with the purpose of solidifying her identity as a…

Maxine Hong Kingston shows that one can form an identity by breaking silence in The Woman Warrior; Kingston develops this theme through different talk-stories stories her mother tells her. Throughout The Woman Warrior, Kingston gradually finds her own identity by examining heavily weighted talk-stories. Through these stories told to her by her mother and her aunt, she is able to express a part of her which her own experiences cannot explain as a Chinese-American female. Convinced by her mother’s…

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…

“Conception: The Origins of a Story” as Applied to The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior depicts the hardships Kingston faces as she attempts to balance the culture of the country in which she resides, America, and the culture of her home country, China. This struggle is shown by Kingston’s account of various parts of her childhood, which shape who she is. Rather than simply a list of Kingston’s experiences, The Woman Warrior is a novel with broad social implications.…

Leo Braudy, born June 11, 194, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Braudy received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1963, his M.A also in 1963 and his Ph.D from Yale University in 1974. His main course of study was 17th-18th century English Literature, film and criticism as well as American Culture. William Kurtz Wimsatt and Robert Penn Warren were both professors of history during Braudy’s time at Yale and are co-authors of Literary Criticism: A Short Story. With criticism being a main course of…

From beginning as a waitress, to a lifeguard, to a poetry teacher for prisoners, and then to being named one of the Most Beautiful People, author Louise Erdrich has become an inspiring American novelist for Native Americans all over the country (Fun Facts About Louise). Louise Erdrich’s novels feature Native American characters and settings. Highly encouraged by her parents, she begins writing poems, but later will have made novels, that like Tracks, that truly do make her an American author.…