Alex Kingston

exercise in catharsis the author utilizes to deescalate the tension between herself and her mother. Kingston displays in a “A Song for A Barbarian Reed Pipe, a story of a displaced mother raising her children in a culture and language different than that of her homeland when she begins, “Here is a story my mother told me, not when I was young, but recently, when I told her I also talk story.” (Kingston 206). Being the focus of the story, character Ts’ai Yen represents the plight of both the…

Genji’s Future Love Within The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, chapter three titled “Lavender” stands out to encompass many Chinese ideals that help further understand their history and way of life. Throughout the entirety of chapter three, Genji develops a deep interest for a young girl named Murasaki, and the chapter sheds insight on the chase of women and indirectness. In order to fully understand Shikibu’s claims throughout the chapter, it is imperative to unpack the details within the…

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, the narrative investigates numerous sides of the immigrant encounters in the United States. The book focuses not only on those who immigrated to the U.S. from China but preferably on the first generation born in this country. Within the woman in question stories the narrator pulls us into her problems of growing up in an immigrant society and her fight with various aspects of her Chinese heritage: her fear of being…

Kingston measures her success against her mother’s tale of a woman who learns the ways of a warrior and grows up to save her village; and feels dissatisfied with her achievements due to the unattainable greatness she strives for. While Kingston is growing up, her mother tells her stories of the past, and paint a picture of the warriors that walked before her. Growing up, she looked up to the legendary heroine, the woman warrior, who saved her village; bringing greatness to herself, and pride to…

Sojourner Truth was one of the few women to take a white man to court at the time. She went through countless beating as a child for not learning english. She had her feet frose in the winter a s punishment. She has marks from a severe beating for no reason. Truth endored and accomplished many things throughout her life like being separated from her family, cruel punishment, and fighting for the rights of others Sojourner Truth was separated from friends and family throughout her early life.…

Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, there is focus on repression, silence, and obedience. Kingston weaves her story through five small tales that show the expectation of Chinese and Chinese American women. With a focus on the tale of the “No Name Woman,” the plight of Kingston and her family is exposed, as is the years of Chinese oppression. Through the tale of the “No Name Woman” in The Woman Warrior, Kingston reveals her own desire to be sexually free, but unable to allow herself such…

Isabelle Baumfree was born into slavery in Ulster, New York, 1797. She was one of 12 kids in her family. When she was 46 she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. Her parents were James and Sojourner Truth. She mainly spoke dutch. The family’s owner was Colonel Hardenbergh. Later Sojourner was sold to John Neely a slave owner know to be violent. At the Neely farm most people called her Belle. Sojourner married a man named Robert from a neighboring farm. They had two daughters.…

Through The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston recounts on her life as well as her family’s past. Her cultural background calls for many unheard of customs and stories. Kingston’s mother teaches her daughter lessons through stories to show the importance of a message. Both death and ghosts reappear throughout the memoir and how ghosts never die. Kingston describes how revenge is a driving force for many actions throughout the memoir and how death seems to be answer to all issues but is not.…

a tragic end. Kingston spends most of her time bordering on the line between fact and fiction, making the readers journey through the story quite complicated. The author is amazing at illustrating what a struggle it is for Maxine to believe certain things about her aunt, often debating the distinction between accuracy and personal experience. The story not only describes the aunt’s struggle but also paves the way for her niece to help sort out her often confusing emotions. Kingston becomes a…

Yuchin is the unrealistic character of The Bane of the Internet, a short story written by Ha Jin. This story has an almost humorous tone as two sisters, one who lives in China and the other in New York, communicate with each other. This character and her older sister wrote and sent each other letters via the postal service as their main means of communication until they discovered email. The name of the older sister is unknown but this story is told through her point of view. The narrator is…