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“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.…

Throughout Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: 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…

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.…

I grew up in a three bedroom apartment on the north side of Chicago with six of my family members. My grandmother was an immigrant that came to Chicago with her four children (including my mother) to find a job that would give her and her children a better life, because in the world, money means power and happiness. When I was born, my family told me that I needed to do well in school, go to college, and become rich so I could take care of the rest of my family. They said that my mother was…

“The way of the peaceful warrior” is based in a true story combined with fiction, based on the life of Dan Millman, a book that contains romance, adventure and life lesions. The book begins with the first year of college of Dan, at Berkeley in California. Dan has been a champion gymnast, who wants to be part of the Olympics; always getting great grades; in shape, attractive and popular; and with a wealthy family, but still is something missing in his life. Everything started one night in which…

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…

published a masterpiece of literature in 1976, “The Woman Warrior”. Many people found the reading a bit complex to grab, like why was the aunt is the no name woman? Now I have to admit the literature was a bit miscellaneous but I understood. Each chapter has its own meaning have why it is being told; the answer is in between the lines. Overlooking the reader’s review they raised many logical questions such as: why is the aunt labeled as the no name warrior? Why did the narrator tell extensions…

1975, Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a book that blends a collection of memoirs, an autobiography and a Chinese folk tale. Throughout The Woman Warrior, Kingston reports a complex portrayal of the 20th century experiences of Chinese-Americans living in the U.S in the shadow of the Chinese Revolution. “ White Tigers”, the second chapter, has the feel of a warrior epic. It is drawn from a traditional Chinese myth about a woman who fights in place of her father. It is separated into two completely…

In the first chapter of her book The Woman Warrior – Memoirs of a Girlhood Amongst Ghosts, Kingston narrates the story of a ghost who appears to be her father’s sister (the no name woman) who drowned herself in shame and was soon forgotten, even by her own beloved brother. The author claims that the…

In The Women Warrior, other literary element that would explain the theme of this novel is figurative language like a metaphor. The author explains briefly of a metaphor mentioned when she was little of what Chinese people think of a girls in general. Maxine is a little girl who told her mom she got straight A’s and her mother simply did not care and wanted to tell her a story about a woman named Fa Mu Lan who was a woman warrior and saved her own village in China. Maxine…