Maxine Hong Kingston

Rosaura’s felt that she belonged to Luciana’s circle of friends when she was invited to her birthday party; however she reached an epiphany when Senora Ines handed her two dollars rather than a gift bag. Likewise, in the story “On Discovery” by Maxine Hong Kingston Tang Ao arrived to the Land Of Women, clueless of the everyday procedures of women as they try to please the standards of society. Tang Ao eventually perceived the difficulties in achieving beauty when he was forced to undergo the…

hand in hand; it is almost impossible to completely sever one from another. Maxine Hong Kingston, who uses language as her primary vessel for relaying her life as it was in the lieu of two contrasting cultures, understood this, and used it to her advantage. An analyses of Kingston’s The Woman Warrior reveals that she makes the blending of American and Chinese culture evident even in her speech and style. Even though Kingston uses English throughout the book, she does so in a way that emulates…

While industrially similar, China and America have very different social cultures. Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Women” provides me insight with the Chinese culture and how sexual activity is handled. The overall response may have evolved over time, but it is quite interesting seeing a different, cultural response to adultery and misconduct. I wonder why Kingston’s mother fixated her time on telling such a story as if it were her own, and why Kingston’s aunt kept her life secret from her…

Maxine Hong Kingston grew up as a Chinese-American, displaying some of the values of her culture in her works. At the time, it was not unusual to grow up Chinese-American, but they would be the first generation raised with two very different cultures. In China, women often lacked many rights. They were forced into arranged marriages and ended up being housewives for future children. A sense of community was strong in China, and respect for your family was a virtue. In America, women had the…

values, and norms of a group. Therefore, Culture defines our identity, influencing the way we act and learn. In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston is trapped between two identities, to be an obedient housewife or a woman warrior that shatters those cultural expectations. Growing up, Kingston is surrounded by the individualistic and nationalistic nature of the United States but is constantly insulted for being the, “weaker sex.” However, Brave Orchid,…

break tradition, their freedom awaits. Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Alice Walker give us a glimpse into three different families where women are oppressed by the traditions of their male dominated cultures. The common theme connecting “No Name Woman,” “Woman Hollering Creek,” and “Every Day Use,” is that overbearing men are the reason that women cannot have absolute independence in cultures other than America. “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston begins with a story about…

Usha Pathak Professor DeWalt ENGL 1301 – Summer II 26 July 2017 Summary Response In “No Name Woman” Kingston story is about the unnamed woman who killed herself and her baby by jumping into the water in well at China. The Unnamed Woman was accused of child being born after the rape because her husband was out of the country while that happen. When the baby was born, the people from that places destroyed her house making their family miserable and nowhere to live which actually made her lose…

Prompt #1 –Select a quote from Woolf or Walker, and discuss its significance. I choose a poem/book from Virginia Woolf ‘’ A Room of One’s Own’’,. She writes a lot in fiction. Woolf implied if Shakespeare had a sister, does she had the same opportunity as him. Woolf concludes at the end, that even if Shakespeare had a sister ‘’talent as he was’’ she will never be like him. She will never have the same education; she will never have the same opportunities as him and that she will never make as…

Conformity in Chinese and American Society Woman Warrior, written by Maxine Hong Kingston, focuses on the topic of conformity. Throughout the novel, Kingston is forced to conform to both Chinese traditions and American society. Her mother, Brave Orchid, pressures Kingston to conform to Chinese tradition, which is believed to keep her safe and make her a strong Chinese woman. However, Kingston, who is growing up in American society, is confronted with the new American beliefs, offering more…

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…