Maxine Hong Kingston

it is purely the students’ fault for not making his situation clear; school is a place that can result in non-physical danger and silence. In the essay “Tongue-Tied”, written by another American writer Maxine Hong Kingston, she shows relevant similarities with Rodriguez’ experience at school. Maxine also felt the need to stay silent throughout school. Based on what I understand from reading all three essays, I would encourage that all teachers wanting to avoid this type of schooling should;…

Double-Consciousness The concept of “Double-Consciousness” is typically known for being a common experience among the black community in America. When broken down, double-consciousness can be explained as the feeling of one’s identity, but split into different parts, instead of one whole identity. Dubois’ explanation of this concept is “One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged…

memoirs, I can tell you a little bit about what to expect. As far as structure, it probably isn’t going to be like a text. On the contrary, it can be like a novel where each chapter can tell its own story, such as the variation of tales told by Maxine Hong Kingston in her book The Woman Warrior; however, you could also have a book completely with character development and chapters that culminate to an overall story, such as in The Autobiography of Malcolm X which starts at the very beginning…

Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston reflect on experiences in the authors’ lives that have impacted their transition into womanhood. Kaysen has borderline personality disorder and recounts her struggle with mental illness during the time she spends at a mental institution when she was 18 years old. Kingston is Chinese-American and she reflects on her battles with her cultural identity in her coming-of-age memoir. Both Kingston and Kaysen include different types of…

In discussing the legacy and impact of Le Ly Hayslip and the overall responsibility of Asian American authors in depicting Asian Americans in literature, specific ideas about gender and sexuality frame such discussions. On one side specifically among Asian American women, there is great criticism against the backlash and condemnation that was levelled against Le Ly Haislip’s When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging due to such attacks being sexist and…

The term “Asian” was originally used to define and label everyone that was not white, and by definition, the term generalizes people of vastly different backgrounds, histories, languages, and religions all into one incorrect misappropriately defined category. The term Asian itself is referred to as a race, yet a race is associated with biology. If people are of the same race, the may share the same ancestry or have similar physical characteristics, whereas the term ethnicity is used to refer to…

accept the quest. However, the feminine journey differs, instead the protagonist determines there is something about their life that must change, and only they themselves, through their own free will, can resolve it. Characters such as Alba, Fa Mulan/ Kingston, and Rahel take the challenge to tackle their deepest psychological issues while simultaneously confronting the patriarchy and political corruption. These female authors successfully preserve the female voice and challenge patriarchal…

easier to cope if we believe differently. I found this tale sad mostly because they pretended that the woman never existed. As though she had done something so wrong she didn’t deserve to be alive. I can’t find peace in that and I understand why Maxine couldn’t either. “”You must not tell anyone,” My mother said,” what I am about to tell you. In china, your father has a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she…

can also be seen as ‘helpful or good’ such as the ancestral ghosts that look after the living and everyday ghosts that do what everyday ghosts do, such as the "newsboy ghost”, clearly defining these ghosts as a normal part of everyday life. Even Kingston after hearing a great number of her mother’s talk-stories is unable to decipher what’s real from what’s imagined, for example the question as to whether her mother really had a mentally retarded boy follow her around or whether, or is he just…

Have you ever seeing people vandalizing on a public transportation, and you were just sitting there doing nothing about it? I have and I regret my decision of silence. In the City of San Francisco, vandalism is a form of urban art, but according to SF Public Work, it cost around 20 million annually to recover the damage from vandalism. As a rider of the public transportation, our bus fee was raised several times because of vandalism. Why did I stay silence on the bus? I could have stopped the…