National Book Award

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.…

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…

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 Kingston’s stories comes from talk-stories that her mother shares with her. The first story is called the “No-Name Woman.” The character is the author’s aunt who kills both herself and her baby by jumping down the family well. The aunt was never brought up in…

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…

Just as Sherman Alexie would relate to that point Jane Franks made in Friday night lights. Because when he was teaching other students to love books as much as he did, many students had “The pages of their notebooks empty...they refused and resisted” (Alexie 136). They didn't seem to care. Just like Sandra Cisneros, she didn't like school, “I wasn't a very bright student. I didn't much like school…”…

INDIAN EDUCATION & THE LESSON(ANALYSIS) 2 My Purpose Statement According to Yagelski (2015) ‘Comparative analysis is not just a manner of comparing two things’. The purpose of this paper is to compare, synthesize and rhetorically analyze the following two articles ‘Indian Education by Sherman Alexie and The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara. We will look at the separate ideas, themes or elements into a coherent new idea while comparing…

Dream? More Like a Nightmare. Bernie Sanders once said “For many, the American dream has become a nightmare”. The past notions that America is country in which people have freedom and the ability to better their lives has died within the last several decades. However, some are still under the belief that the dream lives. This has done nothing but make their lives and the lives of their dependents worse as their identity has become convoluted. The fact the American Dream is nothing but a…

Relationships are a significant part of an individual’s like. The people that make up those relationships, the kinds or sorts of relationships they are, what those relationships are based (the basis for those relationships). They can make an individual’s life in one way or another. Ways never expected, it can be positive or it can be negative. But either way, it presents one with the ability to learn from it whether there be good or bad consequences that stem from it. It’s something to look back…