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    The Woman Warrior confronting the Baron and killing him as a woman, inspires Kingston to embrace her own female identity. Kingston recalls Fa Mu Lan’s intention to kill the Baron to avenge her village, but first reveals herself which inspires Kingston. Kingston state’s, “You’ve done this,’ I said, and ripped off my shirt to show him my back. ‘You are responsible for this.’ When I saw his startled eyes at my breasts, I slashed him across the face and on the second stroke cut off his head.”…

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    In The Woman Warrior, Kingston develops the image of China placing restrictive binds around her feet in order to illustrate how even though her family has been separated from China for many years, the Chinese culture and ideals restricts Kingston's rights as a woman. Since Kingston's birth after Kingston's mom, Brave Orchid, moved to America she has held high expectations for her daughter to accomplish many things while all the while juxtaposing her own stories with ancestral tales and duties of…

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    memoir is a great example of this when it comes to using many literary elements that explain the author 's theme. Anything the author writes in literature has a purpose and it should be accounted for no matter what. The author of the book is a Chinese woman whose name is Maxine Hong Kingston and her book is a memoir. This book is essentially about the author’s life in America and she uses elements of literature throughout her book to explain events that occurred. Kingston uses many literary…

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    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…

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    Mountains are an important symbol throughout The Woman Warrior; therefore, I chose a Chinese painting called Summer Mountains. Mountains can symbolize obstacles, progression, loneliness, and isolation. In Summer Mountains, there are various mountains of different sizes; similarly, to how mountains take on different meanings throughout The Woman Warrior. For example, mountains first appear in the novel when Kingston’s mother mentions the Gold Mountains. The Gold Mountains refers specifically to…

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    Ruisha Yang The Woman Warrior A novel can be considered as a form of art while it imitates our internal life and experiences in the world or as a crazy telescope that allows us to explore the life of minds. However, the plot is the structure of a novel. As Culler implies, “Aristotle says that plot is the most basic feature of narrative, that good stories must have a beginning, middle, and end, that they gave pleasure because of the rhythm of their ordering...Essentially, though, a plot requires…

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    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…

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    The Women Warrior is a book by Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior talks about stories about women. The theme of this story is about gender roles. It is gender roles, because it shouldn’t define who you are and what you can do. This memoir finds its way onto many women for the gender issues it raises, especially regarding the role of women in traditional Chinese society. The Women Warrior talks about stories of women. One of very few themes are gender roles. The story…

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    The finality of Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir, The Woman Warrior, concludes with the chapter titled, “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe.” In this chapter, Kingston retells the story of her frustrations with her mother and the silent girl growing up and concludes with a story about the mythical poetess Ts’ai Yen. Combining both her mother’s talk-story about Kingston’s grandmother, who believed her family could succumb to no harm so long as they continued to attend plays, and the story of Ts’ai Yen…

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    When first receiving the rubric for The Woman Warrior writing assignment, I was appalled. Not that the book didn’t peek my interest and prove fascinating. I just loathed the idea. This book to me is a giant metaphor wrapped in metaphorical bacon. The problem I face with metaphors isn’t that I don’t understand them; I believe metaphors are more personal than we give them credit. I know that the way I perceive a certain metaphor is totally, indisputably and irrevocably different than the way…

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