The Woman Warrior

In The Woman Warrior, Kingston develops the image of The Warrior as a protector, in order to illustrate a connection between being a Warrior in battle, and being a Warrior fighting to protect the Chinese traditions in a place away from home. While Kingston is in America, she feels as if everyone else there who is not a part of her culture is looking from outside a window at them. She feels like the American culture does not accept others, and you must assimilate into their culture in order to…

The last two chapter of “The woman warrior” are interesting and conflicting each other at the same time. They are conflicting each other because Kingston wasn’t involved in the main events where the stories all about her mother Brave Orchid and her aunt Moon Orchid but the last chapter most of it was about Kingston’s own stories and thoughts. It is interesting because Kingston in “At the Western Palace” where she wasn’t part of the major clashes of this chapter, but at the same time she was part…

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 with “When my mother was pregnant with…

In The Woman Warrior, Kingston projects her anger onto the young, quiet girl from her Chinese school in order to illustrate the silence Kingston experienced and how she does not want the little girl to experience the same. As a child, Kingston's mother cut her tongue so she would not be reluctant to speak and move her tongue in any language, which only makes things worse for Kingston because she is not able to speak normally in class. When Kingston found out she had to talk in school, it became…

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, the narrative investigates numerous sides of the immigrant encounters in the United States. The book focuses not only on those who immigrated to the U.S. from China but preferably on the first generation born in this country. Within the woman in question stories the narrator pulls us into her problems of growing up in an immigrant society and her fight with various aspects of her Chinese heritage: her fear of being…

cultural roots and sorts their placement within her own life. In the memoir, envisionments of various reoccurring, paradoxical female figures: primarily Brave Orchid, The No Name Woman, and Fa Mu Lan, serve as “talk-story” teachings that are all fundamental in Kingston’s development to becoming an actual “woman warrior”.…

By reading the novel, the audience enters the mythical world of Kingston’s Chinese heritage as it crashes into the pragmatic and concrete world of the author’s American formative years. The Woman Warrior displays the various ways in which language and cultural norms create expectations and establish limitations upon immigrants, naturalized citizens, and even mythological characters. Their lives, told through talk stories, reflects not only the…

the American culture is formed around speaking up and being different. The American culture differs in many ways from the Asian culture; the Chinese culture values family and traditional roles, while Americans value individuality. In the novel Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, the protagonist, Maxine, struggles to adapt to the surrounding American culture as she grows up in a family that follows traditional Chinese culture. The clashing of cultures causes Maxine to question her identity 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…

In Amy Tan’s essay, Mother Tongue, Tan discusses her struggles growing up as an Asian-American born to Chinese immigrants. She examines certain aspects of the language she speaks and writes, against the language her mother speaks and writes. Amy has a keen grip on “proper” English, most likely due to her being raised in America. Alternatively, Tan’s mother speaks in fragments of English due to her being an immigrant who fled China’s Cultural Revolution (Amy, 1990). Tan realises her different…