A Warrior Woman In Congo

While this book could be considered very academic, I considered it to be a leisurely read because it was so well written by Kerber. The passion behind the authors want to reveal this unknown historical event of what Kerber refers to as, “ The Womens’ War”, makes the book inspirational. The true meaning of the term “Republican Motherhood”, made the word radicalism come to live in this historical setting. In result of these women changing and breaking the wall of a traditional role, they are finally accepted not just as domestic creatures, but as capable partners to create virtuous citizens. It is an empowering book that opens the reader’s eyes to the one – sided history that previous to this book had been the only text by historians

These expectations increased when she was in the presence of “great power, [her] mother talking story” (20). In one particular situation, the narrator recalls her mother singing about Fa Mu Lan, the woman warrior. Although her mother expected her daughter to become a wife or a slave, the narrator had a different idea; she would “grow up a woman warrior” (20). As a young girl, she said that she “couldn’t tell where the stories left off and the dreams began” (19). This is the case in “White Tigers.” The narrator’s dream-state takes readers into the mind of a girl who attempts to please her mother and entire family by becoming a woman warrior. This is possibly an attempt to subside much of the harsh ridicule she receives from her mother due to cultural differences. Although this is a key factor in her early childhood, she learns to block out these criticisms as she grows older.

The short story presents women as aware but misunderstood by men through use of narrative point of view. In society women are usually seen as inferior to men, and therefore often don’t get the acknowledgement they deserve. “The women held their secrets because when they mentioned it to their husbands or brothers they were laughed at….Instead of sympathy, the husbands and brothers now had a secret weapon”. This shows that women did not share their fears as it gave others ideas to torment them further. Women in the short story are also shown to be fully aware of the boy’s behaviour early on in the story. “The men of his home town said, but how

The author shows a great example of the power these men had against these women in the village. In the time period this story took place, it was amazing to the author to witness that gender inequality was still a very big issue in some places. The author described how shocked she was when she found out that these women were not allowed to

A warrior is recognized as sonmeone who battles for his/her beliefs. Even after receiving mortal wounds many times, such a person never leaves the battlefield. However, the inspiring and metaphorical idea of a warrior can certainly extend beyond the actual battlefield, and into the universal battle of living life. A woman must face this world like a warrior. She must endure the pain of a past that oppressed her, the adversity of a present that is only beginning to understand her, and a future that will continuously test her. From the beginning of time, Native American women have been a driving force in their cultures, retaining their immense strength throughout

The memoir, The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, is about Maxine’s childhood in America after her mother moved to America from China. The author, Maxine Hong Kingston, talks about Brave Orchid, Maxine’s mother, to show that extrinsic factors influenced Maxine’s ability to become a woman warrior. The first extrinsic factor that is significant is American and Chinese culture. This impacts Maxine Hong Kingston’s ability to be a warrior because the cultures are very different and can change her opinions on people, “ghosts”, and herself. To start off, in the first chapter, “No Name Woman”, Brave Orchid tells Maxine a story about Maxine’s aunt who is the No Name Woman.

The warrior within “Change the rules of the game, girl, and they might not like it so much”,(127). This is what grandma india told Melba to do after she explains the hardships that she faces day in and day out. To put on a friendly fake smile and thank them for their wrong doings as a compliment or gift to confused or to lessen the pleasure that the children get form torturing her. Melba Pattillo Beals is the author and protagonist of her autobiography, Warriors Don't Cry. She faces the large word that is integration, integrating into Central high.

Maxine Kingston in “The Women Warrior” presents a traditional Chinese society that anticipates women not to decide what is best for them all by themselves. Kingston creates a woman who goes beyond this ritual culture constraint and who take up

The theme of “voiceless woman” throughout the book “the woman warrior” is of great importance. Maxine Kingston narrates several stories in which gives clear examples on how woman in her family are diminished and silenced by Chinese culture. The author not only provides a voice for herself but also for other women in her family and in her community that did not had the opportunity to speak out and tell their stories.

Kingston begins The Woman Warrior by writing a story which started with her mother insisting that she “must not tell anyone...what I am about to tell you.” (Kingston 3). Kingston’s first written words are a defiance of this silencing. Silence is a motif that permeates the entirety of The Woman Warrior; Kingston

As soon as she arrived in Congo, Lisa began searching for rape victims and interviewing them. They were hesitant to share their experiences with her at first, but as she grew closer to them and told them that she herself is also a rape victim, the silence started to disappear. The survivors started sharing some rather disturbing stories about how they were raped and tortured. Many of the survivors state that their genitalia have been mutilated. They say that soldiers inserted wooden branches into their vaginas, and one was even forced to sit on burning coals, completely burning her anus and rectum. Many of the women are forced to spend the rest of their lives with incontinence due to fistulas, which are ruptures and tears to the walls of their

Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior is a series of narrations, vividly recalling stories she has heard throughout her life. These stories clearly depict the oppression of woman in Chinese society. Even though women in Chinese Society traditionally might be considered subservient to men, Kingston viewed them in a different light. She sees women as being equivalent to men, both strong and courageous.

Black diamond was a child when her family was killed and she was raped. She escaped and joined fighting in the Liberian Civil War on behalf of the LURD soldiers. She took a chance to take control of her life, as does The Girl, and joined the army in fear of being harmed again and believed that if she were a soldier and had a gun that nothing like that would happen again. She experienced a traumatic moment and decided to do everything in her power to not allow it to happen again, just as The Girl did after she was raped by the CO. Black Diamond’s story allows a reader to analyze how war affects people psychologically and what it leads them to do, no matter how morally unjust, but out of fear for their own lives. War affects so many women because of men's belief that it is right to use their ranking in the society to rape and take advantage of any woman they choose. The women have no way of knowing what is coming next and on a day to day basis and are at the mercy of men who do not see them as people, do not call them by their names, and do not see them as human. The constant fear is the most probable reason for joining a cause, despite one’s morality, that will potentially take away some of that fear of the unknown. The Girl is taking control of her life, like Maima, and is not willing to partake in a lifestyle of living in fear, like Helena’s, where she takes the backseat and has to find ways to make the

Women are viewed by Marlow as ignorant little creatures above the press of imperialism—completely innocent, but entirely unaware.

Marlow almost immediately dismisses women by characterizing an interaction with his aunt by saying that women as a whole are “out of touch with truth” and that “they live in a world of their own” (Conrad 13). Even though Marlow’s aunt got him a job at the company and is the only reason he journeyed to Congo in the first place, he looks down upon her, perhaps out of his own insecurity. Even though he questions the sense of women, his story is anything but reliable, being described as a