Mary Lynn Brightheart Short Story

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston makes her narration compelling and relatable to the audience through her unique style of storytelling. The ever-present changes in perspective lead one to see how each event eventually affects Kingston. Her comparison of her life to that of Fa Mu Lan brings out the difficulties in her living in America while her mother had grown up in China. This hero myth allows her to connect to those values that Brave Orchid holds which make her so hard on her daughter. The telling of Brave orchid’s talk-stories in first person makes their events more relatable to Kingston, which makes the 4th chapter’s telling in the third person all the more jarring and thought-provoking. All in all, Kingston’s writing style in this novel serves to make it evoke a powerful sense of relatability and understanding of her plight.

The concept of physical war is universally understood while many do not recognize internal struggles as a war within. The wife of bath, Beowulf, Lanval, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight all share a common theme of internal struggle. From a mental war over the kingdoms precedent, to an altering decision on whether knightly virtues are more important than his own life, these characters are battling the ideology of their roles during their time periods, as well as themselves.

“They themselves looked on when, bloody from my foes, I came from the fight where I had bound five, destroyed a family of giants, and at night in the waves slain water-monsters, suffered great pain, avenged an affliction of the Weather-Geats on those who asked for trouble – ground enemies to bits”(8).

I was having some friends over on Friday night. Friday the thirteenth of october to be exact. Me and my four best friends. It was Erick, Jeff, Brady, and Trevor. We made food and watched movies and talked where we were going hunting tomorrow. By midnight, we’d run out of things to do. We were so bored. “Let’s try that Bloody Mary thing,” Trevor said. Erick, was sitting crossed-legged on his sleeping bag, said, “What’s the Bloody Mary thing?”

Queen Elizabeth uses pathos again for a third time by using her gender as a crutch for weakness. Falsely letting the public know that she would gladly fight alongside them, the Queen negates the previous statement by dictating, “I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman.” Although this statement could be looked upon negatively by a woman, it served the purpose of inspiring empathy within the hearts of the soldiers being

The gruesome action of Farquhar’s hanging is broken up by placid descriptions of his wife that convey how “war is grotesque[,] but in truth war is also beauty” (Things

She destroyed someone they all somewhat saw as a hero, which leaves them speechless and wondering what power she

was hurt by an arrow but she returned quickly and leaded the army to win. The rapid victory in New

In the previous paragraph I spoke about an archaeological site, it was at this same location that a woman was also found with a quiver holding around forty arrows and an iron dagger at her side. Out of all the graves found at the dig site, about one out of three of the skeletons, were discovered to be female with wounds that hinted at a past that included many battles.

Throughout the duration of Aletta’s appointment as the Grand Vigil people had disputed whether a woman could bear the attributes mandatory to the survival of the order. Yet, she proved herself a formidable swordsman by adapting her informal Viridian training

After belittling her husband she goes on to bash the man with the sword calling him “as ignorant as dirt” and “o gull”. Her courageousness shines a light on her flawless character and just how devoted she was to her

Chronicles, it was said that women often fought in battle and were apart of the military.

Many women in the Middle ages are not seen as warriors, this title was given to the men. Even though, many women during this time; despite the gender difference, “were included in the ranks of many mercenary and national armies” . These women were fearless fighters and defended their homesteads and country if warranted. Women who took on the role as warriors, were seen in a total different light as “natural women”, they were expected to “abandon their true identities and take on a more ruthless, and masculine role” . In fact, many women began to dress like men in order to fight alongside them in battle. As the times began to change, so did the ways of thinking. As more women began to join the battlefields, “the more they

She pointed the talisman toward them and when she did, the soldiers began to burst in clouds of dust, one by one at first, then in groups. She laughed wildly as the remains of Alaba’s men formed a huge cloud over the entire area. Hundreds dead, all but two soldiers running at breakneck speed in retreat, but it was to no avail, their

that I need you to hear me. Montague felt a power, unlike anything he’d ever felt before, surge within him. He felt like a hundred men. “Unleash!” he roared. Suddenly, Vandagelle flashed and shot a bolt of lightning. It burned through the entire crowd of the incoming enemy. Even the dirt beneath their feet was charred.