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    Dragon’s identity Having two identities is like mastering the dragon ways. In Maxine Hong Kingston’s 1976 The Woman Warrior, she retells about her autobiography in a fictional way and greatly magnifies the art of storytelling. Maxine introduces with the story about her unknown aunt and then transitioning to her favorite story about a woman warrior, Fa Mu Lan. Then she explores about her mother’s past, sister, and interaction with herself. She truly connects every part of the story and creates

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    Maxine Kingston, a famous writer whose work is often rooted in her experience as a first-generation Chinese American, wrote pieces that often shed light on how first generation Americans have figured out “how the invisible world the emigrants built around [their] childhoods fit in solid America” (para. 10). In her memoir The Woman Warrior, the first chapter “No Name Woman” involves a cautionary tale meant to discourage young Kingston from engaging in adultery and humiliating the family; the mother

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    There is great plasticity in the self perception and identity of immigrants and even more so in their offspring. The memoir, The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, does a good job in highlighting this statement. Her memoir shows the struggle of the older generation to adapt to American culture after migrating, it shows how the second generation comes to terms with their dual identity, and how their unique perceptions emphasize the gap between the two generations. Thesis tying identity crisis

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    and struggle to live the “American Dream”. Thousands of people come to the U.S. to live a better life for their family. Instead they face racial seclusion, struggle to survive, and consequences of American’s fear. In the memoir, The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, a girl who discloses stories about Chinese myths, families, and events in the U.S. that has shaped her identity. In the historical fiction novel, When the Emperor was Divine, by Julie Otsuka, is about a Japanese American family sent

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    The Unescapable Net: Tradition vs Transformation in Kingston’s Ideology The Woman Warrior, written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston in 1976, blends traditional Chinese folktales and memoir, and portrays the early 20th century Chinese history in a Chinese-American perspective. For Maxine, it seems Chinese “history” means social and cultural constrains from conventional Chinese doctrines, especially regarding the social status of womanhood, the blind collectivism, and superstition in

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    of the story “White Tigers” by Maxine Hong-Kingston is that the story that she shares with the reader is what I believed to be a dream that she had. I thought that this dream was inspired by the times her and her mother spoke their own language, talk story. Talking story is a dialect that transcends our basic comprehension of communication. It is the hybrid of our own language, and the power of storytelling fused upon one another. I thought that Kingston told us this story because it was the best

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    Quest for Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Autobiography, The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography, The Woman Warrior, features a young Chinese-American constantly searching for "an unusual bird" that would serve as her impeccable guide on her quest for individuality (49). Instead of the flawless guide she seeks, Kingston develops under the influence of other teachers who either seem more fallible or less realistic. Dependent upon their guidance, she grows under the influence

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    The Woman Warrior

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    “Beginnings” as Applied to The Woman Warrior The beginning of Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel, The Woman Warrior, introduces various themes that recur throughout the story. Through the anecdotes Kingston shares about her childhood as a Chinese girl growing up in America, she discusses gender inequality and conflict due to a generation gap and a difference in cultures. By starting off with a story that her mother, Brave Orchid, told her about her dead and forgotten aunt, Kingston applies the techniques suggested

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    in text can be interpreted to various different meanings. The Chinese culture in The Woman Warrior embrace silence, as the people see it as being respectable and keeping privacy. Kingston incorporates the archetypal role of silence in The Woman Warrior to present how destructive the quality of silence can be, as it stifles identity and expression. From the beginning of the novel, the main protagonist Kingston is silenced from knowing the truth behind her family’s history. Her mother secretly mentions

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    to convey to their readers. The same is undeniably true within Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir The Woman Warrior, a nonlinear hodgepodge of ghosts, white tiger and tongues. In the traditional roman fleuve, the protagonist strives to reconcile self and society so that they can construct a coherent self and achieve wholeness, in The Woman Warrior however, Kingston cannot reconcile. The fact is, Kingston has internalized so many doctrinal values of the patriarchy, that she incapable of discerning a middle

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