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Past & Present The book “Krik Krak” written by Edwidge Danticat contains a story of Danticat in the past and how could she became a famous author today. She was born Haiti and a survivor who escaped oversea to the United States. Danticat’s past is painful and horrible but it influenced her present. The Haitian politics repressed certain group of women and the fear surrounded them everyday. To find her own freedom and her rights, Danticat got on board then arrived at New York. The racist weighed

In Maxine Hong Kingston’s “The Woman Warrior”, in chapter 2 “White Tigers” Kingston says that Chinese immigrants say things such as “better to raise geese than girls”. They also say “Chinese executed women who disguised themselves as soldiers or students, no matter how bravely they fought or how high they scored on the examinations”. I argue that in doing this, the texts suggest shockingly, that Chinese immigrants continue to treat woman as if they are worthless, which is why Maxine Hong Kingston

A young Chinese-American girl in the 1950’s would try to break out of her parents' cultural norms and prove to her parents that their thought process is invalid, and doesn’t fit inside the parent’s patriarchal cultural mindset. The young Chinese-American girl we follow throughout the story is, Maxine Hong Kingston, and she believes that women aren’t just to be married off and truly do have a life of their own. The Woman Warrior is a book written by Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a book based on her own

The Woman Warrior is a collection of memoirs written by Chinese-American author and professor, Maxine Hong Kingston. This book depicts the experiences of the Chinese people who emigrated to the United States after the Chinese Communist Revolution by combining her life story with Chinese fables called “talk-stories”. The author leads a difficult life as she tries to find a way to express herself to her unappreciative mother, who berates her for being a soft-spoken girl. Despite the fact Kingston bottles

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American, who has been in distinctions between modern and traditional Chinese societies. Kingston, the narrator, has a negative perspective of Chinese aspects because the society keeps their collectivism inclination. Disregarding individual’s life is the one of the damages of collectivism. In this sense, No Name Woman especially works tackling subjects such as the division of gender role. In No Name Woman, Kingston desolates and reveals woman’s trauma about a hostile

Maxine Kingston wrote The Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Girlhood Amongst Ghosts as a non-fictional story that relates the common Chinese folktales (or “talk stories” as she calls them) she was familiar with from her youth combined with her own personal experiences as a Chinese-American. Each chapter is given to a separate woman who influenced Kingston’s life in a memorable way. The theme of silence and voice comes up frequently throughout the text, but is increasingly evident in the first page, as

In this essay, I decided not to summarize Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior since we have already done that by posting our weekly responses and since it is an open essay; also it might seem too boring for you to read the same thing again. Instead, I wanted to write more on particular subjects that Kingston had talked in the interviews. Watching the video of Kingston’s interview with Josephine Reed at F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference in 2011, gave me deeper understanding and insight

Thesis: The similarities of coming of age tales and how women grow up and are shaped by love, sex, and marriage. (OR MOTHER HOOD AND COMING OF AGE) The Woman Warrior: Insincere standard being help up out of obligation, but hid the fact that her mother loved her from the start. Kingston in The Woman Warrior is largely figuring out what it means for her to be a Chinese-American women by way of considering the lives of great Chinese women before her: her nameless aunt, her mother Brave Orchid, the

In her novel Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston provides insight on the struggle that growing up with dual heritage presents in the understanding of one’s identity. Kingston recalls feelings of frustration when faced with the high expectations she felt she needed to live up to as the daughter of immigrants, who constantly talk-story to her about fantastical and idealized Chinese figures. Kingston, in the face of these expectations, feels conflicted on whether she should strive for success in her

In “No Name Woman”, Maxine Hong Kingston discusses a story her mother shared with her. It is about Kingston’s aunt who, while her husband was in America, became pregnant and committed suicide the day of her illegitimate child’s birth. Also included in the story is a raid, undertaken by neighbors and other villagers, on the aunt’s family and home. In order to fully understand the story, it is necessary to know the historical context. Taking place in 1920s China, the instability, importance of the