Kingston

five women who are related to Maxine Hong Kingston, the author of the book, the first chapter is about her long-dead aunt, a imaginary female warrior who was called Fa Mu Lan who was mentioned in chapter two, Kingston’s mother who was mentioned as Moon Orchid in the third chapter, in the fourth chapter which is about about an emperor who was married to five women, and in chapter five, the last section of the book, talks about Kingston herself. Kingston who is Chinese American writes about women

Hong Kingston is a Chinese author who became successful for her book about women power and the strength of women all over the world. This book inspired many people all over the world. Kingston takes a look further into her family history and learns some important things from it. She learns some things about her aunt that unfortunately commit suicide long ago. Like any person would, Kingston begins to think of different scenarios on what could've caused her to make this decision. When Kingston asks

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston crafts a fictitious memoir of her girlhood among ghosts. The book’s classification as a memoir incited significant debate, and the authenticity of her representation of Chinese Americanism was contended by Asian American scholars and authors. The Woman Warrior is ingenuitive in its manipulation of the autobiographical genre. Kingston integrates the importance of storytelling in the evolution of her identity and relates her method of exploring self-discovery

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 compares herself to Mulan. She just wants

has a strong patriarchy. When talking about marriage, the narrator says that “a synonym for marriage in Chinese is ‘taking a daughter-in-law’” (Kingston, 5). Furthermore, she goes on to speculate whether the fate of her aunt and baby would have been different if the baby was a boy.

superficially seem different is the incident at the drug store when Kingston is mortified at what her mother makes her do. Yet, the ways that they act towards others and themselves exemplifies their similarities at a deeper level. Kingston gains many things from her mother and becomes who she is because of Brave Orchid, "Rather than denying or suppressing the deeply embedded ambivalence her mother arouses in her, Kingston unrelentingly evokes the powerful presence of

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

to men, Kingston viewed them in a different light. She sees women as being equivalent to men, both strong and courageous. In a few stark story, depressing in their own unique way, attempts to disprove the traditional Chinese saying “it’s better to have geese than girls”. The first talk-story told to Kingston by her mother deals with the suicide of one of her aunts, who remains nameless throughout the tale. After

identity really is. Through becoming a background character, participating in anti-cultural behaviors, and adding her own crucial embellishments throughout her mother’s stories, Kingston navigates her own selfness and pieces together a fluid, yet satisfying identity as a storyteller, based on the identities of others. Kingston shifts the traditional autobiographical center of “I” off balance and often makes the narrator almost a background character. In her memoir, she tells the audience about herself

In The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Kingston explores women's silence throughout the memoir. The memoir explores Kingston’s journey from childhood through adulthood in an effort to find her own voice. Kingston tells us the stories that her mother told her as a young child; the reader sees through these stories that the women in China do not have a voice. Brave Orchid (Kingston's mother) is voiceless in America, Brave Orchid does not speak english and feels disconnected from her unfamiliar