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Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin?s, Woodchucks provides an interesting and creative perspective into the mind state of those influenced by nazi warfare. What begins as a seemingly humorous cat and mouse hunt, reminiscent of such movie classics as Caddyshack, soon develops into an insatiable lust for blood. Kumin?s descriptive language provides the reader with the insight necessary to understand to the speaker?s psychology as they are driven beyond the boundaries of pacifism. The

Maxine Hong Kingston connecting her family to the story of her no name aunt, Kingston learns about her family secret. In china, 1924 Kinston’s mother begins to explain the mystery in Kingston’s father’s side. Kingston’s father supposedly had only brothers because they made sure not to mention anything about the no name aunt. She killed herself and her new born baby in the family well. Reminiscing back in time Kingston’s mother explains how she suspected the aunt to be pregnant. She remembers one

Maxine Waters: Raising consciousness, not money As one of the most powerful African American women in American politics today, Maxine Waters yields respect from both her allies and adversaries. (Dowd 8/22/83) As a member of the House of Representatives, who holds great command, Ms. Waters has a obligation, one might say a calling, to truly serve her constituency, to fight their struggles, to raise consciousness regarding the state of American society today, and to lend her constituency hope.

When the villagers raided out of discontent, her family “stood together in the middle of [their] house, in the family hall with the pictures and tables of the ancestors around [them], and looked straight ahead” (4). Maxine’s mother is implicating to Maxine that her actions don’t just affect her, but her entire lineage; that the family name is more important to protect than cherishing an individual. A recurring motif in Woman Warrior are ghosts,

Maxine 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

have”(Kingston 2520). In Maxine Kingston’s No Name Woman, there is a clear theme in her short story, and it is found in the minor details of the lines. Kingston is going against her family’s wish and is discussing her aunt. Her family wanted to keep her unnamed aunt a secret, and for a while, Maxine Kingston did. In one of the paragraphs, Kingston compares her aunt to one of the stars. At the end of the short story, though, she apologizes to her aunt for keeping her silent. Although Maxine Kingston’s No Name

Learn from the Stories Having two considerably different cultures can cause a strife with one’s identity. In “No Name Woman,” Maxine Kingston’s mother tells her a story of her aunt that committed adultery which therefore led to her segregation from her own family and villagers. Kingston’s mother asserts that the story should not be told by anyone and the story’s purpose was to strike fear in her daughter. Then, Kingston explores the different scenarios that could have led to her aunt’s suppressed

Maxine Hong Kingston, a brilliant writer, wrote the award winning book The Woman Warrior. This book describes “A Girlhood Among Ghosts” which is Hong Kingston’s life intertwined with morals, analogies, metaphors, conflictions, and a truly relatable struggle: being able to fit in with the world or people around you. Maxine Hong Kingston describes her life in a vague manner, and adds a small amount of fiction that is found in the book in the form of stories, and folktales; these small, but very vital

There are five stories told in “The Women Warrior” by Maxine Kingston. The five stories are all intertwine and goes back and forth writing about the past and the future. Kingston writes this book to share how a Chinese-American grew up in California and how her chaotic life has shaped her to become who she is. This book shows that a woman can do what they want if they believe because of the themes, symbols, and that appear in the story. Maxine Kingston’s first book is about her family. Her mom

In No Name Woman by Maxine Kingston, our author wants to tell us the story of her “nameless” aunt and give her a voice. Her aunt became pregnant by someone other than her husband. No Name Woman wouldn’t tell who the father was, hoping to protect him with her silence, which then turned her into the victim. This No Name Woman has neither a story nor a voice, but by writing about her aunt’s story Kingston gives her No Name aunt the voice that she deserves. For Kingston “the aunt’s real punishment was