The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior In a literature world, some authors like to make up stories for fiction, and some authors collect facts to document information for non-fiction. As times had passed, there were many authors who would like to change their works, specifically non-fiction, a little bit by being creative, either by exaggerating the truth or creating an unnamed narrator based on the author himself or herself. There were two bestselling novels, We the Animals by Justin Torres and The Woman Warrior by

In Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, she reflects on the lives of five women, one of them being herself. She compares herself with the other women. She realizes the lessons that they teach and how she can apply them to her own life. The first woman that Kingston mentions is her aunt. She had committed adultery and gotten pregnant. The day that she gave birth, the village raided the family’s home. Her family disowned and ignored her. She drowned herself and the baby in the family water well

Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston's novel, The Woman Warrior is a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories that chronicles her childhood in California. It gives the reader a feeling of how it feels like to be a Chinese American girl growing up with traditional parents in a world that is quite different from

In the novel The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston uses ghosts to represent a battle between American and Chinese cultures. The two cultures have different views of what a ghost is. The Chinese believe the ghost spirits may be of people dead or alive. Chinese culture recognizes foreigners and unfamiliar people as ghosts because, like American ghosts, they are mysterious creatures of the unknown. Americans view ghosts as spirits of the dead that either help or haunt people. American ghosts may

a long, tormenting process filled with doubt, conflict, and misunderstanding, however once you know yourself, a calming, peaceful, and fulfilling feeling comes over you like a rainbow after a thunderstorm. In Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir, The Warrior Woman, she endures the process of defining herself over a series of stories, not all of which are hers, and ultimately, comes to a conclusion about what her identity really is. Through becoming a background character, participating in anti-cultural behaviors

Hathman 1 Rachele Hathman Professor Richard Potter ENC 1939 16 November 2016 The Woman Warrior Language is a system of communication used by humans either written or spoken to communicate our thoughts and feelings. Our thoughts and feelings we want to communicate to our loved ones, to our friends, to people we work with or go to school with and even to strangers. Maxine Hong Kingston in her memoir The Woman Warrior explores language and the use of language to express what Kingston finds as several

A ghost is “a disembodied soul,” according to the definition found within Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. However, in the novel The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, the term ghost adopts a meaning that holds a much greater depth. All throughout the text, the word “ghost” reoccurs in a metaphorical sense that binds together the overlying theme of culture disconnect between the generations of the Chinese-Americans. Kingston equips figurative usage of ghosts in order to establish a setting in which

Katniss Everdeen is one of the most well rounded woman warriors of our generation. She is a small town girl from District 12, during the movie she survives The Hunger Games and turns a nation of slaves into an army. In The Hunger Games I believe Katniss sets a great example and represents what it means to be a woman warrior. Everything from putting her family first, to making sure she comes out on top, she never loses sight of why she’s really there. In The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen goes from

The Woman Warrior Summary and Response In the memoir The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, written by Maxine Hong Kingston, the author addresses autobiographically the difficulty of combining two cultures. Kingston opens the book with the chapter No Name Woman, a recount of a story her mother told her when she was a child about an aunt she once had who killed herself. Kingston delves into the story of her unnamed aunt explaining the events in intricate detail. Her aunt, whose husband

In the novel The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston uses ghosts to represent a battle between American and Chinese cultures. The two cultures have different views of what a ghost is. The Chinese believe the ghost spirits may be of people dead or alive. Chinese culture recognizes foreigners and unfamiliar people as ghosts because, like American ghosts, they are mysterious creatures of the unknown. Americans view ghosts as spirits of the dead that either help or haunt people. American ghosts may