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jane eyre and woman warrior

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston struggles with her identity which reflects her gender and cultural ideas. The composer develops the complex novel by stretching it between memory and fiction, which causes responders to wonder if the stories she recounts are factual or just some ‘story-telling’. She wants to show the responders that she is a woman warrior. She shows this by telling stories of which she has experienced or her family has gone through. The novel consists of many difficult issues that Kingston encounters in having a Chinese-American identity. Kingston once told her Hawaiian teacher, “We Chinese can't sing "land where our fathers died." She argued with me about politics, while I mean because of curses.” She reflects upon the difficulty of aligning herself with American culture in ways that would seem to contradict the customs of her more traditional, Chinese heritage. Many elements of Western culture differ significantly from the Asian culture. These differences make assimilation difficult for both immigrants and the children of immigrants, who are often raised as if they were in their parents’ country of birth.

In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane's childhood lacks love and the experiences nec

The use of a narrator in the novel shows an odd mixture of American and Chinese styles. Kingston’s habit of writing from different perspectives and jumping back and forth between viewpoints may confuse its responders. There is a distinct difference of “self” between the two cultures. In the Chinese culture, to use the word “I” in writing would give people the impression of being disrespectful. Americans, on the other hand, are encouraged to write from their own unique perspectives, and they are accustomed to reading from an individual perspective. Knowledge of the difference between American and Chinese views of the self does much to clarify Hong Kingston’s habit of jumping back and forth between the point of view of such characters as the No Name Woman, Brave Orchid, Moon Orchid, Fa Mu Lan, and the protagonist herself. “I tell what I really think” Kingston does use the term “I” in parts of her novel, probably in an attempt to keep the story grounded and to incorporate her American style into the story.

Woman Warrior can be viewed as Kingston's inner journey of self-discovery of struggles at the margin and power gained through adversity. In coming to terms with her own bicultural identity, Kingston realizes the important role that language, history, culture, and myth play in the formation of that identity. In the end, it becomes obvious that The Woman Warrior is neither a purely American book nor a purely Chinese book. It is a Chinese-American book.

Similarly, throughout the novel Jane Eyre, there is a constant reminder on how the poor are treated. A social barrier is seen between the rich and the poor, this

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