... writing style requires the reader to struggle along with the protagonist to make sense of the story. While the protagonist's struggle is passed on to the reader, so is the struggle faced by Kingston herself. Although Kingston was born in California and is therefore an American, her writing techniques are different from what is considered normal in the western world. In The Woman Warrior, Kingston uses many ... techniques typical of Chinese writing, suggesting some of the influences on her of her Chinese roots. The use of a narrator in the novel shows an odd mixture of American and Chines...

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• Approx Pages: 4

Review of: The Woman Warrior When I first picked up the book and read the title, The Woman Warrior, I feared for my life that this was going to be another boring book that had been assigned because it was the only book the professor could find that was dealing with the material we cover in class. I was utterly wrong! The book in general was put together nicely and was well written in my opinion ... . I really enjoyed the chapter entitled, "The White Tigers ... ". It amazed me to read how the little girl was taken from her home and trained for many years to become a warrior just like a man woul...

• Word Count: 417
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is no exception. Maxine Hong Kingston masterfully blends the mythical storytelling of Old China with her past and present experiences in the United States. In doing so, she addresses several different angles of this culture clash, including the role of women in each society, the backward logic in both languages, and the general resistance the ... in traditional Chinese society: Moon Orchid proved unable to deal with realistic skills because her society never allowed them to develop. Kingston spends much of her focus on the role of l...

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... Lan, and to stand up for what they believe in. These young women could then become warrior women, instead of wives and slaves. Kingston writes about the story that her mother used to tell her when she was a young girl. She would follow her mother about the house, "the two of us singing about how Fa Mu Lan fought gloriously." (20.) Kingston recalls that ... her mother told her that she was to grow up into a warrior woman, instead of being a wife and slave. The point of view of this particular story is in the first person. Kingston first begins by saying that her ... mother had told her ...

• Word Count: 528
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

After reading The Woman Warrior, you get the impression that she worked hard to put together her book. Her memories come from myths and anecdotes told to her by her mother. She bounces from the old family tales, to the tales of her mother and then to tales of her aunt, Moon Orchid. Kingston was the expected subject of the autobiography, but it seems more like a tale of her ... comes when Maxine tries to tell her mother her secrets and the screaming dialogue that follows ends the middle of the book. She constructs her memories into a pattern that she can learn from. "This autobiography embodie...

• Word Count: 715
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures. These two conflicting cultures are her as a female devaluing Chinese culture and being influenced by an American culture, and her developing her own identity as a Chinese-American. The chapter "No Name Woman" is a perfectly illustrated example of the woman's place in traditional ... Chinese society, and how it differs from that in America. Instead of receiving the knowledge of her cultural past passively, Kingston questions it, amplifies it, a...

• Word Count: 1185
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... ethnic identity is not so complicated. The list of determinants that I believe to define ethnic identity includes language, geographic location, and tradition. Language is the most obvious determinant of ethnic identity, especially in the United States. Language barriers were particularly apparent in The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston. The main character's family in this novel was Chinese and represented the first generation of immigrants for this family ... . Due to the fact that the entire family spoke Chinese, they were forced to find housing ... ...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate