All throughout this list she intermixes the practice and prayers of going to Catholic confession while subtly talking about writing and the life of an unnamed poet. The section ends with the explanation of the May event of the Immaculate conception and the sentence, "And it begins." This phrase could hold many meanings: the beginning of Christ's life, the beginning of the novel, or even possibly the beginning of her career as a writer.
In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior there are many instances where the author uses the autobiographical format to convey different points in history. The way that Kingston uses the format to accomplish this is very different from Cha. She uses the sometimes surreal stories through the eyes of the mother and daughter to illustrate the happenings of the time. The absolute extremeness of the various stories almost seem fictitious but at the same time give the reader a time frame while keeping them entertained. On pages 95-96 the story about the crazy woman being stoned is used to illustrate how little some countries knew about the war that was going on. They believed her to be a spy and therefore stoned her to death. "The planes came again that afternoon," this phrase shows that they were indeed wrong and knew nothing about the causes of the war but that it did not matter to the village because she was crazy. .
Many Asian American authors deal with the issues that follow stereotypes in their works. More specifically these stereotypes can deal with the issues if sexual identity or gender roles. Both M. Butterfly and The Woman Warrior provide us with very different views of different stereotypes of Asian Americans. .
In the play M. Butterfly we see that Song Ling is the stereotype of the effeminate male throughout the majority of the story. The only thing that does not match up with the stereotype is his attitude. On the outside the match is their, however, Song Ling, because he is masquerading as a woman is not thought of as an effeminate male.