Essays Tagged: "Maxine Hong Kingston"
Story-Telling using 'The Woman Warrior' by Maxine Hong Kingston
These stories affect the stories with a flavor of their own personal character. In The Woman WarriorMaxine Hong Kingston utilizes stories told to her by her mother as a device to introduce readers to ... throughout her life along with best hopes and wishes.The Woman Warrior is a story about the life of Maxine Hong Kingston. It is easy to see her identity from those memorable occurrences that she menti ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
A general overview of Maxine Hong Kingston's "the Woman Warrior" done for an english class.
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a book of blending cultures, and woman's rights. It vagu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
this is an essay from maxine hong kingstions "The woman warrior" about the short story whithin this book "Shaman. it shows my beliefs about toism and the beliefs found in this story.
In analyzing the section entitled "Shaman" from the book The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, I found many occurrences to be closely paralleled to my beliefs of Taoism. The ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hongs Kingston.
The Woman Warrior is a story about Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir, who is trying to blend and develop two different cultures into one. T ... imes and difficulties when they move to a new country. The setting of Women Warrior tells a life of Maxine Hong Kingston as a second-generation Chinese- American girl. She realizes that she must combi ... tage. She proves that the blending of two cultures is a possible and happening event.In conclusion, Maxine Hong Kingston spent her life fighting the control her family tries to put on her. In her life ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston.
e... what I am going to tell you.'" (3) Is this not an ironic beginning for a memoir? When in fact, Maxine Hong Kingston, the author and narrator of The Woman Warrior, is doing the exact opposite, and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Essay on Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" and how she utilizes this story to help her integrate her two cultural identities into her own.
t achieve a sense of her character through personal experience and self search. In "No Name Woman", Maxine Hong Kingston recalls the events of her aunt's life in the elusive world of her Chinese roots ... society. She had no name and did not exist in her family's memory, at least not publicly. However, Maxine Hong Kingston didn't want to join her family's punishment toward her aunt. She pitied her aun ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
To be a woman warrior or not to be.
In the Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, qualities portrayed by various characters represent the same qualities necessa ... h displays a passive personality. She wouldn't even bother to attempt a swing at bat in baseball as Maxine explains, "When the kids said 'Automatic walk,' the girl who was quieter than I kneeled with ... id has an active personality in which she always performs beneficial actions. While she explains to Maxine about the hardships of her job, Maxine asks, "Mama, why don't you stop working? You don't hav ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Talking-Story in Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
What Are You Talking-Story About?Maxine Hong Kingston is arguably one of today's most outspoken contemporary feminist writers. Howeve ... in her successful integration into the Western world and a respect of her native traditionIn China, Maxine Hong Kingston's native land, childrearing is a direct result of Confusion tradition, "one of ... in attaining this goal is with the socialization tactic of talk-story.In her Critical Companion to Maxine Hong Kingston, E D Huntley describes talk-story (or gong gu tsai) as"a community discourse, a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston, the "woman warrior" and the author of "The Woman Warrior" have gone through ha ... merican experiences of several females in the novel "The Woman Warrior"; Moon Orchid, Brave Orchid, Maxine herself, and the Girl Who Wouldn't Talk. They all have different experiences in America. Alth ... es differ greatly from one another in the novel.Moon Orchid, the sister of Brave Orchid and aunt of Maxine Kingston came to America thanks to Brave Orchid's saving bond. Her experience in America prov ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
The Women's World
an men due to the complexity of the subservient role they played in traditional Chinese culture. In Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography -- "The woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood among Ghosts", Ki ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
"Woman Warrior", by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Aside from her actions, Maxine Hong Kingston isn't much more different than the woman she so greatly idolized. In her novel, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"The Woman Warrior"
"The Woman Warrior" is a story about Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir, who is trying to blend and develop two different cultures into one. T ... imes and difficulties when they move to a new country. The setting of Women Warrior tells a life of Maxine Hong Kingston as a second-generation Chinese- American girl. She realizes that she must combi ... tage. She proves that the blending of two cultures is a possible and happening event.In conclusion, Maxine Hong Kingston spent her life fighting the control her family tries to put on her. In her life ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The theme of identity as developed within the novel "The Woman Warrior" by Maxime Hong Kingston
ression of the search for her identity as a female torn between two cultures: Chinese and American. Maxine Hong Kingston, in my opinion, subverts the traditional definitions of what is justified by ma ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Woman Warrior
man Warrior tells of the blending and development of two different cultures into one. This story is Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir, written in 1975. The story tells of the hardships and difficulties th ... ties that immigrants experience when they move to a new country. Woman Warrior portrays the life of Maxine Hong Kingston, a second-generation Chinese-American girl. She realizes that she must intertwi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Maxine&langston
o be comparing and contrasting two stories from two well known writers. Chinese-American Silence by Maxine Hong Kingston and Salvation by Langston Hughes . The Main Similarity of this essays is clearl ... s lied to everybody, and does not seem to grasp the courage to admit it.Chinese-American Silence by Maxine Kingston , is about a girl confronted with problems of her culture that conflicts with her de ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Magical Realism
and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston employ many similar structural devices. These devices include: Magical Realism, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Literary analysis of the woman
Identity Crisis Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior
About the author In 1940, a person by the name of Maxine Hong Kingston was born. She was the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling ho ... "changeability" and is part of what makes her writing unique.The Book: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is an excellent portrayal of Chinese woman in China. It shows how suppressed th ... em. In the forth chapter, a woman by the name of Moon Orchid was the sister of Brave Orchid, Maxine's mother. Moon Orchid had lived in China as a "widow" ever since her husband left for the Uni ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
“No Name Woman” Maxine Hong Kingston
In the essay ?No Name Woman? Maxine Hong Kingston tells a story from her Chinese culture, of a forgotten aunt whose husband went ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Chinese Invincible Women Fight With The Tragic Fate In The Past
people from China now live all over the world and they have had to adapt to their new environment. Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan are North American Asian writers whose families have been living in ... se culture. The two stories expose the fate of women suffering from patriarchy and sexism in China. Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan illustrate a cultural view on women's rights in the past. They tell ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers