Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston connecting her family to the story of her no name aunt, Kingston learns about her family secret. In china, 1924 Kinston’s mother begins to explain the mystery in Kingston’s father’s side. Kingston’s father supposedly had only brothers because they made sure not to mention anything about the no name aunt. She killed herself and her new born baby in the family well. Reminiscing back in time Kingston’s mother explains how she suspected the aunt to be pregnant. She remembers one

When Two Different Worlds Collide Throughout the book, “The Western Place” , by Maxine Hong Kingston, there is a differential gap between the two sisters who come from two different sides of the world. A lot of differences between the two sisters and their personal lifestyles comes from one sister living in America as a Chinese-American and the other sister living in China. In the story Brave Orchid who is the sister that is brave, outspoken, and sometimes cruel sees life as a bundle of opportunities

In “No Name Woman”, Maxine Hong Kingston discusses a story her mother shared with her. It is about Kingston’s aunt who, while her husband was in America, became pregnant and committed suicide the day of her illegitimate child’s birth. Also included in the story is a raid, undertaken by neighbors and other villagers, on the aunt’s family and home. In order to fully understand the story, it is necessary to know the historical context. Taking place in 1920s China, the instability, importance of the

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston crafts a fictitious memoir of her girlhood among ghosts. The book’s classification as a memoir incited significant debate, and the authenticity of her representation of Chinese American culture was contested by Asian American scholars and authors. The Woman Warrior is ingenuitive in its manipulation of the autobiographical genre. Kingston integrates the value of storytelling in her memoir and relates it to dominant themes about silence, cultural authenticity

“No Name Woman,” an essay by Maxine Hong Kingston, examines the intricacies of culture and identity. The essay centers on the story of when Kingston’s mother first told Kingston about her deceased aunt, the no name woman. In “the old China” (310), Kingston’s aunt became pregnant out of wedlock. The villagers, furious at her betrayal of their way of life, raided no name woman’s family’s home. No name woman’s family preceded to shout at her for bringing such misfortune upon them. Terrified, no name

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

embrace. A Chinese-American, Maxine Hong Kingston is familiar with this dilemma. In her piece “No Name Woman”, Kingston explores this struggle by sharing the tragic story of her aunt’s pregnancy. Within her piece, she journalistically reports her aunt’s story in her mother’s words and fictionally narrates some of her aunt’s possible behaviors because of its lack of detail. She also explains several Chinese customs and

struggle to live the “American Dream”. Thousands of people come to the U.S. to live a better life for their family. Instead they face racial seclusion, struggle to survive, and consequences of American’s fear. In the memoir, The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, a girl who discloses stories about Chinese myths, families, and events in the U.S. that has shaped her identity. In the historical fiction novel, When the Emperor was Divine, by Julie Otsuka, is about a Japanese American family sent to an

No Name Woman In Chinese traditional culture, since women had lots of limitations in gender role, they have no power to influence their future. In the essay “No Name Woman”, the author Maxine Hong Kingston shows a tragedy of her aunt in the traditional Chinese society and it emphasizes how it is necessary to change men and women’s status. Her aunt got pregnant after her husband left home. It was not accepted by villagers and her family because they thought she do not follow the traditional women

Throughout the novel The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, the past is incorporated into the present through talk-stories combined into each chapter. Kingston uses talk-stories, to examine the intermingling of Chinese myths and lived experiences. These stories influence the life of the narrator as the past is constantly spoken about from the time she is young until the novel ends and she becomes an adult. Kingston incorporates two cultures. She is not a direct recipient of Chinese culture,