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    The term “talk story” originates from the Hawaiian pidgin language. This language developed throughout the 19th century when laborers from China‚ Portugal‚ Japan‚ Korea‚ Russia‚ and several other countries came to conduct business on Hawaiian plantations. Since the plantations consisted of many different foreigners‚ a common language was needed. As a result‚ the Pidgin Hawaiian language evolved. These new immigrants adopted Hawaiian words and phrases. In an interview with Susan Brownmiller‚ Maxine

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    Thinking The Woman Warrior Argumentative Essay Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior is a series of narrations‚ vividly recalling stories she has heard throughout her life. These stories clearly depict the oppression of woman in Chinese society. Even though women in Chinese Society traditionally might be considered subservient to men‚ Kingston viewed them in a different light. She sees women as being equivalent to men‚ both strong and courageous. In a few stark story‚ depressing in

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    The Woman Warrior While reading The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston it makes the reader wonder how our ancestors dealt with their everyday lives in the 1920’s. What we consider hard labor and sacrifice; they might have considered a mini vacation. We could go out about our lives and not have to worry about anybody but ourselves. They had to deal with everyday criticism from the people in their neighborhood‚ watching their every move and every choice they made. Kingston talks about an aunt

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    A Warrior’s Triumph The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston presents the story of a girl trapped between the cultures of her surrounding environment and that which her mother and family have forced upon her. Knowing only the Chinese way of life‚ this girl’s mother attempts to familiarize her daughter‚ whom is also the narrator‚ with the history of their family. The mother shares this heritage through the use of stories in hopes the narrator will be prepared for her ultimate return to China

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    In literature authors often use literary forms and mediums such as‚ illustrations and images‚ talk story and legends. But why do authors add such forms and styles in their contemporary texts? Well‚ the answer can be found in the literary works of Mine Okubo Citizen 13600‚ Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior and Le Thi Diem Thuy The Gangster We are All Looking For– all three writers uses theses forms as a way to give the readers a sense of the characters development as an Asian American. Okubo’s

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    Woman Warrior Analysis Woman Warrior is a very unique take on an autobiography‚ fascinating even‚ in that much of it is not necessarily true. It is relayed through talk-stories and accounts from other people. Some is fantasy or openly made up. This occassionally makes Kingston seem fictional. At the same time‚ these stories of all of the women connected to Kingston take us down the road to her personal growth‚ understanding of her Chinese culture‚ and realization of how much a part of her

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    self-definition. In 1976‚ Chinese-American writer‚ Maxine Hong Kingston‚ became a significant voice in this discussion in her seminal work‚ The Woman Warrior: A Girlhood Among Ghosts. This memoir enticingly blends Kingston’s youth as a Chinese-American girl and the stories she developed from Chinese myths her mother retold. Kingston recounts a variety of talk-stories from her mother‚ Chinese myths‚ and her own experiences. Although

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    source of information and subsequent conclusions are based on what she has been told (Brave Orchild’s talk-stories and “the movies”). Due to this disconnection

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    In the Woman Warrior‚ Kingston develops a motif throughout the story about silence and voice; however‚ in the woman’s culture they are typically silenced and do not have a voice proving the Chinese society and culture is unfair and cruel. During the novel Kingston regularly brings up the concept of silence and lack of voice. For example‚ Kingston relays how when she is a young girl it is hard for her to voice her opinion‚ and she spends a vast amount of time sitting in silence. The author fails

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    The Woman Warrior‚ Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts‚ combines myths with autobiography in order to explore Kingston’s identify formation in relation to her mother and female relatives. Kingston uses the first person to narrate five distinct short stories. Each of them contains a central female character. The unique feature of this book is the rearrangement of the traditional Chinese myths‚ legend of Fa Mu Lan and Ts’ai Yen. The combination of fact and fiction and the combination of reality and

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