No Lost Paradise Sparknotes
Rabine, Leslie W. "No Lost Paradise: Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston." Signs 12.3 (1987): 471-92.
The article, No Lost Paradise, gives a brief description about how gender determines one’s place in the family and society, and one’s place of power. Though neither sex possesses essential qualities, gender oppositions do play a vital role in organizing Kingston’s world. This article also depicts at the oral culture that they should have in their traditional communities and their reality. In reality, you will realize that they are the worse. Brave Orchid tells Maxine very important secrets which releases her and entraps Maxine between two worlds. “Who is the real outcast poetess, who is the real woman warrior, Maxine or Brave Orchid?” (486). …show more content…
Maxine believes that her mother hates her until Brave Orchid tells her that she doesn’t always mean what she says, it's just the Chinese culture. This source essential weakness is that it compares and contrasts the Woman Warrior and the China Men, although this weakness is its biggest strength. That weakness loses the focus of Brave Orchid as well as Maxine. But it also gives one of the biggest incites on how other articles and stories relate back to the woman warrior. Is it the same? Or different?
In the next couple of days, I will be using this article to support my thesis. I would use this article to demonstrate how the two women, Brave Orchid and Maxine Hong Kingston, have opposing characteristics with the same kind heart. The way Brave Orchid acts is a representation of Chinese culture. While Maxine exhibits American culture, which confuses Maxine because she doesn’t know how the traditional Chinese culture
The article, No Lost Paradise, gives a brief description about how gender determines one’s place in the family and society, and one’s place of power. Though neither sex possesses essential qualities, gender oppositions do play a vital role in organizing Kingston’s world. This article also depicts at the oral culture that they should have in their traditional communities and their reality. In reality, you will realize that they are the worse. Brave Orchid tells Maxine very important secrets which releases her and entraps Maxine between two worlds. “Who is the real outcast poetess, who is the real woman warrior, Maxine or Brave Orchid?” (486). …show more content…
Maxine believes that her mother hates her until Brave Orchid tells her that she doesn’t always mean what she says, it's just the Chinese culture. This source essential weakness is that it compares and contrasts the Woman Warrior and the China Men, although this weakness is its biggest strength. That weakness loses the focus of Brave Orchid as well as Maxine. But it also gives one of the biggest incites on how other articles and stories relate back to the woman warrior. Is it the same? Or different?
In the next couple of days, I will be using this article to support my thesis. I would use this article to demonstrate how the two women, Brave Orchid and Maxine Hong Kingston, have opposing characteristics with the same kind heart. The way Brave Orchid acts is a representation of Chinese culture. While Maxine exhibits American culture, which confuses Maxine because she doesn’t know how the traditional Chinese culture