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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battle or saves a life” (Campbell 151). The second is a spiritual deed‚ “in which the hero learns to experience the supernatural range of human spiritual life and then comes back with a message” (Campbell 152). In his story “The way of the peaceful Warrior”‚ Dan Millman tells us about his experience with a white bearded man known as Socrates who takes him on many adventures and gives him knowledge on life. Although the two stories are different they are alike in many ways. Campbell introduces us to
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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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Juxtaposition in The Woman Warrior In The Woman Warrior‚ Maxine Hong Kingston writes an honest memoir that focuses in on the lives of five woman; the most important being Kingston‚ and is told in 5 chapters. As a reader‚ we get a glimpse into the realities of life for many Chinese emigrants in America and their children. Kingston‚ who is the narrator in the book‚ creates an elaborate fantasy in the second chapter‚ called “White Tigers”. In it‚ Kingston portrays a strong warrior woman‚ who leads her
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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 drawings give visualization about her struggle in America
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common? Not every book has something in common with another‚ but some have so much in common they could be the same book. In The 13th warrior and in Beowulf there seems to be some slight differences‚ but there are also some major similarities. Beowulf and The 13th Warrior are two completely different stories but yet seem to have so much in common. While both The 13th warrior and Beowulf are based on the same topic‚ they both have very different views of fighting and winning. One similarity that remains
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After reading the poem Beowulf and watching the movie The 13th Warrior‚ I have found many similarities and a vast variety of differences. In both the poem and the movie the theme of good versus evil remains the same‚ reflecting the values of Anglo Saxons. The many differences throughout the poem and movie include character names‚ battles‚ and the way the heroes die. The most obvious difference between the two is the name of the heroes and their battling strengths. In the poem‚ Beowulf‚ the hero
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The Comparison of “Beowulf” and “13th Warrior” Beowulf is an epic poem written a long time ago. The 13th Warrior is pretty much a movie based on Beowulf but not exactly. The two pieces of literature both shared a lot of differences and similarities as well. The 13th Warrior offered a more realistic‚ believable‚ and more understanding of the epic tale of Beowulf. It’s a short story covering the bases of a triumphant hero battling three supernatural monsters. But there had a lot of theatrical remake
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story of Beowulf and The 13th Warrior written by a Christian Monk and the story called Eaters of the Dead what was later know as The 13th Warrior written by Ibn Fadlan who was Moslem which was later written by Michael Crichton. Then there was a movie called The 13th Warrior. The two things that will be compared and contrasted are going to be the movie of The 13th Warrior and the Epic of Beowulf. Instead of doing a translation of Beowulf‚ the writer of the "The 13th Warrior" used his creativity to
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