The Woman Warrior is the memoir of Maxine Hong Kingston’s experience growing up as a first-generation Chinese American. In it‚ she tells the stories of several other women to reveal the struggles and issues that have affected her own life. In telling their stories‚ she is telling her own stories because Kingston herself is a compilation of all the women in her book. In The Woman Warrior‚ Kingston reveals the cultural conflicts that have affected her and how‚ ultimately‚ she is able to fight back
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On Mother-daughter relationship in The Woman Warrior 1 Brief introduction of Chinese-American literature in United States(the special focus on mother-daughter relationship in the Chinese-American women writings) From the nineteenth century‚ Chinese-American literature has been discriminated by the American literature canon. Most early Chinese American works tended to cater for the taste of the white readership. The situation changed till the later half of the twentieth century when
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Analyse how contrast was used to communicate an important message or idea ‘Once Were Warriors’ Directed by Lee Tamahori and based on the novel by Alan Duff is a powerful‚ hard hitting film‚ seething with raw emotion and pride. It is a film about strength and power of culture and belonging and these ideas are displayed through the contrast of characters‚ setting and music and sound effects. Characters are the heart of this film. Complex and brutally real‚ they are portrayed in daring and passionate
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Beowulf and the 13th Warrior are two stories that are centered around the Anglo-Saxon culture and even though they have many things in common‚ there are a few key differences to the stories. These are two great stories that portray the Anglo-Saxon culture very well. The two stories both show good and evil‚ different companions‚ and how they memorialize the dead. The written story‚ Beowulf‚ can only describe some of the gruesome details. The movie however brought out some of those details into full
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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
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the poem Beowulf and the movie The 13th Warrior seek for the need of an epic hero‚ fame is what Beowulf and Buliwyf desire. In the poem Beowulf ‚ Beowulf hears of Grendel terrorising the Danes. Beowulf‚ showing his bravery steps up as the brave man he is. “Proclaiming that he’d go to that famous king‚ would sail across the sea to Hrothgar‚ now when help was needed” (lines 114 - 116) These lines show that Beowulf is desperate for fame. Unlike in The 13th Warrior Buliwyf bravery is not shown as much
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In Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior‚ Hong Kingston shares a tragic story involving one of her aunts. Originally the story was told to Hong Kingston by her mother‚ but a lot of the information was withheld so Hong Kingston includes a lot of what she thinks could have happened. Regardless of what is true and what is not‚ this piece of writing was extremely engaging and interesting. Hong Kingston dives into the norms held in Chinese culture and how they affect different people. This chapter
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In the film the 13th warrior compared to Beowulf showed many differences as well as some similarities. The director of the 13th warrior might have wanted to include similarities‚ but there was a lot of outstanding differences. But as the theme of both great thrillers still stands as good vs evil. The fight for an actual more realistic story actually stood out more to me than a fictional thriller of dragons and demons. The outstanding differences of the film compared to the great anglo saxon story
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Maxine Hong Kingston‚ the author of Woman Warrior‚ and her mother Brave Orchid are the only two people to make an appearance in every chapter of Woman Warrior. Because of this‚ we can tell how much of an effect Kingston’s mother has had on her‚ and how her talk-stories influenced her views on the Chinese and American cultures‚ family‚ and maybe most importantly‚ gender and what it means to be a woman. In the chapter entitled “Shaman‚” we get to see the life story of Brave Orchid‚ with a few moments
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The Power in Storytelling The idea of power takes an entirely new meaning in Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir‚ The Woman Warrior. Rather than power insinuating a political or social advantage‚ power in Kingston’s writing relates to her recurrent childhood experiences of being told stories and listening to “talk-story” from her mother. The importance and impact that the stories have is stressed from the first page of the memoir until the last story‚ which demonstrates the way Kingston uses and displays
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