Brooklyn‚ New York‚ to Irish immigrant parents‚ grew up in Limerick‚ Ireland‚ and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book‚ Angela’s Ashes‚ won the Pulitzer Prize‚ the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006‚ he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education. Long before
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Eric Perinotti Professor Sachdev Writing and 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
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First Impressions of the Loman Family In Arthur Miller’s beloved American play ‘Death of a Salesman’‚ he presents the Loman family in one way‚ but uses subtle clues to give us‚ the audience‚ Miller’s direct interpretation of the characters. The first characters we are introduced to are the protagonist‚ Willy and his wife‚ Linda. From the start Miller portrays Willy as a struggling salesman‚ his last name being ‘Loman’ which is a homophone for ‘low man’. During Willy and Linda’s first exchange
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Midterm Redraft English 251 May-1-07 Kingston’s Women Warrior gives voices and identities to Chinese and Chinese American women. Growing up with a family of five sisters and myself as first generation Korean Americans‚ The Women Warrior focuses on the author’s life were she struggles to find her voice. Maxine Hong Kingston’s writing of this book is an example of how ancient talk stories‚ myths‚ and beliefs help one find her voice in America. The Women Warrior takes us on an adventure through
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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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Danielle Loeffler Comparative Literature Paper 1 March 12‚ 2013 In the novel‚ Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat there are various themes that are portrayed and symbolized throughout the novel. Amabelle‚ an orphaned Haitian maid‚ struggles with the idea of letting go of the past‚ the tragedy of death‚ and loss. According to the quote by Barbara Christian‚ she states‚ “among the folk who speak in muted tones of color‚ feminists‚ radical critics‚ creative writers‚ who have struggled for much
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The Woman Warrior v.s. Chinese Culture The Woman Warrior‚ written by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1976‚ depicts the stories of five women – Kingston’s “No-Name” aunt; a famous historical female warrior called “Fa Mu Lan”; Kingston’s mother‚ Brave Orchid; Kingston’s aunt‚ Moon Orchid; and Kingston herself. The book integrates Kingston’s lived experience as well as the spoken stories that Kingston’s mother told her‚ combining Chinese culture‚ myths‚ history and beliefs all together. The Woman Warrior
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Chapter 1: Conception: The Origin of a Story The origin of a story may come from a plethora of triggers in life such as a notebook‚ memory‚ or even pure intuition. In Kingston’s novel‚ The Woman Warrior‚ she primarily uses her memory to recall the legend of Fa Mu Lan‚ a Chinese girl who took her father’s place in battle illegally (21). Kingston uses this familiar Chinese story that leaves a “direct personal impression” on her and links it to her own imagination (Lanning and Macauley 3). This
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When an Ordinary Object Becomes an Extraordinary “Thing” To most people the rocking chair is just that; a chair that you can rock in. To myself and so many others‚ the rocking chair is so much more. The rocking chair takes on human characteristics‚ it has two arms and it has a seat in which you can become one with the chair. The rocking chair is by far one of the best ways to soothe an irritable infant or bring peace and comfort to an adult. My rocking chair may seem like an ordinary one‚ the
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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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