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A general overview of Maxine Hong Kingston's "the Woman Warrior" done for an english class.
Title: A general overview of Maxine Hong Kingston's "the Woman Warrior" done for an english class.
Category: Literature
Details: Words: 1085 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
A general overview of Maxine Hong Kingston's "the Woman Warrior" done for an english class.
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a book of blending cultures, and woman's rights. It vaguely ties five short stories and anecdotes to these themes. Kingston puts to use, a lot of symbolic figures in the book, and Chinese folk tales. The whole book revolves around the author, and her struggles with her gender, and nationality. The book starts out centered around Kingston's aunt and her baby in a story titled "No Name Woman", …showed first 75 words of 1085 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1085 total…stereotyped Chinese women as subservient figures. No matter how important the book may have been, it was a woman's book. Consequently I could not relate to most of the struggles faced by Kingston, so it did not have that much of an importance to me. Her diction and rhetorical devices where well chosen, and subtly used. Put together it made for a good "chick-book" from what I have heard, but I would not recommend it.
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