Voice In The Woman Warrior

One thing Perdue could have done to have taken this book to the next level, is include more insight from specific Cherokee women. With their insights, it would have given more of a direct insight as to actual stories making the book more interesting. If she had included more examples of Cherokee women today and how they demonstrated strength this book could have been better. Also, Perdue’s analysis reveals the burden of her politics. It is evident that at times she uses communitarian and the female centric nature of Cherokee society to criticize modern American gender relations and society.

In “Raymond’s Run” and “All-American Slurp”, the theme of the story affects the lives of the main characters. In “All-American Slurp” the theme is “change takes some time to get used to” the main character, the Lin girl needs some time to get used to America because she came in from living a different culture. And in “Raymond’s Run”, the theme is “the way you act affects what others think of you” the main character Squeaky wants real friends but, she first needs to learn how to control her attitude. In “Raymond’s Run” what Squeaky wants is real friends but, what's holding her back is her temper, responsibilities with taking care of Raymond, being over confident, and her urge to help Raymond with his disabilities.

Since the California Gold Rush, people around the world came to the United States to seek for opportunities and jobs to start their “new” life. In these settlers, many of them were Chinese, who were trapped in California because of the Revolution in China. They came to the United States to helped build California’s agriculture, mines, and railroad. Fae Myenne Ng’s family was one of settlers from China, her mother sailed across the Pacific Ocean for months searching to give a better future for her next generation - Fae Myenne Ng, who was born in San Francisco, California, in 1957. Fae Myenne Ng, as the first generation born Americans in her family carries lots of hopes and pressure from her mother.

Kingston reveals another example of how defying gender roles can lead to a better life in her story “Shaman.” As her mom is

She says, "In view of these things, why are you silent, ye free men and women of the north? Why do your tongues falter in maintenance of the right?" (Jacobs,33) She uses a couple different strategies to show this. She writes deeply into the horrors of slavery, mainly based on women slaves, and the love these women had for their children to play on the readers sympathy and compassion.

From within her realm as a former slave woman, she uses her knowledge and assets to her advantage to appeal to a larger audience, in an effort to pursue women’s rights and push for more opportunities, privileges, and ultimately equality, for all races, male and female, within

Lit Analysis II In The Woman Warrior, Kingston compares Chinese women's voice with American women's voice as a symbolic reference of her constant struggle to find her identity in order to give deeper insight of her continuous conflict due to her battle of pleasing her mother's strict cultural belief and fitting in with America. Kingston is raised in America with parents who are only aware of Chinese lifestyle and not quick to adapt to the American lifestyle. Her mother tells her stories about women getting pregnant to only commit suicide as it is a disgrace to have sex before marriage in her culture. Additionally, her mother tells her stories about brave women warriors for Kingston to aspire to become strong and independent.

The Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, explores 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 fantasy and reality is closely intertwined in the stories.

Over the course of this book, she learns how important it is to speak up because if you stay silent you're letting the person who immensely changed your life for the worse win and get away with things that are unacceptable. In our society young women are being assaulted and are the victims of rape quite frequently and this book really stretches the importance of speaking up for your rights and to

In the book Ar’n’t I a women the author, Deborah Gray White, explains how the life was for the slave women in the Southern plantations. She reveals to us how the slave women had to deal with difficulties of racism as well as dealing with sexism. Slave women in these plantations assumed roles within the family as well as the community; these roles were completely different to the roles given to a traditional white female. Deborah Gray White shows us how black women had a different experience from the black men and the struggle they had to maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds, resist sexual oppression, and keep their families together. In the book the author describes two different types of women, “Jezebel” and “Mammy” they

Octavia Butler is an Afrofuturist, science fiction author who writes many dystopian stories that allude to questions about gender, social structures, and an individual’s ability to control her body and sexuality. When people think of speculative and science fiction they tend to think of nerdy white men writing stories about space and light sabers, but Octavia Butler challenges this stereotype herself by being one of the few African American women in this genre. In Octavia Butler’s speculative fiction short story “Speech Sounds” there is a reversal of gender roles and a strong idea of feminism that is portrayed through the main character Rye. There is also the use of simile and metaphor to help point out flaws in the social structure of the story and the world of the reader.

To be specific, she situates the imminent feminist struggle by highlighting the legacy of slavery among black people, and black women in particular. “Black women bore the terrible burden of equality in oppression” (Davis). Due to her race, her writing focuses on what she understood and ideas that are relevant to black females. Conversely, since white men used black women in domestic labor and forcefully rape these individuals. These men used this powerful weapon to remind black women of their female and vulnerability.

This peculiarly specific list showed that as a first-generation American, she was constantly scrutinizing the small actions that her mother demonstrated, and she was embarrassed, although it is not likely anyone else ever noticed. However, as she got older, Jing-Mei realized the fact that she was “becoming Chinese.” She still did not truly understand her mother or the beauty of Chinese culture, but her acceptance was the first step of the long excursion of

In The Woman Warrior, Kingston describes how she overcame a period of silence and low self-esteem in order to illustrate how personal motivation is of greater importance than societal boundaries. Beginning in kindergarten, Kingston went through a period of silence in order to conform to the female peers in America. Societal oppression is the cause of the silence according to Kingston. Kingston fears of not being accepted by her peers as well as deportation back to China, and thus she is silenced. Kingston recalls the manner in which the silence hindered her everyday life in her description of the silence, "When I went to kindergarten and had to speak English for the first time, I became silent.

She shows this by using her mother’s English speaking as an example. For example, her mother was talking about a “political gangster in Shanghai” and this is some of what she spoken: “’Now important person, very hard to inviting him. Chinese way, came only to show respect, don’t stay for