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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, the narrative investigates numerous sides of the immigrant encounters in the United States. The book focuses not only on those who immigrated to the U.S. from China but preferably on the first generation born in this country. Within the woman in question stories the narrator pulls us into her problems of growing up in an immigrant society and her fight with various aspects of her Chinese heritage: her fear of being…

in height. My mum describes me as having a heart shaped face, cupid lips, a petite nose and petite ears. My face is covered in moles, my Dad always regarded them as beauty spots, I regard them as moles. I have chosen to study creative writing at Kingston university, once again for many different reasons. I live for both reading and writing. I want to be a published author. I need to be a published author. I want people to adore my writing, the same way I adore reading. I have wanted to be an…

I am a girl. I have always been a girl, have always seen myself as a girl, and hold onto being a girl as a part of my identity. For most of my life, this identity has not had a profoundly negative nor positive impact on how I live. I have the privilege of having grown up in liberal Sonoma, where my being a girl did not automatically make me lesser. I played Co-Ed soccer until I was 10, was given the same opportunities to learn as the boys in my classes, and never had anyone other than a…

and going blind. So the Hardenberghs decided not to sell Mau Mau. She was given permission to freely take care of Baumfree. So finally, when Charles sheep were added to the auction, Belle was sold to a man named John Neely. John owned a store in Kingston, New York. Belle only saw her parents four times with a month between visits after being sold. When Belle was eleven Mau Mau died, and Baumfree died soon after that. Belle now felt lonely. The Neelys was all she had, but she didn't find much…

Individuality and community are the two defining characteristics for humans. Driven by both his rage and vanity, Wittman in Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Kingston searches for a balance of these principles. As a character, Wittman is a confused artist. He is trying to be an individual in contemporary society, but finds this impossible because people think of him as different. Wittman correctly comprehends that this is because of the color of his skin. Wittman wants people to view him as…

The Women Warrior is a book by Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior talks about stories about women. The theme of this story is about gender roles. It is gender roles, because it shouldn’t define who you are and what you can do. This memoir finds its way onto many women for the gender issues it raises, especially regarding the role of women in traditional Chinese society. The Women Warrior talks about stories of women. One of very few themes are gender roles. The story…

In Amy Tan’s essay, Mother Tongue, Tan discusses her struggles growing up as an Asian-American born to Chinese immigrants. She examines certain aspects of the language she speaks and writes, against the language her mother speaks and writes. Amy has a keen grip on “proper” English, most likely due to her being raised in America. Alternatively, Tan’s mother speaks in fragments of English due to her being an immigrant who fled China’s Cultural Revolution (Amy, 1990). Tan realises her different…

Can you survive in the woods, alone, in the cold? In order to survive in conditions like those you have to have extreme survival skills. In the articles “My escape from N.K.”, “Trapped,” and the movie “Lone Survivor,” these characters had these skills to survive. It takes courage, endurance, and intelligence to be a survivor. Courage is used in survival because if you don’t believe in yourself then you won’t think that you are going to survive. Courage is used in the story, “My escape from…

Sojourner Truth was an African-American woman who from the 1820s until the day she died, fought for emancipation and women’s rights. Before she was officially known as Sojourner Truth; the activist, she was Isabella Baumfree; the slave. In New York, Baumfree spent her young years as a slave where she was faced with many of the cruelties of this forced lifestyle. Her siblings were ripped away from her family and sold to other plantation owners. Eventually, this was Baumfree’s reality as well. At…

Sojourner Truth was a strong, powerful woman who impacted many lives. Sojourner was an African-American abolitionist and women’s right activist. Her life was very difficult during the Civil War. Many things were accomplished before Truth’s death. Sojourner Truth overcame many obstacles; she was sold into slavery, gave birth to thirteen children, and known for her famous Ohio women’s rights speech. Overall, this brave woman lead the path to women’s rights. To begin, Sojourner Truth was sold into…