Essays on The Woman Warrior

Sacred Bonds The bond between mother and daughter is an especially sacred one. However, the bond between Maxine Hong Kingston and her own mother in The Woman Warrior is like that of a roller coaster with happy highs and crashing lows. As Chinese-Americans, there is…

Sexism has been prevalent in societies all over for as long as one can remember. Not only is it obvious in societies, but it is also visible in literature texts made in all different parts of the world. One of the texts we studied in…

Maxine Hong Kingston explores her family history and cultural and personal identity in her highly acclaimed novel The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts through the unique application of melding myth and reality to create a fantastical autobiography. With recurring themes such as…

The compelling, yet haunting novel by Tim O’Brien “The Things They Carried” has many parallels and contrasts to multiple elements of the culture filled text by Maxine Hong Kingston “The Woman Warrior” including writing style, targeted audience, and perspective. Both novels, “The Things They Carried”…