In The Woman
Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Kingston explores women's silence
throughout the memoir. The memoir explores Kingstons journey from
childhood through adulthood in an effort to find her own voice.
Kingston tells us the stories that her mother told her as a young
child; the reader sees through these stories that the women in
Chinado not have
a voice. Brave Orchid (Kingston's
mother) is
voiceless in America, Brave Orchid does not speak english and feels
disconnected from her unfamiliar surroundings. By writing this
memoir, it is Kingston's goal to give women their own individual
voice. It is Kingstons dream to become a
womanwarrior.
In the chapter White Tiger, the reader reads about Fa Mu Lan.
Fa Mu Lan is one one the woman warriors from whom the memoir gets
its title. According to Chinese legend, Fa Mu Lan is a girl that
took her fathers place in battle. As a child, Kingston dreams
about
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She was not
taught english at home, so when she started kindergarten, she
struggled to speak. This caused a deep interior struggle between
her Chinese heritage and her American experience. She noticed other
Chinese girls also who seemed to have no voice. ¨The other Chines
girls did not talk either, so I knew the silence had to do with
being a Chinese girl (Kingston 166). Kingstons awareness of her
own inner struggle makes her conscious that, in order to have a
voice, she must find a middle ground between her two heritages. By
writing her memoir, Kingston does find her own voice. The Woman
Warrior gives a voice to the voiceless women from her past. Brave
Orchid tells Kingston, ¨You must not tell anyone,...what I am about
to tell you.¨(Kingston 3) The No Name Woman refers to Kingstons
aunt who killed herself in China because of an untimely pregnancy.
Kingston has become a woman warrior; not only by creating her own
voice but by allowing those who have been silenced to
be
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