Story-telling Using 'the Woman Warrior' By Maxine Hong Kingston

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Storytelling has helped humankind evolve into a wiser species by allowing those with enough attentiveness and intelligence to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. The Chinese culture, like many others world wide, base their beliefs largely on stories passed down from generation to generation. Because stories are told and retold, alterations and even new versions appear. Such is the case in ' Fa Mu Lan,' for more than one version is known to exist to this day. Many times the changes in a story are to put its message on a certain level for an individual to understand. If the change is to keep the message updated with society, the version would be a modernized one. These stories affect the stories with a flavor of their own personal character. In The Woman WarriorMaxine H ...view middle of the document...

It is a story about a woman warrior who takes place of her father in battle and returns in victory as a heroine. It evidently shows that her mother tells this story with her sincerest hopes and passions for her. Her mother wishes her to become more than what it was hope for . Even though woman in old China only grow up to be wives and slaves, she hopes and even dilutions of grandeurs for her daughters thrive in their hearts. Story-telling has been an essential part of their childhood.Maxine Hong Kingston was told that her aunt who committed adultery and brought shame, bad luck along with destruction to her family. She committed suicide because she could not face their families not tell who the father of the children is. The shame brought about by the incident was too much for her to bare. The story was told to warn the girls from having a child before getting married, as can be arrived at from this statement in The Woman Warrior: ' Whenever she [her mother] had to warn us about life, my mother told stories that ran like this one, a story to grow up on. She tested out strength to establish realities'(Kingston 5) referring to her aunt. Hong did not reveal the father of her daughter, possibly a rape or a forbidden love. From the story, the listener can examine those mistakes make by the earlier generation and avoid possible similar situations.The Woman Warrior is a book about lives of Chinese American women, their struggles, hardships, hopes and joy. Hong's story, however focuses on the stories her mother had told her in her youth. Hong tell these stories to shed light on the Chinese culture, mind set, etiquette. This is a book of the bibliography of a woman through the ups and downs of her mothers tales. She provided the reader and opportunity to experience those same stories that affected her so much in her childhood.

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