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Han-1
Han Lan
Class:081111
Professor Kay Siebler
6
November 2013
A response to
the excerpt of
the Woman Warrior
Even finishing reading the excerpt of
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of
a Girlhood Among
Ghosts
, I was confused of
the meaning the author Maxine Hong Kingston wanted
to narrate.
The excerpt is
not enough for me to understand the thesis. I
searched a belief version of the
book
and
materials
about
the
author.
By
reading,
an
image
exposing
cultural
conflicts
emerges
before
me,
and
I
seem
to
see
a
dogged
woman
struggling
against
the
reality
and
change herself into a woman warrior
eventually.
Cultural conflicts can
hardly be avoided living abroad. After World War
Two, a special group
became
the
focus
of
the
society--the
immigrants
in
western
countries
from
Asia.
Maxine
Hong Kingston, suffering bicultural
dilemma and trying to give an unique insight to
the idea
of
feminism
by
writing
the
Woman
Warrior,
is
one
of
the
second
generation
of
Asian
American
immigrants. Her masterpiece
The Woman
Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among
Ghosts
mainly shows her life
experience as a typical Asian American as well as
the life of
women around her. While
going to kindergarten, the author once drank out
of a toy saucer
when
the
water
spilled
out
of
the
cup.
Everyone
laughed
for
she
was
unaware
Americans
don
’
t drink out
of saucers. Her mother was a doctor in China but
Maxine described her as a
woman with
Chinese traditional superstition. She regarded the
pills from the drugstore as a
misfortune
and
asked
her
daughter
to
go
and
make
druggists
stop
the
curse
by
giving
her
reparation candy. In addition, her
Hawaiian teacher couldn
’
t
understand why her Chinese