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What is the significance of Fa Mu Lan in Kingston's life?
The character of Fa Mu Lan serves as foil to the chapter before, in which Kingston's aunt's spirit was crushed by the village's rules about women, and the section at the end of "White Tigers," in which those same rules and customs constrict Kingston in America.
What role does Fa Mu Lan play in The Woman Warrior How is this mythological woman warrior integrated into Kingston's narrative?
Also known as "the woman warrior" (and familiar in Western popular culture as "Mulan"), legend has it that she replaced her father in battle and saved her village from a greedy baron. Kingston chooses Fa Mu Lan as a heroine, for the warrior woman's femininity does not hinder her strength, but instead reinforces it. What facts does the writer give about Brave Orchid? Brave Orchid is a bundle of contradictions: fiercely intelligent but rarely perceptive, misguided about Moon Orchid's husband; proud of her heritage but also guarded about much of her past, such as the suicide of No-Name Woman; and gentle at times to her family but also capable of incredible coldness and cruelty, as in
Why is Brave Orchid worried for her son?
Because they know that Brave Orchid wanted her son to flee to Canada to avoid being drafted, and that she worries about his safety, they hide his letters to shield her from the constant threat of his being killed in war. Who is the main character in woman Warrior? Maxine The central character in The Woman Warrior. Shy, awkward, introspective, and intellectual, she describes her anguished childhood years and her coming to terms with two competing cultures, American and Chinese.
Why does Kingston's mother tell her the story of her aunt what message does it send what do you think Kingston wants the reader to take away from the talk story?
Kingston's mother tells her the story as a cautionary tale, in the years Kingston begins to menstruate. Such traditions, Kingston says, were thought of as necessary to ensure village stability, especially when the villagers were all related in some way. Why does the narrator's mother tell her the story of her aunt? Her mother made the narrator promise never to tell her father or anyone else about her aunt because she brought great dishonor to her family. The narrator knows that she is braking this promise to her mother by telling this story to the reader. This helps explain the title. So they decided to ransack the aunt's home.
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Kingston learns from her mother that she had an aunt who killed herself and her baby by jumping into the family well in China. Kingston's mother tells her the story when Kingston begins to menstruate. Her mother wants her to be careful.
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Fa Mu Lan, whose story is told through Kingston's first-person narrative, trains to become a warrior from the time she is seven years old, then leads an army of men against the forces of a corrupt baron and emperor. She will return to being a wife and mother after her battles are over.
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She tried to establish realities with our strength. The story her mother tells about Kingston's aunt is meant to prevent her from having sex before marriage. What happened to her if you started to menstruate?
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