What do you think Kingston means when she writes that her mother's stories tested our strength to establish realities?

She tested our strength to establish realities." The story her mother tells about Kingston's aunt is a cautionary tale, for it is meant to prevent Maxine from engaging in premarital sex. "Now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you.

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Keeping this in consideration, what reasons does the narrator give for hating the silent girl?

The protagonist (the narrator) is conflicted by the quiet girl because she won't speak to anyone at school (man vs. man), by the nature of society because she is Asian American and doesn't fit in at her school with the other children (man vs. How does the narrator try to make the silent girl talk? The narrator knows the quiet girl can talk because she heard her read aloud in class. The narrator focuses on the American and Chinese girls' voices in the story.

Accordingly, when was no name woman written?

"No Name Woman" is a short story written by Maxine Hong Kingston and was included in her book The Woman Warrior,with the first publication date in 1975. How old is Fa Mu Lan when she could fight? 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-even pretending to be a man herself-against the forces of a corrupt baron and emperor.

How does Kingston use Footbinding symbolically as part of her commentary on women's roles in Chinese culture?

Bound Fee. Just as the binding of feet represents both restriction and-in the most one-sided of ways-love and support, so is Kingston both frustrated by Chinese customs envious of women "loved enough to be supported." What does the rabbit do for Fa Mu Lan when she is in the mountains of the White Tigers explain the significance? The first section of "White Tigers" is Kingston's childhood fantasy of living the life of Fa Mu Lan, the woman warrior-a story that derives from one of Brave Orchid's talk-stories. At Kingston's hungriest moment, a rabbit jumps into the fire to sacrifice himself to appease her hunger.