What is White Tigers About Woman Warrior?

Summary. 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. (Note that the fantasy is written in the first-person, in the present tense.

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How does the warrior woman change after she gives birth Why?

After giving birth to two children in China, Brave Orchid takes the unusual step of attending medical school, after which she works as a doctor in her home village and becomes a very successful healer. Eventually, she gives up her career to join her husband in America. Why does Kingston say that she has participated in her aunt's punishment? Why does Kingston say that she has participated in her aunt's punishment? She has participated in her aunt's punishment by deliberately forgetting about her. She has not asked her details regarding her aunt. The family wanted her to deliberately forget her aunt, and she have.

Correspondingly, how and why does kingston attempt to fill in the gaps of her aunt's story?

Kingston tries to fill in the gaps in her mother's story. Kingston imagines what her aunt was like, how and why she got pregnant, who the father of the aunt's baby could have been, and why the aunt killed herself and the baby. Keeping this in consideration, what does the story no-name woman teach our narrator about chinese culture? This particular tale involves an aunt that the narrator never knew, who was shunned from her family for having an affair. It was through this story that the narrator learned how careful a young woman must be when growing up in the Chinese culture.

One may also ask 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. 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.