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Character Analysis: The Woman Warrior

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Fitting Into American Culture In the excerpt from The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston reveals the importance of fitting in by retelling the hardships of a 1st generation immigrant in the American school system. Embarrassed by her accent and broken English, Kingston refused to talk in Kindergarten, a problem many 1st generation immigrants have faced. Kingston’s self-esteem was completely based on how her voice sounded, claiming that, “lt spoils my day with self-disgust when I hear my broken voice come skittering out into the open” (132). Self-worth and the idea of fitting in goes hand in hand, so when Kingston felt as if she could not fit in because of her voice, her self-worth went down, straining the importance of how abandoned one feels
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