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Woman Warrior Memoirs Of A Girlhood Among Ghosts

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Pineda 1Abran PinedaMrs.JarrellAP English III22 April 2016Inside the Women Warrior Different cultures determine a woman’s role in society. Some cultures are more stern than others. In China, women must deal with an abundant amount of torment imposed upon thembecause of their culture. In the Woman Warrior Memoirs Of A Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine H. Kingston presents the stories of many women who faced these hardships , and what they wentthrough. By creating strong, courageous female characters in her novel, Kingston was able to explore the many difficult issues that Chinese women dealt with. As an example of one of the hardships that women endured in the story of a young girl who makes a moral mistake and becomes pregnant. Using vivid diction, Kingston creates an image in the reader's head of how and what the enraged villagers did to her house and property. …show more content…

We could hear the animals scream their deaths-the roosters, thepigs, a last great roar from the ox… They ripped up her clothes and shoes and broke her combs, grinding them underfoot… breaking our bowls and banging the pots. They overturned the great waist-high earthenware jugs; duck eggs, pickled fruits, vegetables burst out and mixed in acrid torrent” (Kingston 3). The way she described what was occurring when the neighbors raided her family's home was beautifully painful. This showed us how her mistake was blown out

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