Maxine Hong Kingston - The Woman Warrior 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureRevisionUniversityNone Created by: hannahgwmartinCreated on: 16-01-19 13:16 "She jumped into the family well [...] it is as if she had never been born" p. 3 Aunt's death 1 of 34 "America, the Gold Mountain" p. 3 America 2 of 34 "Don't humiliate us" p. 5 Mother's warning 3 of 34 "What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?" p. 6 Chinese tradition 4 of 34 "To be a woman, to have a daughter in starvation time was a waste enough" p. 7 Daughter, waste 5 of 34 "I have tried to turn myself American-feminine" p. 13 American-feminine 6 of 34 "I have believed that sex was unspeakable and words so strong and fathers so frail that 'aunt' would do my father serious harm" p.18 words, father, harm 7 of 34 "we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves" p. 23 wives, slaves 8 of 34 "She said I would grow up a wife and slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan. I would have to grow up a warrior woman" p.24 wife, slave, warrior 9 of 34 "My American life has been such a disappointment " p.55 american life 10 of 34 "I was getting straight As for the good of my future husband's family, not my own. I did not plan ever to have a husband" p. 57 grades, husband 11 of 34 "There is a Chinese word for the female I - which is 'slave'" p.57 female, slave, Chinese 12 of 34 "Isn't a bad girl almost a boy" p.57 bad girl, boy 13 of 34 "Even now China wraps double binds around my feet" p. 58 China, feet 14 of 34 "My brain had momentarily lost its depth perception. I was that eager to find an unusual bird" p.60 eager, bird 15 of 34 "It is confusing that birds tricked us" p.62 birds 16 of 34 "But I am useless, one more girl who couldn't be sold" p. 63 girl, sold 17 of 34 "I wrap my American successes around me like a private shawl; I am worthy of eating the food" p. 63 American success 18 of 34 "she is not thinking about her appearance" p.68 mother, doctor, appearance 19 of 34 "Not many women got to live out the daydream of women" p.72 women, daydream 20 of 34 "' You will bring science to the villages'" p.74 science, village 21 of 34 "My mother may have been afraid, but she could make herself a dragoness" p.79 mother, dragoness 22 of 34 "You have no power over a strong woman" p.83 power, woman 23 of 34 "My mother's enthusiasm for me is duller than for the slave girl" p. 97 enthusiasm, slave 24 of 34 "'When I grow up, I want to be a slave,' and my parents laughed, encouraging her" p.97 grow up, slave, sister 25 of 34 "felt for penis or no penis" penis 26 of 34 "'the midwife or a relative would take the back of a girl baby's head in her hand and turn her face into the ashes" p.102 girl baby, ashes 27 of 34 "'I'm the one with big muscles'" p.124 mother, muscles 28 of 34 "I am really a Dragon, and she is a Dragon, both of us born in dragon years" p.130 dragon, mother, dragon 29 of 34 "'You Americans don't take life seriously'" p.178 American, serious 30 of 34 "A dumbness - a shame - still cracks my voice in two, even when I want to say 'hello' casually" p.195 dumb, voice 31 of 34 "I knew the silence had to do with being a Chinese girl" p. 197 silence, Chinese girl 32 of 34 "We American-Chinese girls had to whisper to make ourselves American-feminine" p.204 whisper, American-feminine 33 of 34 "'dustpan-and-broom' (but that's a synonym for 'wife')" p.243 dustpan, wife 34 of 34
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