Summary Of No Name Woman By Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston writes the essay "No Name Woman" where she recounts the time her mother revealed to her a secret part of their family's history. The story includes Maxine's aunt who was forced into suicide after becoming pregnant outside of her marriage, and how the family and her village no longer recognizes the aunt's existence. It is through this story that the reader learns of the overarching conflict between Maxine's aunt and her family and how this story affects Maxine and her identity. The central conflict between Maxine's aunt and her family causes Maxine to struggle with recognizing her own cultural identity because she is caught between her parent's Chinese culture, her American culture and her personal feelings towards the two.
Maxine's mother and father grew up in a strict Chinese culture that places men, the patriarchy, as the highest authority in society. In this culture, women are left with little say in their lives and forced to do whatever their family decides for them. Maxine explains this aspect of culture when she says, "My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose" (Kingston 386). For the most part, the woman assumes the role of the caretaker to the children, her husband and their household. Chinese society gives great emphasis on following this strict structure for women. As a result, there is great shame upon women who disturb these well–kept unspoken rules of society. Women
No Name Woman Summary
A subheading within the family section is called "permission to speak" this section persuades students to write their story without worrying about the opinions of others. Subsequently, the "No Name Women," is about a girl who is told by her mother at the very begin that "[y]ou must not tell anyone . . . what I'm about to tell you," instantly we are told that the story she is sharing was meant to be a secret. Although, Kingston was supposed to keep this to herself she decides to share her story. Similar, to the chapter's suggestion Kingston, drowns out the voices of her family member telling her to not tell the story. It is important to note that every writer has a purpose for sharing each story, ad those who succeed are the ones that do not
Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman
A person's identity cannot be given to her, instead a person must achieve a sense of her character through personal experience and self–reflection. In "No Name Woman", Maxine Hong Kingston recalls the events of her aunt's life in the vague world of her Chinese roots. The story of her aunt is told by her mother and Kingston recreates the events into an exploratory story to help herself figure out what part of her identity is Chinese and help her better understand the Chinese culture. In retelling her aunt's story, Kingston seeks to reconcile both her Chinese and American identities and mold her own identity as a result. Kingston, a first generation American, finds that as a result of her cultural...show more content...
Kingston's story seeks meaning in the Chinese culture system in order to strengthen her individual identity. It also shows that certain aspects of the people and traditions of a cultural background can be disturbing at times. "To be a woman, to have a daughter in starvation time was enough... Women in the old China did not choose (Kingston 6)." The Chinese community that held the most meaning for Kingston's cultural identity had been lost somewhere in the past. The only knowledge Kingston has of anything Chinese had come from her mother, but that was not enough for her. She has only vague memories and imaginations of such a community that serve as a backdrop for the goal she seeks in strengthening her identity in relation to her ancestral and cultural makeup.
For Kingston, she had become separated from part of her heritage. She struggled in attempting to understand the meaning of this heritage in a world that is different from the older generations. She illustrates this confusion and difficulty in attempting to understand her cultural roots when she says, "Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese and what is the movies? (Kingston 5)." Kingston wants to tap into this old world her parents and ancestors belong to in order to
No Name Woman Summary
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In the dark of the night, white–masked villagers storm a small farm, killing the livestock before circling the small house. They raid the house, smearing blood on the wall and destroy everything in their path. They find a young woman waiting in the corner, clutching protectively her engorged stomach. An old woman with wild eyes sweeps a broom through the air. The invaders chant "'Pig.' 'Ghost.' 'Pig'."(309) "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston, opens with Kingston's mother telling her a family secret: "In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born." Her family has intentionally forgotten this sister because she brought them humiliation by having a child outside of her marriage. Her mother reveals this story to her daughter as a warning, to teach her the "right" values: "what happened to her could happen to you....show more content...
Ackerman goes through these sessions in order to understand what happened to her. She wants to know what in her childhood has affected her as an adult. She is trying to find the truth in her own memories. This is a tricky line for her since she is inputting in her perspective as an adult. When hypnosis happens, many times the memories are distorted or completely made up. She may have imaged some parts of her memories to coincide with her adult mind. However, it is the action of trying to get those memories in the first place that shows that her past is affecting the present. She is unsure of what is the truth. During the story she makes it clear that in the sessions she only allows herself to remember what she wants to. This furthers the fact that her memories may be unreliable. Still like Kingston she wants to understand what happened in the past. SHOW WHAT ACKERMAN HELPS TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT
No Name Woman, By Maxine Hong Kingston
"No Name Woman", by Maxine Hong Kingston, is a story about a woman named Maxine that comes from a Chinese–American background. As Maxine is slowly transitioning from a girl to a young woman, her mother decides to tell her a story about her father's sister who had been impregnated by a man from her village. Her child was born out of wedlock one night. Once the villagers heard about this, they all raided her house. They slaughtered their livestock and destroyed their belongings. Her aunt had brought shame on the entire family by violating the village's moral standards. The aunt and the child were found in the family well the next day after committing suicide. Since Maxine was told to never ask about her aunt, she began imaging what had happened
No Name Woman By Maxine Hong Kingston
The literary piece that I chose is the short true story 'No Name Woman' by Maxine Hong Kingston and 'Sweat ' by Zola Neale Hurston.
Thesis & Summary: 'No Name Woman' by Maxine Hong Kingston
The submissive role of women in the society and being declared as an outcast for adultery in the Chinese society is the main theme of the article. 'No Name Woman' describes the gender conflict present in China during the 1920's. Women at this point were not considered to have freedom of choice in the then conservative Chinese society. The author's aunt is a newly wedded girl whose husband immigrated to the United States seeking for greener pastures. This period marked a long period of famine where most families had a hard time getting basic amenities.
The woman is brought up in a paternal society where the men have the say while women should just accept whatever is asked of them. She is submissive and it is during her stay at the village that a man probably without her consent gets her pregnant. The article also reviews the societal conflict of cheating and adultery for married couples (Kingston, 2010). The nameless woman gets impregnated years after her husband is in the US becoming an outcast in the village. The village later organizes for a raid after home where people destroy property and kill animals in the girls' home. She commits suicide as a result of this societal conflict by drowning herself and her newly born on the family well. Since she lowered the family's respect for
Theme Of No Name Woman
A common theme in both stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston is sexism and how some women struggle to find voices in chauvinist societies. The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" has a husband that is very controlling and she must fight against the rigid role of housewife imposed upon her. In "No Name Woman" the narrator describes her aunt who is severely punished by her village for being impregnated by a mysterious man. Both stories demonstrate struggles that are exclusive to women, while illuminating the destruction that occurs to these women because of the oppression they receive from men. The women in the stories suffered because of their sexist societies. Thus these stories...show more content...
The narrator laments, "there comes John, and I must put this away, –he hates to have me write a word" (Gilman 3). In other words, the narrator is not free to ask as she pleases and is forced to write in secret because her husband will be angry. This proves that her husband limits her actions while illuminating the hierarchical nature of their marriage. He is also taking away her freedom to decide who she is because he is forcing her to only be a housewife when she really wants to be a writer. The narrator expresses, "I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal– having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition" (2). Basically, it's not the act of writing that is tiring, it is hiding from her husband that exhausts her. This shows that she would be much happier if her husband would cease his controlling behavior. The narrator states, "I lie down ever so much now...Indeed he started the habit by making me lie down for an hour after each meal" (10). In other words, her husband has limited her options so much that all she can do is lay in bed all day. This oppressive treatment leads the narrator to act in peculiar
No Name Woman, By Maxine Hong Kingston
Many consider America to be the melting pot, and they're not wrong. It houses members of many nations ranging from Mexico to Russia. Surrounded by foreign influences and numerous other cultures, they struggle to determine which traditions from their heritages they should hold onto and which foreign customs they should embrace. A Chinese–American, Maxine Hong Kingston is familiar with this dilemma. In her piece "No Name Woman", Kingston explores this struggle by sharing the tragic story of her aunt's pregnancy. Within her piece, she journalistically reports her aunt's story in her mother's words and fictionally narrates some of her aunt's possible behaviors because of its lack of detail. She also explains several Chinese customs and...show more content...
To fill in missing details of her aunt's story, Kingston decides to craft a possible reality for her aunt in a narrative mode that resonates throughout the rest of the piece. As a possibility, she writes that her aunt might have been obsessed with her appearance in order to please her lover. Kingston proposes, "To sustain her being in love, she often worked at herself in the mirror, guessing at the colors and shapes that would interest him, changing them frequently..." (Kingston 328). She continues expanding upon her aunt's beauty rituals by describing how she might have plucked hairs or gotten rid of an unwanted mole. Kingston has no way of knowing whether or not her aunt really did obsess over appearance. Kingston also addresses the origin of her aunt's relationship with her lover. Thinking aloud on paper, Kingston explores the possibility that her aunt "encountered him in the fields or on the mountain where the daughters–in–law collected fuel.... He was not a stranger because the village housed no strangers. She had to have dealings with him other than sex" (Kingston 326). Kingston continues by suggesting that maybe this "lover" raped her aunt. While the instances she is presenting may not be true, Kingston's narration succeeds in providing readers with a context of what her aunt may have experienced. The aunt might have entered into the
Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior – No Name Woman
The excerpt, "No Name Woman", from Maxine Hong Kingston's book, Woman Warrior, gives insight into her life as a Chinese girl raised in America through a tragic story of her aunt's life, a young woman raised in a village in China in the early 1900s. The story shows the consequences beliefs, taught by parents, have on a child's life. Kingston attempts to figure out what role the teachings of her parents should have on her life, a similar attempt for many of us in the world. Lessons taught by our parents, the people who brought us into this world, help guide us into the people we become as adults. Hopefully, the guidance is positive.
Kingston's story about her aunt sends a message as...show more content...
How will Kingston learn when to speak of the bad?
Kingston?s mother spoke of the aunt only as a lesson to her daughter. "Whenever she had to warn us about life, my mother told stories that ran like this one, a story to grow up on." (Kingston, 321) Kingston learned, from her mother, that her aunt committed suicide because she shamed herself, her family and her village by becoming pregnant from a man other than her husband. Kingston, a young woman at the time, was told, "Now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don?t humiliate us. You wouldn?t like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful." (Kingston, 321) This sounds like a threat, not a lesson for the wise. What could Kingston have possibly learned from her mother?s story? Perhaps, we will not love you if you do not follow our family rules.
Not once in the story about her Aunt was Kingston told what her aunt was like as a person. The person did not matter. Kingston was left to use her own imagination. It appears that Kingston, like many of us, had to use her own thoughts to make sense of why her Aunt was forgotten, why she never existed. Yes, her aunt committed adultery, whether it be through rape, love or submission, as Kingston points out as possible reasons for her aunt becoming pregnant, but to teach a child that your life is nothing because of a mistake
Analysis Of Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman
Maxine Hong Kingston is telling a tragedy caused by gender discrimination in her essay "No Name Woman." She is a first generation Chinese American. Her mother consistently tells her about the Kingston family back in the Old Chinese village to remind her of her Chinese root. Kingston's mother tells her that she has an aunt in China with a forbidden existence; they say that her father "has all brothers because it is as if she [the aunt] had never been born" (Kingston 135). In 1924, most men in this village traveled to the "gold mountain", or the United States, to seek their fortunes. Women were left behind. Kingston's aunt was pregnant when her husband was away for years. The villagers realized this soon; "[they] had been counting. On the...show more content...
Under this background, voices from women were largely overlooked. As shown in Kingston's essay, the aunt's voice was ignored in the whole story. First, she did not get to speak up to marry the one she loved because of arranged marriage. Women had no say when choosing their significant other; "[a woman] was lucky that he was her age and she would be the first wife" (Kingston 137). Second, Kingston's aunt did not get to speak up to tell anyone about the child's father. As a result, Kingston had to infer her aunt's situations based on her knowledge.
Strangely though, I identify more with Kingston's mother than Kingston. Being in the same position, I, a Chinese American, see the mother's side has a more solid rationale. Mothers love their children and are willing to do anything to prevent their children from any harm. Kingston's mother overcame her shame to reveal this story to Kingston because she valued Kingston over her shame. Kingston's mother wanted Kingston to learn the lesson, so she would not be harmed in the same way as her aunt. In a similar way, Kingston's aunt loved her child. The aunt was not able to confess her true opinions throughout her entire life. Committing suicide with her child was one of the few decisions that she could make regarding her own life. Her child "was probably a girl; there is some hope of forgiveness for boys" (Kingston 143). Taking her daughter with her was the aunt's way of showing her love.
No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston
The title of the story "No Name Women," described by author Maxine Hong Kingston reveals how gender in Chinese Society, dictates your entire existence. Women's roles in Chinese Society are self–less, and were anticipated to take orders from men without question. What it means to not have a name based on the implication of Kingston's title, "No Name Women" (227) implies that women were less valued than men through custom and habit. Kingston exposes the sadistically unfair discrimination against her aunt through the experience of her mother's "talk–stories." Kingston's mother discloses the consequences her aunt faced in their traditional Chinese village and why Kingston should never be like her aunt. This particular village essentially required women to participate in Hurry–up weddings, to predict adultery from spamming the village with illegitimate children. However "No Name Women," falls victim to adultery, which caused the questioning villagers to take action, by making an example out of Kingston's aunt. First generation Chinese–Americans value the stories they grew up hearing about, however Kingston breaks away from her family's past by undermining the tradition and culture of her childhood village. Kingston's story shows how your identity as a person shortly fades the minute you are born into Chinese society; a female.
Paradoxically Kingston tries to break away from her Chinese culture, by devoting pages of paper; restating her aunt's story. The first line of the book
No Name Women
"No Name Women" by Maxine Hong Kingston explains the different concepts of the looking glass–self; "The looking glass–self is our self–concept, our sense of self, through a kind of social mirror." Nonetheless our self–concept is determined by how others react towards us. "No Name Women" tells a story about a mother revealing a dark family secret. The story begins with the mother telling Kingston that what she is going to tell her is not to be told to anyone. Kingston's mother then reveals to her that her father had a sister in "China" that committed adultery and gave birth to an illegitimate child then drowned herself and the child in the family well. "No Name Women" describes the story of a women being "silenced" because of her...show more content...
She now knows that she has to carry the secret as her own giving her a reason to now live in silence. Kingston feels as if she is punishing herself because she feels as if her aunt is haunting her she states "My aunt haunts me––her ghost drawn to me because now, after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes. I do not think she always means me well." (53) Here you see an example of women trying to find their voice in the Chinese society were men are the ones who make all the decisions. As you see in the beginning of the story it explains in detail how the men were married quiet rapidly to assure they came back home and send money. "No Name Women" also explains that once the aunt was married her parents gave her away, to her husband's parents therefore, taking all her will power away. Kingston gave her aunt the benefit of the doubt by giving her a voice by believing that her aunt was not just a sexual person and that just possibly she had been in love. Kingston also explains how her aunt keep the child's father name to herself while in labor and in death. The aunt could have put the man to shame but she did not giving her a self of empowerment demonstrating that she could give labor and die all on her own. Demonstrating that a man was not always
Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman
"No Name Woman" Essay Prompt
In Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" the author discusses the tale of her suicidal aunt, the "No Name Woman." She illustrates her attitude towards her aunt through the perspectives of her mother, close relatives, and finally her own view. Kingston's feelings for her aunt are torn between hatred and sympathy for the effigy that represents her brother's dishonorable sister. She tries to find justification in the actions of her aunt that led to her demise. Through her essay she is able to display the hold that her aunt has on her and illustrate the connection that they share.
As the author began to develop as a child, her mother warned her of the dangers of love, through the story of her dishonored aunt. She...show more content...
The purpose of this is to witness the steps her aunt took that led to her downfall and avoid these decisions. The author begins to form a connection with her aunt in attempts to live a better honorable life. In this quote, "But perhaps my aunt, my forerunner, caught in a slow life, let dreams grow and fade and after some months or years went toward what persisted," Kingston describes her aunt as her forerunner. This description shows the true feelings that Kingston holds in regards to her aunt. Although she may at times empathize for her aunt, her real feelings are just aimed toward a symbiotic connection. This supports the quote, "Unless I see her life branching into mine, she gives no ancestral help." The author needs to form this connection so that she may be able to avoid the tragedy that her aunt submitted to.
The author uses specific word choices which display her reaction toward her aunt. In a paragraph which discussed the hypothetical meeting and relationship between the aunt and her lover, Kingston speaks with hesitant and undeceive notions. She illustrates this through her repetitive use of the word "perhaps," which brings question to the reliability of the listed occasions provided in that paragraph. She also describes her aunt as her "forerunner," to display that the life of her aunt can be used to create a path for the author to
Summary Of No Name Woman
The society has changed over the year from the early twenty to nowadays. One time, I read this article; it said something about how men and women are the same, but still, have some different qualities. If you really think about it, men are more dominant than women. In the early twenties, women could not get a job because that was the man's job to provide for the family. When men and women would get married that would mean they would be together until you die because there was no such thing as getting divorced. There might be some punishments if a woman doesn't follow what a women is suppose to do, like if a women is with another man while she is still married. In the story, No Name Women by Maxine Hong Kingston, it talks about how all the men in the...show more content...
You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you and never been born. The villagers are watchful" (Kingston 223). This quote is basically saying that the women that got pregnant was forgotten and was never born. I feel like, yes all the villagers had forgotten the women and what she did, but at the end there will always be those little things that will remind them of the women. When the villagers want some water from the well, the well is going to bring back memories of the women and at means that the women wasn't completely forgotten. The source says, "For K., what was dissociated returned with vengeance, concretized in the ghost image of her dead mother. The way she and I have understood it subsequently was that the initial reactions to the pain medications made her feel unable to care for her baby daughter competently" (Yi 29). This quote is saying that when the mother started taking medicine that she started to remember her dead mother, even if the women didn't want to remember her dead mother. I feel like this ties to the story, No Name Women by Maxine Hong Kingston, because in both stories there are people that die and there are gong to be certain things that remind you of the people that
No Name Women Essay
Cultures can shape the identities of individuals. Kingston identity was shape by Chinese and Chinese American culture. "No Name Woman," begins with a talk–story, about Kingston' aunt she never knew. The aunt had brought disgrace upon her family by having an illegitimate child. In paragraph three, "she could not have been pregnant, you see, because her husband had been gone for years" (621). This shows that Kingston's aunt had an affair with someone and the result was her pregnancy. She ended up killing herself and her baby by jumping into the family well in China. After hearing the story, Kingston is not allowed to mention her aunt again. The ideas of gender role–play an important role in both cultures. Kingston in her story "No Name...show more content...
Women did not have any power in Chinese culture. Kingston describes how a man intimidates her aunt by telling her that he will beat and kill her if she tells anyone. It shows men dominance over women because the man is making Kingston's aunt do anything he wants. In paragraph fifteen, "women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil" (623). It adds to how women in China did not have any voice and were supposed to comply with any thing men said. Women had to be protective mothers. Kingston states, "as a last act of responsibility: She would protect this child as she had protect its father... mothers who love their children take them along" (629). This quote means that women would protect their children and always look out for the best interest for them. Women had to provide food for their family and their gods. In paragraph thirteen, "she plants vegetables gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd–shaped tomatoes home from the fields and eats food left for the gods" (622). It shows one duty of women in Chinese culture and the role they had to follow. Women roles in a Chinese American culture are similar to the Chinese roles. Kingston states how hard were for the first generations of Chinese Americans to "figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around out childhoods fit in solid America" (622). Meaning it was hard to stick to the old and the new roles that they had to follow in America. It
Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman
Connie Yonn
Professor Loya
English 105
July 1, 2015
No Name Woman Maxine Hong Kingston, in her book No Name Woman states that on the day of her menstrual, her mom revealed a family secret. She starts by saying "You must not tell no one (42)." In China, her husband's sister drowned herself and the baby in their well. The secret was not only the suicide, but also the existence of the sister–in–law. Her mom said that her husband, father, and brother–in–law left to seek fortune in California, "The Gold Mountain." The majority of men in the village sought money elsewhere because the village crops were suffering. While the men journey out, the women stayed home. Later in time, her mother noticed the sister–in–law was pregnant. Due to the strict...show more content...
The girl would be innocent and too afraid to say anything, but agreed to what was ordered of her. In the movie, the male actor is married and appears as a pervert who eyes the girl and waits for the right moment to approach and take advantage of her. This sometime results with the girl being pregnant and the wife demanding the husband to fire the girl. Many Chinese soap operas are long stories ranging from 1 to 20 episodes. The story line always incorporates a woman getting raped and taking advantage of her innocence. For example, in the movie called Heaven and Earth directed by Oliver Stone in 1994, the character Le Ly leaves her farming village with her mother for Saigon. Fleeing the violence of the Viet Cong after disgracing herself by becoming pregnant with her new master's child, she moved in with her sister, and after financially hustling the troops, she came across Steve Butler who she fall in love with and married. Kingston's aunt's situation reminds me of this movie and some of the soap opera that I had
Literary Analysis of No Name Woman
A short literary analysis of Maxine Kingston's classic "No Name Woman" As part of the first generation of Chinese–Americans, Maxine Hong Kingston writes about her struggle to distinguish her cultural identity through an impartial analysis of her aunt's denied existence. In "No Name Woman," a chapter in her written memoirs, Kingston analyzes the possible reasons behind her disavowed aunt's dishonorable pregnancy and her village's subsequent raid upon her household. And with a bold statement that shatters the family restriction to acknowledge the exiled aunt, Kingston states that, "... [she] alone devote pages of paper to her [aunt]..." With this premeditated declaration, Kingston rebelliously breaks the family's cultural taboo to...show more content...
"Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful." Practically through her mother's indoctrination alone, Kingston was shaped throughout her childhood to respect honor, family, and the very Chinese culture itself. Kingston's mother had once told her, "you must not tell anyone [about your aunt]," and yet in direct defiance, Kingston then "devote[s] pages of paper to her [aunt]." Her actions which defy her mother's strict order are purposely directed through her rebellious intention to do so. Kingston argues that the emigrant generation, which consisted of her mother, had taken their culture with them because "those in the emigrant generations who could not reassert brute survival died young and far from home." Yet raising their progeny, they must teach them what they know and understand. Kingston therefore believes that "they must try to confuse their offspring as well, who, I suppose, threaten them in similar ways – always trying to get things straight, always trying to name the
No Name Woman Analysis
One's identity can't be given before one achieves a sense of character through self–reflection and personal experience. In "No Name Woman" Maxine Hong Kingston narrates the tale of her unmarried aunt who is obliged to suffer the consequences of her pregnancy in the ambiguous world of her Chinese roots. We are not given a name for the narrator nor for her family. We therefore might wonder who might be considered a "No name Woman" both in the book's world and in our own. With the oxymoron No Name Woman, Kingston calls attention to reconcile both her Chinese and American identities to and mold her own identity as a result. This makes us think more deeply about the multiple meanings of Chinese experience in America. Kingston instantly outlines...show more content...
In Chinese culture, water ghosts (Shui gui) are the spirits of people who drowned. Shui Gui are known for lurking in the place they died to drag gullible victims underwater to drown them and take possession of their bodies. With this in mind, the villagers had another reason to keep the aunt's history hidden as they feared to suffer the consequences of slandering her as a shameful outcast. The aspects of Chinese society come together near the end of the story. Kingston's metaphors such as "round moon cakes and doorways" represent the circle of Chinese life: The idea that every villager has a place in the tight circle that is Chinese society. The roundness also indicates that the family functions as a whole, with each generation dependent on the other. Chinese tradition is what fuels this circle; it establishes the cultural norms and practices that define what it means to be Chinese. Not only does this circle represent ancestral relations, it also represents the circle of
What Is The Moral Of No Name Woman
No Name Woman focuses on Kingston's mother telling her story about her aunt's suicide and what lead to such drastic decision. While explaining the story Kingston reveals superstitions that Chinese communities have and how it influenced her aunt's death. Aiaa, the aunt, was the only daughter and was obviously cherished however when she becomes pregnant and her community finds out chaos beginnings. The community start harassing her and her family's house and eventually she becomes isolated. The moral of the story is that womanhood has been considered the worst thing since the dawn of time an Kingston's essay and the Chinese Culture do not fail to fulfill such injustice.
In this essay we can tell that Kingston is just a child since