12. Some facts about Ts’ai Yen She had actually been used to the life in barbarians. She had two children there. The Hsiung-nu leader really loved her and treated her well. She actually had complicated feelings when she was told that she could leave, since she had been with her family for 12 years.
17. Loud The boys who were so well behaved in the American school played tricks on them and talked back to them [in Chinese school]. The girls were not mute. They screamed and yelled during recess, when there were no rules; they had fist fights. Kingston, 167
18. Soft Normal Chinese women’s voices are strong and bossy. We American-Chinese girls had to whisper to make ourselves American feminine. Apparently we whispered even more softly than the Americans. Kingston, 172
21. Literary Feature—mixed language I could not understand “I”. The Chinese “I” has seven strokes, intricacies. How could the American “I,” assuredly wearing a hat like the Chinese, have only three strokes, the middle so straight? Was it out of politeness that this writer left off strokes the way a Chinese has to write her own name small and crooked? No , it was not politeness; “I” is a capital and “you” is lower-case. Kingston, 166-167
24. Literary Feature—mixed language That’s what we’re supposed to say. That’s what Chinese say. We like to say the opposite. Kingston, 203
25. Literary Feature—mixed language It was more complicated (and therefore worse) than “dog,” which they say affectionately, mostly to boys. … The river-pirate great-uncle called even my middle brother Ho Chi Kuei, and he seemed to like him best. Kingston, 204
26. Literary Feature—mixed language “You get reparation candy,” she said. “You say, ‘You have tainted my house with sick medicine and must remove the curse with sweetness.’ He’ll understand” “See?” said our mother. “They understand. You kids just aren’t very brave.” But I knew they did not understand. They thought we were beggars without a home who lived in back of the laundry. Kingston, 170-171
33. Quotation I put on my shoes with the open flaps and flapped about like a Wino Ghost. From then on, I wore those shoes to parties, whenever the mothers gathered to talk about marriages. Kingston, 194
34. Exemplify the consequence ofloss of identity If a person cannot solve his/her identity crisis, he/she might become a “crazy” person shaped by society.
43. Kingston used her own “tragic” experience as a Chinese-American female to show how hard the life will be if a person has double identities. Summary
44. Kingston used her own “tragic” experience as a Chinese-American female to show how hard the life will be if a person has double identities. Kingston suggests that people, especially women, take identity crisis seriously and find their own identities, instead of only being driven by relation or society. Summary
46. Source Work cited: Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. New York: Random, 1976. Print. Book cover image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cover_womanwarrior.jpg
