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Community in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'No Name Woman' and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

Women's Invisibility

In five pages this paper analyzes 'invisible' women not by choice in No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston and The Color Purple by...

Walker: “Everyday Use”

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Language and the Power It Wields Demonstrated in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how the power of language is considered in Margaret Atwood's essay 'An End to Audience' and how ...

Maxine Hong Kingston: “No Name Woman”

only author struggling with this issue; the subject is frequently explored today by people of many ethnic backgrounds. For instanc...

Multiple Viewpoints in "The Woman Warrior"

Kingston makes much of the idea of the oral tradition, and her inability to partake in it. The ability to use language is vital fo...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

Example of an Interpretive Essay

The big red bus slowed to a stop. Wittman got off to stretch his legs for a moment. He almost bumped into the woman that he...

Powerful Women and Literature

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

duality of the cultures are reflected in various ways by Kingston, the constant switching between myth and reality, Chinese emotio...

Contemporary Literature and How Emotions Are Portrayed

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...

Important Post Second World War Works of Literature

Don Delillos "White Noise" and Maxine Hong Kingstons "The Woman Warrior." Invisible Man As mentioned, many argue that Ralph El...

“Everyday Use” - The Importance of the Story’s Title

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Everyday Use and Maggie

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

Protagonist Monologues

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

Comparison and Contrast: Alice Walker and James Baldwin

struggle to find her identity, an African American identity, is obviously influenced by the white society. This is noted when her ...

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

Maxine Hong Kingston and Maya Angelou: Autobiographical Reflections of Women

and Global Perspectives. Ed. Shirley Hune et al, WA: Washington State UP, 1991. 225-38. Kingston, Maxine Hong. 1976. The Woman ...

Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts and China Man by Maxine Hong Kingston

convey false information. Instead her style is meant to expose the reader to cultural considerations in a manner which few reader...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Personal Narrative Essays

In five pages personal narrative essays 'Once More to the Lake' by E.B. White and 'Silence' by Maxine Hong Kingston are contrasted...

'Raise the Red Lantern' and 'Woman Warrior'

This paper consisting of 5 pages compares the ideas contained in the film Raise the Red Lantern' to the text written by Maxine Hon...

Maxine Hong Kingston, Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Literature

In five pages this paper examines postmodernism in a comparative analysis of Tripmaster Monkey and His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Ki...

Sense of Self in The Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

In six pages this paper examines Kingston's autobiography in terms of how a woman's sense of self is bolstered by the author throu...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...