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A 5 page essay on the mother's expectations, legacy, and results of the daughter's efforts in Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography. The writer posits that both the mother and daughter, though retaining separate ideologies, come together in the fact that the daughter becomes a warrior woman, a warrior created through the help of the mother. No additional sources cited.
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Tradition is a set of ideals that parents believe provide direction and strength. In Maxine Hong Kingstons Warrior Woman, it is her mothers story that leads Kingston down the
path of discovery of new traditions. In that quest, Kingston tries to capture her mothers cultural view of how she, as a daughter, should progress and yet remain true
to the Chinese culture. That Kingston recognized the implications of her mothers story is evident in the statement: "She said
I would grow up to be a wife and a slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan" (Woman 24). It is through Fa
Mu Lans voice-the voice of Kingstons culture-that Kingston tries to negotiate a truce between the two sides of her mothers desires for her daughters evolution. In this statement resides
Kingstons admittance that it was her mother who inspired her to evolve, and to do so, she "became a warrior woman" (24).
Forging an identity is especially difficult for someone who is forging a new identity within two cultures-each of them serving a specific purpose for the emerging adult. The
duality of the cultures are reflected in various ways by Kingston, the constant switching between myth and reality, Chinese emotions and American intellect, and the difference in definition between the
cultures of "ugly" and "beautiful" (238). By framing the cultural differences within the myth of Fa Mu Lan, Kingston seeks to reconcile herself to a new culture that is
Chinese and American, feminine and masculine, represented by two languages that are difficult to reconcile-Chinese and English. The difficulty is both relieved and heightened by the fact that in
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