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This 3 page paper is a summary of and reaction to the story “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This paper summarizes the story, and gives a reaction to it. Discussion The story begins with one of the most memorable opening lines in literature: You must not tell anyone
what I am about to tell you" (Kingston). The reader is immediately pulled into the story with the promise that he or she is about to learn secrets. But what
unpleasant secrets they are: Maxines mother tells her about her fathers sister, an aunt she never knew she had, who got pregnant out of wedlock, delivered the baby herself at
night in a pigsty, and then drowned herself and her child in the village well (Kingston). That is sad, but possibly the most infuriating passage in the story is
the one that describes the way the rest of the village behaved: the night the aunt was to give birth, the other villagers, friends and neighbors, put on masks or
otherwise hid their faces, and destroyed the familys house, stole their belongings and slaughtered their livestock (Kingston). That was when the aunt ran away to deliver her child (Kingston).
Much of the story is really about Kingstons attempt to understand what it means to be Chinese in America. She is not the only author struggling with this issue; the
subject is frequently explored today by people of many ethnic backgrounds. For instance, "Two Ways to Belong in America" by Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian womans attempt to bridge two
cultures. It seems, however, that Chinese-Americans are the group that has the most trouble reconciling their dual heritage, perhaps because tradition is so strong in China, or perhaps because the
East has long been closed to the West. Kingstons narrative also tells us a lot about Chinese culture. The aunts husband is absent from the narrative, having gone to
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