The Woman Warrior: A Literary Analysis
How can two novels that are written by completely different people with two different perspectives be able to be so similar to each other without having the same events happen in their lives? Novels that are written through two different points of views must be successful since they are both addressing an important topic that should be addressed by others. The two novels The Joy Luck Club and The Woman Warrior are examples of two books being related which means the topics enveloped in them should be discussed. Both of the novels discuss the importance of the Chinese cultures in the perspectives of females and their roles taken on in society. Many of the women enclosed within the books have had difficulties or challenges in their lives. By
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Many Chinese families have the Chinese tradition held as a priority in their family. One of these practiced Chinese traditions is arranged marriages which are a way of parents not giving their daughters a chance to choose who their future husband will be. The idea of arranged marriages had been practiced in Kingston’s home, Kingston was a fourteen-year-old who had been away from her parents for many years training to become a woman warrior. The day when she had started her menstrual cycle she was not living with her parents. Those she had stayed with while training decided to console her they allowed her to look into a gourd for just that day;when she looked in the gourd she had seen that “[there] was a wedding. [Her] mother was taking to the hosts: ‘Thank you for taking our daughter. Wherever she is, she must be happy now. She will certainly come back if she was alive, and if she is a spirit, you have given her a descent line” (Kingston 31). The age of fourteen was not the youngest age an arranged marriage would be arranged in China, so many young Chinese girls have been deprived of the opportunity to choose the one they would willingly want to spend the rest of their lives with. Specifically, in one Chinese village, a village matchmaker had gone to a young girl’s family to find her, her future groom. Lindo, the young girl, knows others outside her walls or even country do have their chance of choosing who they will be spending their life with, but “This was not [her] case. Instead, the village matchmaker [went to her] family when [she] was just two years old” (Tan 50). Since many young females are forced into arranged marriages the young girls are taught by their mothers to learn
Many Chinese families have the Chinese tradition held as a priority in their family. One of these practiced Chinese traditions is arranged marriages which are a way of parents not giving their daughters a chance to choose who their future husband will be. The idea of arranged marriages had been practiced in Kingston’s home, Kingston was a fourteen-year-old who had been away from her parents for many years training to become a woman warrior. The day when she had started her menstrual cycle she was not living with her parents. Those she had stayed with while training decided to console her they allowed her to look into a gourd for just that day;when she looked in the gourd she had seen that “[there] was a wedding. [Her] mother was taking to the hosts: ‘Thank you for taking our daughter. Wherever she is, she must be happy now. She will certainly come back if she was alive, and if she is a spirit, you have given her a descent line” (Kingston 31). The age of fourteen was not the youngest age an arranged marriage would be arranged in China, so many young Chinese girls have been deprived of the opportunity to choose the one they would willingly want to spend the rest of their lives with. Specifically, in one Chinese village, a village matchmaker had gone to a young girl’s family to find her, her future groom. Lindo, the young girl, knows others outside her walls or even country do have their chance of choosing who they will be spending their life with, but “This was not [her] case. Instead, the village matchmaker [went to her] family when [she] was just two years old” (Tan 50). Since many young females are forced into arranged marriages the young girls are taught by their mothers to learn