“After I grew up, I heard the chant of Fa Mu Lan, the girl who took her father’s place in battle” (20).
What is storytelling?
200
doctor
What did brave orchid want to become?
200
Cultural Clash
What is the dilemma of Kingston who is living in two worlds (Chinese family/ US society)?
200
Cultural Clash
What is Kingston's major bewilderment?
200
Women's roles
In Woman Warrior, what aspect of marginalized life is postmodernism emphasizing?
200
Then screaming a mighty scream and swinging two swords over my head, I chared the leaders; I released my bloodthirsty army and my straining war-horse.” (37)
What is warrior?
300
Sitting Ghost
What is the name of the ghost brave orchid witnesses in school?
300
talk-story
How does parents teach wisdom/moral lessons to their children?
300
Brave Orchid
Who influenced Kingston to be an independent woman?
300
meta-fiction
What does postmodernism dramatize about (claim inevitable)?
300
“ Apparently we whispered even more softly than the Americans. Once a year the teachers referred my sister and me to speech therapy, but our voices would straighten out, unpredictably normal, for the therapists.” (171)
What is voice?
400
Parents
What does Fa Mu Lan see in the drinking gourd?
400
Fa Mu Lan, Ts’ai Yen
Who are the two dominant women warriors?
400
No-name Aunt's story
Which story did Brave Orchid tell Kingston in order to teach her a lesson?
400
greater understanding of history as narrative
How does postmodernism rethink history?
400
”Don’t tell anyone you had an aunt. Your father does not want to hear her name. She has never been born”” (15).
What is voice?
500
Drinking sap from an ancient tree
What does Fa Mu Lan must do in order to gain immortality?
500
infanticide and suicide
What is no-name aunt's act of defiance?
500
Communism
From what was Kingston's family suffering from back in China?
500
post-modernism
What is woman warrior?
500
”One twilight,” my mother began, and already the chills travelled my back and crossed my shoulders; the hair rose at the nape and the back of my legs,”” (87).