An essay on “The Women Warrior” by Maxine Hong Kingston written in the first person.
Explains the effects that this novel had on the writer and how she can relate to it on a personal level. Looks at the effects of secrets on a family and how people are not truly appreciated until they are gone.
“”You must not tell anyone,” my mother said, “what I am about to tell you? (Kinston 1989). With this one sentence Kingston sets the tone and mood of the book. She lets the reader know from the very first words that this is a book of secrets and forbidden knowledge. Every family has secrets, those skeletons in the closet that have been there for generations, locked away by fear and shame. This book captured me the same way as the “Joy Luck Club” and “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” that wonderful blend of ethnic tales and cultures, generation verses generation adjusting to the old and the new.”