At beginning, Maxine Kingston's mother, who was call Brave Orchid, told her stories when she was young for she would not be depending on others. At the end of the book, Maxine Kingston, discovers how to handle her two different cultures of life one America and the other Chinese.
Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong kingston was born oct27,1940 in stock California. Maxine Hong Kingston created a world wide sensation with her 1976 work. The Woman Warrior: memoirs of a girl hood among the ghosts and emerged one of the leading contemporary chinese American writers. Before she became a famous writer, she was an educator, waking in California and Hawaii. She had earned a bachelor's degree in 1962 from the university of California, Berkeley.
Maxine the first of six American born children in the family grew in up stockton's China town. Where her parents owned a laundry business, she never felt that her parent encouraged her to do well in her academic studies, in part because in their conservative Chinese culture women often are not expected to have careers outside of the home.
Kingston works use a clever blend of fantasy, childhood, memories, and family. Brave Orchid Maxine's mother, who attends medical school in China before she joined her husband in America, is the main character Maxine Kingston is shy Awkward, introspective and intellectual; she describes her anguished childhood years.
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