Storytelling and tradition a comparison of Maus and The Woman Warrior

The story I read in this semester, Maus and The Woman Warrior, look very different, I think they all contain similarities that can easily be compared. Maxing Hong Kingston's female warrior deals with stories and traditions from racial problems like Art Spiegelman's Maus. These books are not just racial. Culture, identity, language, heritage, history, and discrimination are all part of the mouse and female fighter.

Maxine Hong Kingston novel The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston 's novel "Women Warrior" is a collection of semi - autobiographical short stories about her childhood story in California. - As new generation people become responsible for their people's history and cultural succession, ancestral costumes are maintained, but are modified to adapt to current social standards. Through Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography "Women Warrior", myth memoir, and her mother's story, the writer gained a sense of empowerment when he found his identity.

Storytelling is part of finding sound. Through the story of conversation (or a modified oral tradition), women find their voice and power. Brave Orchid shows to Kingston that she is a powerful woman who can not only be able to become a doctor, but also can endure all kinds of terrible experiences, as well as overcome ghosts and destroy. Kingston finding her power as a writer recycling her voice and her heritage by writing a memoir in the form of a story and integrating her role with the role of female fighter Fa Mu Lan It was. Rescues her village through memory, not drowning it in a fully assimilated American life

The first role is the victim. As the traditional male character is a warrior, this is the traditional role of women in war. In the medieval tradition, the foundation of the military tradition of Western heroes, soldiers struggled to protect the victims of "fair women". At the same time, enemy warriors regard "fair women" as "bad women" and are suitable for raped or murdered enemies. A woman who does not protect herself will humiliate the warrior and hurt the morale. During these wars, and especially in the south, women are adversely affected by these wars because of the absence of regular male guardians and donors due to actual destruction of houses and land and occasional physical attacks I will. However, the experience of a true woman is usually not consistent with the stereotype "fair woman". Many women were not crying there sitting and waiting for their "knight" to come back, but lived alive and rebuilt