Notes from Customer:
Below is the assignment. Please only use one of the questions below and use a question that only uses The Woman Warrior by Kingston book. Preferably use question number 5 however you could also use number 6 or 7. Also, there should be a decent amount of quotes used in the essay. Please cite those properly (MLA) with page numbers which must match with the paper copy of the book. If you have any questions please message me and I will help as much as I can.
Write a 3-5 page essay using one of the below questions to analyze our autobiographies. You should use quotes from Kingston or Bechdel to answer these questions. But some topics also allow you to use the autobiographies we read earlier in the semester or the theoretical essays we’ve been reading all semester.
Kingston’s memoir incorporates myth and family history, as well as personal experience in its fabric. What does Kingston achieve by writing this way instead of using the standard material of autobiography: non-fictional events from the writer’s own life? You can perhaps compare Kingston’s book to Franklin’s or Bechdel’s as a way into this topic.
Use Joan Lidoff’s essay to examine Bechdel’s Fun Home. (Remember, we used Lidoff’s essay to analyze how Kingston’s memoir displays the intertwined female sense of self?) Does Bechdel also have an intertwined sense of self? You can look at how her identity is influenced by her father, and by the literature that is so vital to her.
The title of Kingston’s book is The Woman Warrior. Using Joan Lidoff’s piece, discuss how Kingston’s book adapts the genre of autobiography to the female gender. Look specifically at what Lidoff has to say about fluid boundaries, multiple perspectives, and the collective voice. You might compare Kingston’s voice with Franklin’s.
Analyze how words and images interact in the Comics medium to make meaning in Fun Home. You should use the selections from McCloud’s Understanding Comics to inform your discussion.
Discuss how Kingston finds her “voice” in the last chapter of The Woman Warrior. Perhaps look at Kingston’s relationship with her mother.
The Woman Warrior is about learning to live with a hyphenated existence, part Chinese, part American. Discuss what Kingston has to say about living in two worlds. How does she reconcile them? (If you feel she does).
There are many symbolic events and objects in The Woman Warrior. Discuss how Kingston uses them to make points about her life.
