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In the book The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Kingston, a story of a girl trapped between the culture of her family's past and the culture currently surrounding her is presented. The girl, Maxine, enters into conflict with her mother and what can be explained as an old and traditional China. Maxine's own beliefs are found in the newer American way of life with her attempts to assimilate to the culture, making it difficult for her to feel any relation between the two very different environments. It is through these tribulations that Maxine is a "woman warrior" coming to age as a Chinese-American.
Maxine, being of the first generation of her family to be born in America, only knows about China from what she hears in her mother's "talk-stories." These stories are told to act as lessons on how the Chinese people were and should be, and are often vary critical. In "No Name Woman," the tale of Maxine's aunt who was shunned from her family for having an affair shows how careful young......

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