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Examples from The Woman Warrior:

“I have believed that sex was unspeakable and words so strong and fathers so frail that "aunt" would do my father mysterious harm. I have thought that my family, having settled among immigrants who had also been their neighbors in the ancestral land, needed to clean their name, and a wrong word would incite the kinspeople even here. But there is more to this silence: they want me to participate in her punishment. And I have”

Through her aunt’s story, Kingston begins to question her families stories, realizes that her family always set the rules and that she is not able to decide for herself

“The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are “report a crime” and “report to five families.” The reporting is the vengeance—not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words. And I have so many words— “chink” words and “gook” words too—that they do not fit on my skin.”

By telling Fa Mulan’s story Kingston is able to realize that writing is a form of combat and that her words are powerful, empowers her to write more

“Maybe because I was the one with the tongue cut loose, I had grown inside me a list of over two hundred things that I had to tell my mother so that she would know the true things about me and to stop the pain in my throat.”

In the chapter, Kingston is using stories from her childhood with a mix of stories from her mother to describe the change she went through from adolescence to adulthood.

The House on Mango Street Examples

“All brown all around, we are safe. But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and our car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight.”

Shows how much ethnicity plays into esperanzas self identity, making fun of white people who are afraid to come into her neighborhood

“I want to be

like the waves on the sea

like the clouds in the wind,

but I'm me.

One day I'll jump

Out of my skin

I'll shake the sky
like a hundred violins”

Describes a girl who wants to be free but is unable to due to society pushing her back, makes esperanza realize that she is trapped

“They are the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them. Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. Four who do not belong here but are here”

By comparing herself to the trees she is adding to the idea that she is alone, and does not belong on mango str

“I make a story for my life, for each step my brown shoe takes. I say, "And so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked."

“You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.”

“I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much"

Esperanza has come to terms with The House on Mango Street and that where she grows up will always be apart of her and she cannot let that go

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In "The Danger of a Single Story" Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the danger of making assumptions prevents people from authentically connecting with people as individuals. More specifically Adichie claims, “Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize” in other words, if we only hear about a certain people, place or situation from one point of view, we risk accepting one experience as the whole truth. By reading multicultural literature it provides the reader with a range of perspectives and reflects on the world’s marginalized voices. In “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros and “The Woman Warrior” by Maxine Hong Kingston, the authors are able to show the change in identity the main characters undergo by telling stories of the people in their community, family and myths.

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In "Should Literature Be Useful?" the author discusses how those who read more fiction tend to be more empathetic. Americans often believe that if something does not provide results, there is no need to take part in it an example would be reading fiction. If people begin to read less fiction, the less people who are empathetic.

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In "Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer" the author is describing an experiment and that individuals who read more fiction are bound to be more empathetic. Author also explains how "deep reading" immerses the brain and makes the reader become more active. More and more young people these days do not understand what deep reading is, due to distractions.

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"You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded."

"That's when we move away. Got to. Then as if she forgot I just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad"

"Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we're dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake"

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"Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs – all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured.

"Occasionally an item provoked a physical reaction: an increase of acid irritation in the upper intestinal tract, a light flush of perspiration at the back of the neck....The sofa, for example. It had been purchased new, but the fabric had split straight across the back by the time it was delivered."
"The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly."

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- being African American
- the struggle to accept herself
- wanting to be someone else??
- coming from a poor family

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Don't let your father know that I told you. He denies her. Now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful"
Kingstons mother warns her that she must uphold traditional Chinese values

It was said, "There is an outward tendency in females," which meant that I was getting straight A's for the good of my future husband's family, not my own. I did not plan ever to have a husband. I would show my mother and father and the nosey emigrant villagers that girls have no outward tendency. I stopped getting straight A's"

"You want a husband, don't you?" said Brave Orchid. "If you don't claim him now, you'll never have a husband. Stop crying," she ordered. "Do you want him to see you with your eyes and nose swollen when that young so-called wife wears lipstick and nail polish like a movie star?

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"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed. About eighty-five years ago they were told that they were free, united with others of our country in everything pertaining to the common good, and, in everything social, separate from the fingers of the hand. And they believed it. They exulted in it. They stayed in their place, worked hard, and brought up my father to do the same."

"You weren't being smart, were you, boy?" he said, not unkindly. "No, sir!" "You sure that bit about 'equality' was a mistake?"

"Then in my mind's eye I see the bronze statue of the college Founder, the cold Father symbol, his hands outstretched in the breathtaking gesture of lifting a veil that flutters in hard, metallic folds above the face of a kneeling slave; and I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding."

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- struggle between Mexican and American culture
- what her role in society is
- her role as a woman
- her role in her family

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Different Version of the Single Story (The Woman Warrior)

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Different Version of the Single Story (The Woman Warrior)

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In the book, it discusses how Chinese women feet were often bound in order to look more feminine but really to confine them to the house. Throughout the book, the author describes situations in which women were looked down upon, but then contradicts with a story of when a woman rises up(?)
Also, in her family many contradictory stories are told, or only pieces and the author has to fill in some of the information on her own.

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Different Version of the Single Story (Invisible Man)

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Different Version of the Single Story (Invisible Man)

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examples-
when the narrator goes to college he describes how the intentions behind the college education, which is supposed to provide racial uplift and a place to grow and learn, but which may simply be another means to keep black people more firmly enslaved.
When the narrator mentions equality when he is giving his speech and the white men get offended. The narrator was top of his class and the white men just brushed him off and used him for their game.
The narrator is portrayed as someone who is attempting and trying to get ahead, but is unable too due to society.

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Different Version of a Single Story (The House on Mango Street)

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Different Version of a Single Story (The House on Mango Street)

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In the book there are several instances where the narrator believes where she lives defines her. When the nun asks if she lives "there" Esperanza feels hurt, as if that is what defines her and that's how people see her. When Cathy speaks poorly of the neighborhood knowing that Esperanza and her family had just moved in.
When she describes some of the stories of the people in her neighborhood, it makes ther reader realize that not everyone in that neighborhood is bad just a generalization that has been made.

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The Single Story that only white people can live a "perfect" life.

The Single Story that only white people can be beautiful because that is what is branded in the media.

Another single story is that only if something is white it can be loved.

The single story that if you are poor you can't come from a loving home.

The single story that looks define a person/thing.

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The character of Pecola from day one is convinced that the only way to be considered beautiful is to be white or light skinned. She sees this in things around her, and it causes her self confidence to falter. A negative self-concept fostered by societal beliefs creates a profound sense of self-loathing. If she begins to believe that people will only love her if she is white then she will resent herself.

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Single Story (The House on Mango Street)

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Single Story (The House on Mango Street)

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The Single Story that women have to depend on men, or wait for a man to "rescue" her.
The single story that American-Mexican women has to be fierce or one that just stays at home.
The single story that Mexicans who come to America don't work hard and take advantage of the benefits of living in America.
The single story that where you live defines who you are.
The single story that if you live in a poor neighborhood you are a bad person.

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Addresses the single story that Chinese Women are useless and disappointing.
The single story that in Chinese culture many contradictory stories are told.
The single story that Chinese women cannot be strong and independent.

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- Chinese Identity (Contradictory stories)
- American Identity
*the narrator believes that she will never truly belong to one group*

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The single story that African Americans are uneducated.
The single story that white people were "helping" African Americans.
The single story that African Americans have the same opportunity as white people.

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- African American
- conflict with self perception
- struggle with invisibility
- other people try to define the narrator
*the narrator is always confronted with questions of his self-identity, and is unable to understand his place in the world. Only once hie withdraws himself from society he is able to confront his invisibility*