Memoir #1: The Women Warrior

The Women Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, is the first memoir that I am going to be reading. It is about a young women growing up in California as a Chinese-American. The first couple of pages are rather disturbing, starting out with a story about how a young women got pregnant while her husband was away and then killed herself and her newborn baby after the town had ransacked her house. This was the main character's aunt and now her mother is telling her this story, but she can not tell anyone as the father does not want to hear or speak about any of these events. Within the first pages of the chapter it is evident that she is living in a male dominant society that is set it its morals. When choosing this book I was a bit hesitant due to the fact that I did not know much about Chinese culture and society, but now I believe that it will focus mainly on the young girl trying to find her place in society.