The Woman Warrior

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Shaman At the Western Palace

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Shaman
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Japanese Spy Ghosts Hometown Conversation

 Japanese Spy

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Ironically, fear drives the villagers as mad as the village crazy lady.
In a period of war, when everyone is afraid of harm,
the villagers could not tolerate the crazy lady’s aberrations from the
norm.

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 “Ghosts”

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P.97 Newsboy ghost
P.98 Milk Ghost
P.98 Garbage Ghost
“Ghosts”

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 “Ghosts”

Brave Orchid designated the “ghosts” by their race or

function, which actually gave them a bit more distinction and
humanity.

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 “Hometown”

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 “Hometown”

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 “Hometown”

Kingston only knew China from the stories her parents told
or the stories that came back from relatives.
It did not seem like a place where she could be happy,
but one in which she would be a part of a system in a world that was unknown to her.

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(She has embraced age and the “American fashion” of showing

it, though she could never embrace the fashion of Maoist China.)
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In creating a new talk-story for her new life in America,

Brave Orchid erases her first two children

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By describing herself as “the one with big muscles,”

Brave Orchid means she has the ability to endure the
p.100-109 constant work in this new country
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By revisiting her trauma on to her daughter, Brave

Orchid causes Kingston, too, to worry about air
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raids and babies with painful birth defects.
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At the Western Palace

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