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Realism VS Imagery In The Woman Warrior, author Maxine Hong Kingston, describes the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to find a balance between two cultures and to find her own identity within them. Kingston's novel abounds with imagery, from the ghosts and barbarians, to the different colors of black, white, and red. What is real is that through her stories, she makes it evident that she experiences many conflicts between what she is being taught at home and what she is experiencing in American society. As appose to The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien, where many descriptions and realism were used to capture the audience and draw them into the actual events in the story, allowing them to feel the burden of emotional and physical weight on the characters, who were fighting to preserve their sanity and lives. The vivid detail and realistic narration were only tools used by the author to prepare a story to be more believable but it can also mean what the men were carrying internally such as grief, pain, misery, and love. “…the war was entirely a matter of posture and carriage, the hump was everything, a kind of inertia, a kind of emptiness, a dullness of desire and intellect and consci