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Analysis Paper One In The Woman Warrior, the author chronicles her successful struggle to rectify her Chinese heritage and her American upbringing; the acceptance of the resulting combination turns her into a modern day warrior woman. Kingston struggles for the cultural acceptance of Chinese-American woman among both the Chinese, who do not value women, and Americans, who have trouble accepting non-European immigrants as beneficial American citizens. Americans, who do not understand her heritage, scorn her Chinese traditions. In Chinese culture it is common to "talk-story" and in such a way pass on folk tales that contain moral teachings to the listener. A great deal of Kingston's book relates these talk-stories to the reader and then Kingston goes on to write about a portion of her own past (Analysis). "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 a forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful (p3)." Warrior Woman opens with the first talk-story, "No Name Woman", the story of the shame Kingston's aunt brought to the family by having a child while her