Divided into five chapters, each of which is more or less self-contained, Maxine Hong Kingston’s “The Woman Warrior” explores the many forms of adversity that women face. Kingston uses women’s stories to explore their cultural history. As a first-generation Chinese American, she struggles to reconcile her Chinese cultural heritage with her emerging sense of herself as an American. In the memoir’s first chapter, “No Name Woman,” Kingston’s mother, Brave Orchid, tells her daughter about an aunt on Kingston’s father’s side of the family. This aunt, whom Kingston names No Name Woman because the family never speaks her real name, becomes pregnant while her husband is working in America. When No Name Woman no longer can hide her pregnancy from her family and