During the discussin last Thursday the group and I went over a couple of questions about the short story "The White Tiger" which reflected to a couple of good answers that I will now state.
Q) In the story Fa goes through China killing and rampaging to overcome her prejudices. How should Kingston go about defeating her present day prejudices?
A) To overcome her modern day stereotypes we decided that she would need to have lots of confidence in everything she does to grow into her self and to have self control to make a fool of her self and to stay strong.
Q) How does the woman warrior in the story compare to the real life narrator?
A) The exciting victory filled life of the woman warrior is nothing compared to the bland unsuccesful life of the narrator. Her parents always yelled at her for being a woman and how grades werent good enough unlike destroying a dynasty was.
Q) Do you believe the narrator would have become the woman warrior she so wanted to be more so in China than in America.
A)No, because the culture in China is way more discriminant towards women than in America and the ability to get something done is more probable in the states. The saying, "better to raise hens then a girl" says it all for this question.
Q) Compare and contrast Kingstons fantasy to her American life.
A) In the book the fantasy was parallel to her real life becasue they both wanted more for themselves. The woman warrior dresses as man and trained to defeat the emperor and get her family back and in the real world the girl got good grades and tried to make her family proud when she could.
The discussion went quite well with our group because everyone brought such good questions that we could all answer with great thoughts. We learned that women are discriminated against in both China and America and one should speak with their words and confidence rather then fight because not all can be trained by magic elders in the mountains. Through strenght one can accomplish all no matter what their sex is. America is a little bit better then China though because we don't have an oppressive government which is why the narrator would be much better off in the states.
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