In "No Name Woman, Kingston often becomes caught up in her own fantasy world, in which she is separated from reality. ... The reader can see glimpses of this when she thinks: "Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? ... "No Name Woman" is a piece of literary work that illustrates the Chinese culture some sixty years ago. ... Kingston writes this book in part to show the reader that she has begun to f...

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• Grade Level: High School

Therefore, he has to borrow money from his good friend Charley to pay for repairs. ... Shortly after his boss, Howard, fires him from the firm, he talks to his boys and warns them that the woods are burning. ... The impact from losing his job forces Willy to realize his dreams are collapsing. ... Choudhuri further suggests that Willy "was selling himself to ensure personal fulfilment, and peace and happiness in the family" (as qtd. in Bloom 69). ...

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We may conclude that the family lost some of its former functions or now shares them with other institutions.6 Keniston defines the family today as the "needy" family that needs and uses support in raising children, and thus, this family estranges its children and participates in the breaking down of family relationships in the future.7 It may be said that democracy separates and isolates the members of the family from each other, too. ... But, later on, the modern family cuts itself off from the world. ... "10 The American dramatist‟s concept of family is centered on his dream of t...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School