Maxine Hong Kingston's White Tigers

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In “White Tigers,” Maxine Hong Kingston explains the struggle she faces to match her American accomplishments and her Chinese identity. Hong Kingston cannot make her American successes fit into the Chinese expectations of women’s success, and thus she becomes lost and invalidated. Hong Kingston writes, “I could not figure out what was my village. And it was important that I do something big and fine, or else my parents would sell me when we made our way back to China. In China there were solutions for what to do with little girls who ate up food and threw tantrums. You don’t eat straight A’s,” (Hong Kingston 46). In the tale of Fa Mu Lan that Hong Kingston imagines herself in earlier in the chapter, Mu Lan saves her village and proves herself
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