"The Woman Warrior"

After reading the chapter “White Tigers” in the story “The Woman Warrior” by Maxine Hong Kingston, and the critical analysis of the text “Empowerment through Mythological Imaginings in Woman Warrior” by Sue Ann Johnston, I realized that although it wasn't anything too complicated, there was much more to the story than I thought there was. In “White Tigers” the story that Kingston lived through was very similar to the myth of Mulan. She was trained to become a fighting warrior and then fought in the army to protect loved ones. Although this story was written as a memoir of Kingston, Johnston questions in her analysis whether this was written and fiction or non-fiction. I agree just for the fact that at times it does seem as if this really happened to Kingston in her past but then it also seems like it could never have happened just due to modern times. Johnston also see’s this story as poetic in a sense and I also agree with that. Although it wasn’t written in any type of poetic form, it flows throughout the story like a poem would. It’s telling a story but in a very organized and deep sense. “White Tigers” was obviously a very interesting text to read, but Johnston’s critical analysis of the story was so on point it was just as good.