Kingston's “No Name Woman”: Community's Role

Part I of Essay
The community plays a significant role in Maxine Hong Kingston’s essay “No Name Woman.” She describes how one can be totally rejected by the community if it’s rules and regulations are violated. Violation is considered a sin. Cultural values mark the community, which in tu ....

Part II of Essay
.... though she had sex against her will, she couldn’t have talked to anyone about it. “My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex” shows that she was not an immoral woman but someone who was forced into having sex. She could not let anyone know what was happening with her. She had no one to listen to her and understand her misery. She did not have anyone to rescue her out of the fateful situation. Her own family treated her as an “outcast”. They made her, the wrongdoer, be left alone. They considered her an offe ....