The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is a journey to self-understanding. Maxine H. Kingston was born in the United States, but her parents are from China. In the first chapter, No Name Woman, we learn about Maxine's aunt who was disowned from the family, removing her name like she was never born. We see how women were treated differently. The aunt was hiding from her pregnancy from her family because her husband had been gone for years, so it did not make sense to anyone that she was pregnant. It was not her choice to
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