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In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston struggles with her identity which reflects her gender and cultural ideas. The composer develops the complex novel by stretching it between memory and fiction, which causes responders to wonder if the stories she recounts are factual or just some ‘story-telling’. She wants to show the responders that she is a woman warrior. She shows this by telling stories of which she has experienced or her family has gone through. The novel consists of many difficult issues that Kingston encounters in having a Chinese-American identity. Kingston once told her Hawaiian teacher, “We Chinese can't sing "land where our fathers died." She argued with me about politics, while I mean because of curses.” She reflects upon the difficulty of aligning herself with American culture in ways that would seem to contradict the customs of her more traditional, Chinese heritage. Many elements of Western culture differ significantly from the Asian culture. These differences make assimilation difficult for both immigrants and the children of immigrants, who are often raised as if they were in their parents’ country of birth. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane's childhood lacks love and the experiences nec