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Use these essay questions as writing and critical thinking exercises for all levels of writers, and to build their literary analysis skills by requiring textual references throughout the essay.
Scaffolded/Short-Answer Essay Questions
Student Prompt: Write a short (1-3 paragraph) response using one of the below bulleted outlines. Cite details from the book over the course of your response that serve as examples and support.
1. One of Kingston’s main challenges is finding her personal power.
2. Throughout The Woman Warrior, Kingston explores the tension between herself and her mother as a conflict rooted in the sex-based expectations that she finds stifling. Yet, Kingston’s mother defied many of those expectations in her own life, and later the two women find a sense of commonality.
By Maxine Hong Kingston