A mother-daughter relationship in The Warrior Woman“Whenever she had to warn us about life, my mother would tell stories like this, a story on which to grow. It tested our strength to establish realities” (5). In the book “The Woman Warrior,” Maxine Kingston is primarily interested in Chinese culture and history and connecting them to her emerging American self-perception. One of the main ways she does this is by listening to her mother's stories about the family's Chinese past and applying them to her life. Kingston's mother takes many different approaches to reaching out to her daughter and explaining to her how important it is to stay clean. First, she tells the story of the “No Name Woman,” who is Maxine’s forgotten aunt: ““Now that you’ve started menstruating, what happened to her can happen to you. Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't want to be forgotten as if you were never born” (5), says Maxine's mother. Kingston's aunt was murdered for being involved in this situation. The shame of what Kingston's aunt brought to the family caused them to forget her. This particular debate story is a warning intended to dissuade Kingston from having premarital sex and to instill in her the fear of death and humiliation if she violates the lesson her mother explained to her. Kingston is able to become pregnant, but thanks to the lecture her mother advises her, she keeps her obedient. Brave Orchid tells him this story to open his eyes to Chinese culture. The entire family is affected by our actions. She says, “Don’t humiliate us” (5) because the whole village knew about the pregnant aunt and ravaged the family’s land and house because of it. Maxine tries to ask her mother probing questions about this situation, but her mother... middle of paper ...... thinks about it in this book. Kingston blames his mother for eating pills lying around the house: "You shouldn't take pills that aren't prescribed for you." “Don’t eat the pills you find on the sidewalk, you always told us that. » (100). Now it's time for an ironic role reversal as Maxine counsels her aging mother. At the end of “Shaman,” mother and daughter learn to understand each other better. Brave Orchid accepted that her daughter only visited her once a year because she needed to distance herself. Brave Orchid turned off the lights to let her daughter sleep and said, “'You have to go, Little Dog'” (108). This obviously affected Kingston emotionally. The more mature Kingston now realizes that his mother loves him, even if she never really says it. “The world is somehow lighter. She hasn't called me that in years - a name to fool the gods”(109).