oh nah nahhhhh, what's my nameeee?

"No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston is quite a compulsive essay. I guess that it's for the fact that Kingston give space for the reader to collect the minor details and try to put it together into a mystery. For example, when she says that " I wonder whether he masked himself when he joined the raid on her family. " She gives her own ideas to the readers, maybe he planned this or maybe he just a evil being. She gives different plots, such as maybe her aunt was raped or maybe she wanted to commit adultery. The one thing that I noticed is that she doesn't talk down about her aunt. Even though her mother told her and warned her that, " Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. " All cultures have their own consequences to the way that people act out with their own family and friends. It doesn't amaze me the fact that only men have a saying and are able to talk down towards women. Maybe this is a way of Kingston to go against the " rules " and try to eliminate the cycle her family have.