Strong Similarities Between Kingston and Carr's Readings

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they seem to have a lot of similarities concerning this matter. In Kingston’s chapter, there are a lot of examples which shows the severity of Chinese culture and tradition. Firstly, the male dominant society is shown through several examples like “women in the old china did not choose” (64), “the other man, after all, was not much different from her husband, they both gave orders” (64), “outcast table which made wrong doers eat alone” (64), and finally Kingston assumption about the baby being a girl which was the reason she believes her aunt carried the baby with herself to the well (65). All these examples indicate the atmosphere of such strictness in that village. secondly, Kingstone mentions women’s role in that village. She describes them as “great sea snails” who carried corded wood, their children and laundry on their back (66). They only lived by necessity. Similarly, these types of examples are identifiable in Carr’s reading. The snowy night she was born, not feeling the necessity to apologize to his father for being late (38) and thinking that his father was treated as a god (40) are instances of worshipping the man of the family. A woman’s role in Carr’s reading is shown through how her mother obeyed her father and how Carr’s complaint towards his father troubled her and shocked her. Thus, the whole chapters in Kingston and Carr’s books transmit the severity of the culture they were brought up in.

A woman’s life during twentieth century had its own challenges. A new era for daughters brought up in a strict culture who became women facing a different fate from their parents. Sharing their childhood memories help the readers understand what transition was undertaking and how it felt for those women to be a part of such societies. Both the chapters that were discussed have three similarities in terms of existence of rebellious characters, death of a female relative and strictness of their culture. These similarities states that despite the geographical distance, these two writers had a lot in common.