<P> "At the Western Palace" opens with Brave Orchid, her two children, and her niece at San Francisco International Airport . Brave Orchid is waiting for her sister Moon Orchid to arrive from Hong Kong . Moon Orchid is emigrating to the United States after being separated from her sister for 30 years . The sisters arrive back at Brave Orchid's house in the Valley . They are greeted by Brave Orchid's husband, who has aged significantly in Moon Orchid's eyes . Moon Orchid spends the summer in Brave Orchid's house . Brave Orchid, her oldest son, Moon Orchid, and Moon Orchid's daughter drive South to Los Angeles . They are on a mission to find Moon Orchid's husband . At the end of the chapter, Moon Orchid declines in mental health and is forced to return to live with Brave Orchid . </P> <P> In this story, Kingston reveals that her mother cut the membrane under her tongue . Kingston despises a Chinese girl who is a year older than she is because she refuses to talk . One day, she finds herself alone with the girl in the lavatory . Kingston writes about other eccentric stories . After Kingston screams to her mother and father that she does not want to be set up with the developmentally disabled boy, she launches into a laundry list of things she is and is not going to do, regardless of her mother's opinion . In the final part, Kingston tells the story of Ts'ai Yen, a poet born in A.D. 175 . </P> <P> In an essay about The Woman Warrior, Sau - Ling Cynthia Wong writes about "the protagonist's struggle toward a balance between self - actualization and social responsibility...identified as' Necessity' and' Extravagance ."' </P> <P> The language of The Woman Warrior invokes a complex juxtaposition of cultural and linguistic voices . Kingston tries to capture and emulate the nuances of Chinese speech through her prose . Trying to transmit a Sinitic language by means of an Indo - European language was no easy task, and one that Kingston had to pursue actively . Nevertheless, The Woman Warrior is not pure talk - story . There is in fact a blending of first, second, and third person narration . The first - person narration of Kingston is her own American voice, the second - person is that of the Chinese talk - story, and the third - person (which only appears in "At the Western Palace") is a mixture; a talk - story transposed from Kingston's Chinese parents to her American siblings, and finally back to Kingston herself . What results from this combination of voices can only be described as a "fusion language" unique to Kingston, almost like her own type of Creole language . </P>

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