Essay title : Dependency: women's weakness; Book title: The Woman Warrior; Book author: Maxine Hong Kingston

Dependency In Kingston's novel, The Woman Warrior, Kingston presents mothers, aunts, daughters, and woman warriors with different characteristics and styles of life, even the bravest women in her novel, Brave Orchid and Fa Mu Lan are held accountable of weaknesses. Kingston takes the reader deep into each individual's personal story and experiences to prove that all women are feeble. By showing the bravest women to have weaknesses, Kingston reveals that women hold a dependency towards …

…a sentimental meditation place where she loses track of time and of place. All women have weaknesses. Kingston illustrates that weakness exists in every woman through such admirable and courageous characters as Brave Orchid and Fa Mu Lan. Sometimes, weaknesses in women are invisible or unnoticeable to the eye, but no matter how strong or brave a woman seems, there will always be a limitation to her heroism, a weakness that she can not overcome.