The Woman Warrior (excerpt)

      In this excerpt I feel like the author  Maxine Hong Kingston is basically thinking out loud. I like how I basically am in her thoughts as she illustrates them. She is telling the story of her aunt who has humiliated her family and is looked upon as an outcast. Her aunt committed adultery and because of her wrongful doing she committed suicide by drowning herself and her new born baby in a well. The villagers were outraged on her adulteration acts that before she committed suicide they attacked her homestead. Destroyed her crops, killed the livestock, spread the blood all over her family's house, and destroyed her personal property. 
     Kingston in this excerpt is the niece of this women, she never met her aunt. Kingston mother uses her aunt as an example/lesson to make sure she never does anything wrong to humiliate her family like her aunt did. Kingston in her thoughts comes up with two reason why her aunt did what she is. She tries to pain a picture of who her aunt was. One picture was that her aunt ran into an evil man. The village in which they lived is one where every one knew everybody and there wasn't any strangers. Kingston thought that this man targeted her aunt and forced her to sleep with him. He consistently raped her and she then conceived his child. The second illustration of one to bluntly say that her aunt was a whore. She wanted the attention while her husband was away. She got so into detail with this illustration that Kingston descriptively gives examples how her aunt cared about her looks to the point of where she would see a freckle and dig it out with a hot needle. To me that just sounds painful.
     Even through all the bad Kingston's aunt has done. I feel like Kingston has slight admiration towards her aunt. Never once did her aunt say who the babies father was. Was she too scared on what he might do, or was he protecting his other lover like she did her child. Kingston also admires her aunt, I feel, because she protected her child. She didn't just leave her child to be tormented by the villagers, or looked down upon as a disgrace, but she took her child with her. She died with her child.