The Woman Warrior Lesson Plan

What are some examples of how Brave Orchid’s children’s American ways bother their mother and aunt? What is the significance of this aspect of the chapter?

At the airport, Brave Orchid’s children buy airport food instead of eating the food she brought, and they refuse to call out to their arriving aunt for fear of embarrassment. At home, they lack gratitude for Moon Orchid’s gifts of shoes and candy. Moon Orchid finds the way the children look at her directly in the eyes off-putting and rude. This assessment of Brave Orchid’s children is significant when we remember that Brave Orchid is the narrator’s mother. Thus, the narrator is exercising extreme empathy for her mother by...