Literary Analysis Paper Topics

1. Compare the talk stories of Maxine Hong Kingston’s work Woman Warrior to a more straightforward novel.

2. Compare the literary techniques Gene Yang uses in his graphic novel, which is more flexible because of its graphic nature, to another novel which must describe everything, such as The Oracles or Woman Warrior.

3. What is the author’s goal in using many different related stories in American Born Chinese as opposed to We Are All Suspects Now?

4. Compare the literary techniques Maxine Hong Kingston uses to describe her childhood versus those Pati Poblete uses.

5. Compare the symbols used in American Born Chinese to those used in Woman Warrior.