The nature of reality, the flux of time, and the power of language remain Kingston's themes in her second book. Memories and legends of China sustain many of the emigrants and refugees who leave their homeland believing the stories about the Gold Mountain. Others quickly grasp the new realities of America and discard many of the old ways and allegiances, like an uncle in The Woman Warrior who, when his family follows him to America, tells them to go away, that he is a different person and they "became people in a book [he] had read a long time ago."
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