Analysis Of Maxine Hong Kingston's Essay 'No Name Woman'

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Learning from your own mistakes is not wisdom, but merely intelligence, a subset of wisdom. Unlike intelligence, which is limited to one’s understanding, wisdom encompasses intelligence and adds the concept of learning from others and their experiences. People learn from not only past events, people or stories, but also through fears – or what might cause us disorder and harm – in order to avoid it in the future. If so, then what is the importance to learn from fear or from what goes against the status quo?
Maxine Hong Kingston’s essay “No Name Woman” represents how wisdom pertains to not only knowledge of the conceptual world, but also knowledge of what defies natural order and conformity. In “No Name Woman,” Kingston reminisces the story

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