This title is important and significant to the story because it just shows how other countries use such actions to bring shame upon woman. The narrators Aunt was a Chinese woman born an raised in China but her becoming pregnant while her husband was away made her family angry. Her aunt protected the man till the very end without revealing his name and went into silent labor. As a woman one can imagine just how difficult and painful that might have been. She had no support from her family and friends. Because of her shameful actions her family didn’t want her, and vowed to forget about her. The narrator can’t ever say or mentioned that she had an aunt in front of her father because that very subject is extremely sensitive due to their harsh background.

It seems that women in China are held at very high expectations, even back then when immigration to America was getting really popular. Woman were expected to follow traditions, and when they don’t they are frowned upon, like what happened with the narrators aunt. The fact that her family neglected her shows how strongly they take culture and customs into consideration. “Women must always stay home.” “Women need to take care of the family.” these are notions created worldwide about women. Anything we do that doesn’t fall into others expectations seems wrong. That’s why here in the U.S, China, Mexico, and every other country around the world you’ll always see a woman being shunned upon for not being what others would call “womanly.”

Woman shouldn’t be frowned upon through their actions. The Aunt of the the narrator in “No Name Woman” was looked on badly and was neglected by her family because of her “shameless” actions. However that Aunt never backed down, and even though people were insistent on forgetting her and look down on her, she never stopped fighting until she finally reached her limit. That’s how it always should be. Woman need to fight until the very end when they can finally be viewed in equal terms and not by those stereotypical views brought by our ancestors. Woman need to be strong willed just like the narrators aunt, in China, and everywhere else. It doesn’t matter if its tradition, if a woman is regarded as something less than man, then fight and stand next with what’s right.

In this book we can see how the Main character, Adelina Amouteru, has to overcome her fathers bad treatment. Her sister, Violetta, is who restrains her unknowingly from unleashing her powers, that feed on her hate and darkness, on to her father. Violetta in this scenario, and throughout the book, act as Adelina’s ego. Adelina has so much darkness and hatred for the world that at most every actions she stops herself from doing involves her sister Violetta in some way. However when Adelina isn’t stopping herself, she usually goes by gut feeling, she acts unconsciously. So basically her id takes over and doesn’t let her process proper reasoning; she loses control and ends up regretting her actions later because there was no one there capable of holding her back.

Adelina is a character who has experienced a traumatic past and those memories is what fuels her hatred. That hatred is so powerful that it covers up all her happier memories to the point that its extremely difficult to remember them. Her unconscious mind tells her what to feel, what to do, and what to remember, and based on those thoughts she acts. Her actions are reckless and can cause fear and suspicion among those she calls her comrades. These confusions also causes Adelina to feel insecure about herself, stirring up her mind into thinking negative thoughts. Adelina’s ego is her sister, if it wasn’t because she wants to protect her, Adelina would have been in a much worse situation.

When it comes to emotions almost every character show signs of repression. Adelina and her sister Violetta most of all. They both share a dark past that they prefer not remember so they shroud themselves in darkness in order to forget. Same thing with the other characters; because of their dark past, they begin having a dark attitude that doesn’t resemble what they were in the past. They try to hide their pasts emotions by completely changing their personalty. However, in the end you can always see their their past bight back at them. Adelina and her sister, though, are seen trying to face and fight their past which is good because they can take a weight off of their shoulders and stop repressing all those emotions within themselves.

The structure in this book focuses on the different points of view of the main characters. Each chapter consists of a complete different story from the previous chapter. As the story progresses, each chapter gets more and more similar to each other to the point where the different characters from each story interact. All the different points of view tell different stories, but all of them would eventually relate to each other tell and experience the same problems. It can be confusing at times but if you continue reading it’ll be easier to catch up and notice which character is telling their story and clearly be able to understand the transitions.