Identify the main formal features of the passage below from The Woman Warrior: its narration style, its structure, its verb tenses, its patterns such as repetitions, oppositions, and parallels, also any figurative language.
Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies? If I want to learn what clothes my aunt wore, whether flashy or ordinary, I would have to begin, ''Remember Father's drowned-in-the-well sister?'' I cannot ask that. My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by Necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the fields and eats food left for the gods
