The document discusses two instances of infanticide in the novel The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. The first instance is in the chapter "No Name Woman" where an aunt drowns her baby girl to hide the shame of having a child out of wedlock. The second instance is when Brave Orchid recalls a baby born without an anus being left outside to die as there was no hope of it surviving. Both instances are used to provoke thought about what is considered right or wrong culturally and to demonstrate the will to survive even in doomed circumstances.