American Born Chinese
American Born Chinese is a novel written by Gene Luen Yang and told in three different storylines which resolve as one in the end. The three main characters are the Monkey King, a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers a legendary monkey and leads over the Flower Fruit Mountain, Jin Wang, a second-generation Chinese American who is trying to fit in with his new culture, and Danny, an American boy that has an weird Chinese cousin Chin-Kee who visits every year. These stories do not seem related at first but slowly become one story with one theme in the end.
The Monkey King's Story
The first story starts with the Monkey King. When we first meet him, he has already been the king of his kingdom for a long …show more content…
Jin starts out his story by telling how he got to the town he lives in. His parents are both immigrants who moved to the United State for a better life and, once they had Jin, they decided to move to a place with a good school system. When they lived in Chinatown in San Francisco at first, Jin's life was pretty fun, and many Chinese American kids just like him, but since he moved to his new town he cannot find anyone like him. Kids are mean to him, bully him and call him names. However, things get a little better after a new Taiwan kid arrives in his town. His name's Wei-Chen. Jin did not want to be friends with Wei-Chen at first, but they become friends anyway because Wei-Chen is a really nice guy with cool toys, like a robot. In middle school, Jin fall in love with a White classmate, Amelia, and, with Wei-Chen’s help, he goes on a date with her. The date goes well until a popular white boy tells Jin to leave Amelia alone. This is very shameful to Jin. So Jin kissed Suzy Nakamura, Wei-Chen's girlfriend. As expected, Wei-Chen fights with Jin and stops being friends with him. In that night, Jin dreamt of an old lady herbalist from his Chinatown days. She asks him who he would like to become and when Jin wakes up in the next morning, he sees that he is now blonde and white. He gives himself a new name:
American Born Chinese is a novel written by Gene Luen Yang and told in three different storylines which resolve as one in the end. The three main characters are the Monkey King, a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers a legendary monkey and leads over the Flower Fruit Mountain, Jin Wang, a second-generation Chinese American who is trying to fit in with his new culture, and Danny, an American boy that has an weird Chinese cousin Chin-Kee who visits every year. These stories do not seem related at first but slowly become one story with one theme in the end.
The Monkey King's Story
The first story starts with the Monkey King. When we first meet him, he has already been the king of his kingdom for a long …show more content…
Jin starts out his story by telling how he got to the town he lives in. His parents are both immigrants who moved to the United State for a better life and, once they had Jin, they decided to move to a place with a good school system. When they lived in Chinatown in San Francisco at first, Jin's life was pretty fun, and many Chinese American kids just like him, but since he moved to his new town he cannot find anyone like him. Kids are mean to him, bully him and call him names. However, things get a little better after a new Taiwan kid arrives in his town. His name's Wei-Chen. Jin did not want to be friends with Wei-Chen at first, but they become friends anyway because Wei-Chen is a really nice guy with cool toys, like a robot. In middle school, Jin fall in love with a White classmate, Amelia, and, with Wei-Chen’s help, he goes on a date with her. The date goes well until a popular white boy tells Jin to leave Amelia alone. This is very shameful to Jin. So Jin kissed Suzy Nakamura, Wei-Chen's girlfriend. As expected, Wei-Chen fights with Jin and stops being friends with him. In that night, Jin dreamt of an old lady herbalist from his Chinatown days. She asks him who he would like to become and when Jin wakes up in the next morning, he sees that he is now blonde and white. He gives himself a new name: