Both dimension and abstraction are common features that characters portray in their world of interaction. Characters are forced to assimilate new ways of life in order to match with their immediate surroundings while others are resistant to such changes. In East goes West, several attempts are being made to form relationships. Evidently, some of the relationships work successfully while others are not. This nature of things brings about ambivalence in the lives of characters, which leads to Chungpa Han’s most popular quote: “Love sincerely…paper sincerely…which shall life take? Both in one man are very hard to find.” (361). This essay presents an analysis of how characters, in relation to the novel’s hero, Chungpa Han, the main protagonist depicts the difficulty of presenting a legible experience while also maintaining the dimension of that experience.
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The protagonist, Chungpa Han is a model minority whose role resembles that of an avatar. He seems to be well-equipped with both cultural and educational capital as a middle-class foreign student. His legible experiences and the dimension in which he maintains them can be transferred to the United States from Korea where he is a foreign student.
Kang (1997) explains the earlier student experience in terms of what they were able to practice, what they faced, and the changes that followed their new status and position. The United States is known for its hierarchical nature as pertains to Asians vis-à-vis blacks and immigrants. In order to neutralize his racial otherness, the narrator seeks to call on his class privilege. This is eventually successful when at the long run, he is in terms with the white
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The protagonist, Chungpa Han is a model minority whose role resembles that of an avatar. He seems to be well-equipped with both cultural and educational capital as a middle-class foreign student. His legible experiences and the dimension in which he maintains them can be transferred to the United States from Korea where he is a foreign student.
Kang (1997) explains the earlier student experience in terms of what they were able to practice, what they faced, and the changes that followed their new status and position. The United States is known for its hierarchical nature as pertains to Asians vis-à-vis blacks and immigrants. In order to neutralize his racial otherness, the narrator seeks to call on his class privilege. This is eventually successful when at the long run, he is in terms with the white