Personal Narrative: My Experience In American Born Chinese

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On my dad’s side of the family, my grandfather was the first person on his side of his family to come to the United States from Iran. He first came by himself 1962 to go to school. My grandma was the first one from her family to come to the United States from her side of the family 1963 to follow my grandfather since she was engaged with him. After my grandfather graduated they went back to Iran and then came back had my dad and stayed for three years. They then went back to Iran because they wanted my dad to be raised in Iran but came back in 1976, due to the revolution. My grandfather decided to leave everything that they had there because he felt like the safety of his family was not important. Since then, my grandfather has been the only …show more content…
Once Jin starts to get to know Wei-Chen, Jin started to help he learn what they do in America. I can relate to that scene because growing up, I learned some word in Farsi and I did not know how to say them in English. So when I started school, I was made fun of for not know certain things, but eventually I made friends with people who taught me how you would say those certain words in English. Another scene where I can relate to Wei-Chen Sun from American Born Chinese is when he was making fun of Jin for liking a girl, and he is excuse for doing that was that in Taiwan you do not like a girl until you are eighteen. Jin then told him that, no in the United States that guys can like girls at whatever age they want to. I can relate to that because growing up I always celebrated the New Year in March, not January like everyone else. I did not know that everyone in the United States celebrated the New Year in January till I started school where the other kids would talk about celebrating in January. To me when I first heard about it I was confused, which is probably how Wei-Chen felt when he learned that guys can like girls at whatever age they want

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