Vibiana's Belonging And Power In Saints By Gene Luen Yang

In the book Saints by Gene Luen Yang, the character, Vibiana (also known as four girl) struggles to find her belonging and power but succeeds through her faith. Vibiana felt insignificant because her family mistreated her. Since she was born, they believed that Vibiana was a devil, because she was born on May 4, was the 4th child and every year her family experienced some sort of death. From the constant reoccurrence of 4 in her life, they believed she was bad luck as 4 means dead in the Chinese language. From experience, her grandfather ignored her and she was never given an official name instead everyone just called her four girl. Through this reputation she gained, her grandfather refuses to acknowledge her existence, so she tries to prove …show more content…
Thus after listening about the Christian being devils in her community, she was interested in being part of the devils as being a Christian would also erase her former sins. Through faith, she was able to discover Christianity and later converted herself. After converting herself into a Christian, her family critiques her interests in Christianity and tries to pull her away from it. By this action, she decides to leave her family and move to a village fill of Christian believers. While being in the Christian village, the idea of given a name like Vibiana instead of being called four girl allows her to feel that she is important. When she moved into the Christian village, her goal and belief was unclear. She wasn’t necessarily committed to the religion. Thus, this didn’t define her identity. However, soon it hit her that it was her job to protect the Christians. Therefore, she strives to be a woman warrior like Joan. Through Vibiana’s faith she realizes her true belonging is in the Christian society. On the path to reaching this conclusion, there was a question on whether she feels a sense of belonging since she wasn’t fully committed to