Moonshadow Analysis

Dragonwings by laurence yep is about a little boy named moonshadow who lives in san francisco they refer to him moonshadows father as windrider because he is known to make very good kites as a hobby.Moonshadow has never seen his father or spoke to him other than by cards. Moonshadow makes a life changing decision to go to america with his dad.Moonshadow was stunned when he got to san francisco california he imagined there to be a great big mountain, but sadly there wasn't.He noticed how there was no children and hardly ladies.Moonshadow sees windrider for the very first time and sees how windrider lives with “the company” which are all tang men. Windrider introduced left and blackdog to moonshadow.Moonshadow was always wondering how windrider got his name although windrider didn't know for sure he goes on to say …show more content…
Ms.whitelaw invited them with milk and cookies. They grew closer as they talked and visited each other.Moonshadow would visit ms.Whitelaw on his break from collecting bills.MOonshadow would lecture about dragons and how they could be good or evil. Moonshadow built up fear for american kids as they bullied him.He would make up a fake story to windrider so he wouldn't worry.Windrider told Ms.Whitelaw about Windrider dream so they could both help achieve his dream,they went on to write a card to the Wright Brothers.The wright brothers replied immediately and they gave him advice and instructions.moonshadow wanted to see and bring his beloved mother and grandmother back in china. Moonshadow wrote them a letter giving them a taste of how america was going to be .He soon got back to work Robin which was ms whitlaws niece told him how the bully hated getting punched in the face so Moonshadow stood up for himself and when the bully got near Moonshadow got him.Suddenly and earthquake struck in the early morning. It left tons of damage after it was over ms whitelaw and windrider were trying to help the survivors