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    American nationality is unlike the nationality of any other country because it encompasses such a diverse group. This is because American nationality is awarded to someone based on whether or not they possesses citizenship papers -- which anyone can apply for. Despite the diversity in this country, there is a clear white privileged majority who have never known the other side of the immigration story. For this reason, Gene Luen Yang strives to elicit a greater understanding of immigrant…

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    The desire to fit in and have friends can be found in everyone, even the characters from Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese. Yang takes the reader through three different stories that all aim to show the importance of being true to yourself. Two of the main characters, Monkey King and Jin, attempt to assimilate into the societies that they live in, which results in the characters losing who they truly are, until they are finally willing to embrace their true selves. While…

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    In Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, there are various stories and media that are alluded to throughout the novel. Young people learn to interpret their lives and their world from watching others, whether through the television or through stories that they are told. They constantly take in new information and different reactions to things just by copying what someone does on their favorite TV show or movie or what the moral of a story is. The very first story centers on the Monkey King,…

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    Chinese have been impertinently stereotyped for centuries. Although they are not being treated as wrongfully as they were during the 1900’s, Asian-Americans continue to be embarrassed by these damaging labels. Gene Luen Yang author of American Born Chinese, effectively demonstrates how powerful the burden of racial stereotypes are by the way he carries out the character, Chin-Kee. The graphic novel published in 2006 speaks of the endeavoring changes in identity both physical and cultural as well…

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    you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.” In the novel American Born Chinese, Jin Wang is a young Chinese-American boy who is taking on the arduous task of accepting his identity. He is unable to decide how he should present himself to others. The preservation of his culture and heritage is fresh in his mind but he would also like to become the perfect American boy. The author, Gene Luen Yang had a tough childhood in which he experienced similar struggles…

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    Understanding American Born Stereotypes American Born Chinese is very educational when it comes to Chinese stereotypes in every reader. Stereotypes affect the characters in American Born Chinese in a negative manner. According to Google stereotypes are a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Gene Luen Yang is the author of the book who is an asian-american who was inspired to make American Born Chinese from his own experiences of…

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    graphic novel “American Born Chinese.” The story follows three different characters and their journey to knowing who they are. Each journey is different, but each is linked by the central theme of self identity. These three characters all have to go on a Hero’s Journey. A concept that explains a single character's arc in the story. The Hero’s Journey starts with a call to action. The hero is presented with a task and opportunity to figure out exactly who they are. In American Born Chinese, we…

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    Sometimes I make the colours also with markers, but usually I move the drawing into a computer, and put the colors on the picture with some of the computer’s apps like picsart or pixlr express. Why did you make three different stories in American Born Chinese? This is a question that I get a lot. I wanted to make something different, but then that wasn’t enough, so I decided to put the stories together in the end and make them one story. Do many people get upset by the ending of…

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    Transformation in American Born Chinese In the American Born Chinese, Gene Yang presents the theme of transformation and identity through the two foils, Jin Wang and Wei Chen Sun’s, shared symbolic transformer toys. During the introduction to Jin’s story arc, Yang punctuates an old Chinese parable on adaptation with depictions of a young Jin fiddling with a red transformer, immediately establishing the transformer as a symbol of change. Following that instance, Yang illustrates the early…

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    Fit in Three characters try to fit in. American Born Chinese reveals the following central theme of being yourself. Three characters pass through despair in order to fit in, and in some way they lost their knowledge. They forgot where they come from and who they are. One of them feels better than others. The monkey king feels better than the others monkeys by Luen Yang writes, “All monkeys must wear shoes”(55). The monkey king tries to fit in by telling all the monkeys to wear shoes. The…

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