Journey to the West

In the story “Buddha Boy” by Kathe Koja, Justin, a male teenager in Edward Rucher High School, was partnered with Buddha Boy for a group project. He appeared to be a freak at first glance, but after Justin went to Buddha Boy’s house and worked on the project, he realized that Buddha Boy wasn’t as weird as people thought he was, and that he was an exceptional artist. However, McManus, the lead bully in the school, targeted Jinsen with the help of Magnur, and everyone else in the school followed along with him. Eventually, Justin learns that Jinsen was once a bully, just like McManus, and that his confusing behavior was caused by this past experience. Near the end of the book, Jinsen showed the school his beautiful hand-drawn banner, and people started to treat him like a normal person. In addition, Justin also managed to tell the school principal about all the bad things McManus did. Throughout the course of the book, Justin starts caring less about the social order in the school and becomes kinder to other people. The theme of the story is that you shouldn’t judge someone by their actions. One trait that shows Justin’s character growth is that he becomes less worried about the social order. At the start of the book, Justin is worried that he will become an outcast if he tries to be friends with Jinsen. However, later on in the book, Justin tells Magnur, “He [Buddha Boy] is my friend. So what?“ (Koja, 89) This quote shows that Justin is no longer afraid of the social order of…

When a person can’t accept their vulnerability then they feel forced to cover up the things that make up their identity which cause them to not be the person they want to be because they think that people will just tear them apart. Everyone has some vulnerability in their life but it's how you handle the vulnerability that determines their true identity and whether they can live a more full life. When a person first is affected by their vulnerability it is hard for them to share it with other…

As people grow up in a world full of standards to live up to, they might begin to lose themselves throughout the journey. For example, an individual may adjust their identity to reach the ideal life that every person dreams to aspire. We are never happy with who we are and what we have, we always want more; however, people are dismissing the conception of acceptance. In the book, “American Born Chinese” written by Gene Luen Yang, the American religious experience is accepting yourself. Once a…

only glide, but scientist say over time evolutionary traits have been passed down to the birds that can fly. The Caihong Juji Had lived in northeastern china, 160 million years ago in the late Jurassic period. Which there were also many dinosaurs that lived in this period. The Caihong Juji had lived in the rainforest. It would glided across tree with it’s feathers and look for food. It was a carnivore (meat eater) that had hunted for small mammals, and reptiles. It would also show off it’s…

Over the course of the graphic novel, Jin’s personality changes immensely. In the beginning, Jin is very timid and does not stand up for himself. This is a result of him being a new student of a different race. Though, at the end of the story, he becomes confident in himself as a result of him experiencing life as a popular white boy and seeing why being himself is a good thing. The internal conflict Jin experiences are based on the conflicting identities he has. This is best seen when Jin…

complementary colours red and green boldly gives the poster a strong sense of contrast. The ruins in the bottom use red colour. ‘While red is the color most associated with love, it also the color most frequently associated with hatred, anger, aggression and war’ (Heller, 2000, p42). The method of combining red and black stands for death and the hell. However, the upper area using green and blue is a symbol of paradise. This exaggerative colour matching connotes that war can turn heaven into…

They moved west because their country land was becoming crowded and her parents didn’t like that. They heard that there was going to be opportunities to expand in the Indian territories, so that’s where they headed. They packed up everything they owned except furniture, because their father could make more once they got to their new home. They sold their cows, and said goodbye to family and set off in a house drawn wagon out to the west. The father directed the horse, the mother sat next to him…

The Journey to the West Me and 33 other men dared the challenge that is the unknown west. Our leaders Lewis and Clark were gave the mission to find the source of the Missouri River and find a East West river by the one and only Thomas Jefferson. It was the year 1804 and all I knew was it wasn't going to be easy. Their was so many new undiscovered plant and animals it was hard to believe. Some of the plants we discovered were so beautiful like the blue flax which was a beautiful blue.…

celebrities and leaders are able to follow the hero's Journey to get to the point that they are at today. Kanye West is one of those people who went through the trials to reach the success he is at today, but it sure wasn’t an easy journey. Kanye Omari West was born on June 8th, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. Kanye’s parents got divorced when he was three and he rarely saw his father. Kanye soon moved to China when he was ten, where his mother was visiting a professor. This can relate to the hero's…

“Carnivalization in The Journey to the West: Cultural Dialogism in Fictional Festivity”, is an essay written by college professor, Zuyan Zhou explaining how Monkey and the other characters and stories of The Journey to the West share many parallels with Western carnival in “season, duration, form and influence”(69). While analyzing the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Zhou comes to many conclusions regarding the idea that The Journey to the West, a well known Chinese novel, is a representation of…