Chin-Kee Grabs Peoples' Attention!
American Born Chinese
In this book, the most obvious theme is stereotypes.
American Born Chinese is a great book that talks about a Chinese boy growing up to realize his true identity.
Jin is a Chinese boy who moves to another school. Everyone calls him names and he has no friends until another Asian boy moves into the school. His life starts to go well and he stars liking a girl, but she is American. Jin thinks that he has to become American for her to like her back so he becomes this guy name Danny. Everything seems to be going well until Danny's cousin Chin-Kee comes and ruins everything. Danny finds himself his true identity when he has a battle with his cousin Chin-Kee. He turns out to be the monkey king trying to find Jin's true identity.
"I am Jin, not Danny"(204)
This shows Danny turning back to Jin, his true self.
"You want to eat some crispy flied cat gizzards wiff noodle?"(144)
This shows a very stereotypical food for the Chinese. Stereotype is a theme in the book.
"You are Jin Wang!"
Monkey King explains to Danny that his true self is Jin not Danny.
American Born Chines is a great book for young adults!
Gene Luen Yang
This book has won the Michael L. Printz award.
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