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Almost American Girl, By Robin Han, And Gene Luen-Yang

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If you are interested in comics, then you will enjoy reading these graphic novels. The books Almost American Girl by Rob by Robin Ha and American Born Chinese and Gene Luen Yang are both about how they get bullied because they aren’t American. The main character in Almost American Girl is Robin. She is Chinese, she knows how to draw, and likes comics.The main character of American Born Chinese is Danny. He is Chinese, and didn’t have a lot of friends. and quiet.In the novels Almost American Girl and American Born Chinese, by Robin Ha, and Gene Luen-Yang, the authors use loss-up and visualization to develop a theme of self acceptance. You have to learn to not listen to the bad comments that they make of you because it doesn't help listening to the bad comments.For example,in page 33 it shows that three boys were making fun of Jin because they think that because Jin is Chinese he ate dogs. The panel shows how Jin was being treated by the boys “What the hell is that?.Dumplings.HMPH Stay away from my dog.HA! “(Yang 32).When Yang uses facial expression to show how Jin feels,readers can infer that Jin didn’t like the way he was being treated.Overall, this part of the story develops that Jin wasn’t being treated fairly by his classmates because they thought Jin was from
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