American Born Chinese Identity

Trying To Fit... These days we rarely see a group of people from different races hanging out together. It’s always a race that determines who are our friends and the first ones we reach out to. This problem is created either by nature or by the wrong household understanding. However, it still exists in our community and we see it everywhere. American Born Chinese by Luen Yang is a graphic novel that has a large idea behind the book which Transformation and understanding identity. American Born Chinese consists of three different storylines and each storyline has a different character that tries to fit into society and also be able to transfer back to his culture. The three main characters are ashamed of who they are. According

The Third storyline is about an American teenager who is attending High School and is an average student at school. He tends to be fairly popular and considers himself to be a normal kid; however, once a year his cousin Chin Kee comes to visit him and always makes him extremely unpopular with the other students or makes him appear as a weirdo to his classmates. Because of this, Danny feels he has to get rid of what his cousin does in front of his peers, so in order to start over at a new school he has to move. Yet this year he decides to stand up and confront his cousin while further trying to reconcile his identity among his peers. Danny enters the school library, where Chin Kee is making an embarrassing scene, singing Danny tells Chin Kee to go away but chin Kee won 't go.Vizzini reviewed American born Chinese and he also agrees that Identity is the heart of the book. He starts by talking about how Yang used Chin Kee to express his deepest fears of how others perceive Asian Americans. In the book 's more realistic sections, Wang 's friend Wei Chen is embarrassingly fresh off the boat ; Chin Kee is less embarrassing than monstrous. He comes to the United States for a visit with Danny, his blond, blue eyed cousin, and enters with a shout of "Harro Amellica!" Which gives a bad impression of how Asians act when they come to a new country. Chin Kee himself is the reaction of his American peers. They accept him with blank, idealized political correctness.

In “ Understanding Comics” Mccloud talked about his journey with comics through his childhood and how he got into comics. Mccloud defines comics from the beginning with details as if you don 't know anything about comics he also mentioned that comics have hidden power which is colors associated with emotions. We could see the hidden power that Mccloud mentioned in his book in American Born Chinese (in figure 1) we could see the worst image of a chinese immigrant. Just by looking at the picture you could tell the power or the idea the author means behind the image. Scott McCloud also faced a stereotypical judgment on comics when he was young. People used to see comics as the funny “cheap” stories that doesn’t really has an idea worth reading. However, that is a stereotype. The world of comics is very wide and could be as interesting as any other valuable style of writing. However, People visualize