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In Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel “American Born Chinese”, the Monkey King parallels Jin life by many common interests they share like conforming to society to gain the admiration of others. They both struggle throughout the novel with many conflicts such as fitting in, insecurities, and being withdrawn from others. For the Monkey King and Jin it is critical for them to fit into society in order to gain approval from other who are important to them. They both very much so struggle with this throughout the novel. For the Monkey King there were many occasions of this happening, an example of this would be when he goes to a dinner party and is rejected due to who he was, a monkey. What happened was that he showed up at the party and the security …show more content…

The Monkey King felt that he wasn't being respected due to his title. He was so shaken up from the dinner party incident that he completely gave himself a new look, a new name, a new title, practically a new identity. The quote “This “Monkey King” it speaks of no longer exists, for I have mastered twelve major disciples of Kung-Fu and transcended my former title! I shall now be called… The Great Sage King.”(60) The Monkey King felt that he was not respected so he then changed who he was so that he was respected. In the quote he says the he changed his title and he also changed his name to The Great Sage King, probably in hopes of earning respect that he desired very much. The Monkey King also changed his whole look to a more human-like appearance. He started wearing a full outfit of clothing, including a white pair of shoes. This is that Monkey King’s way of forming to society so that people will treat him with more …show more content…

One day after school Jin was walking home thinking about Amelia, like he usually does. As he's walking home an idea pops into Jin's head, he starts thinking about Greg and Amelia’s relationship that they have. He soon thinks that Amelia might very possibly like Greg, not as a friend, but in a way that makes him more special than a friend. That encourages Jin into making himself look like Greg so that Amelia might like him like they way that she like Greg. This is when Jin decides he will do his hair just like Greg so there would be no difference between them. First of all Jin only had an interest in Amelia until his best friend got a girlfriend, that is what triggered him to have an interest in girls. That shows one way of him trying to be like other people to be “cool”, the other way is that he assumes that if he looks like Greg, Amelia will automatically like him for his looks. Doing this Jin then goes on a date with Amelia making him think that you do need to change how you look for them to like you, which is not the

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A stereotype is used to categorize a group of people. Stereotypes are similar to racism, because stereotyping is a type of racism. Assuming everyone of a certain race acts the same is extremely racist. For example For example assuming an Asian person is very smart is a stereotype and is racist. Stereotyping can also be sexist.

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But Greg is very close to Amelia, almost a brother sister relationship, and he wants nothing to do with jin wang, he doesn't think he is right for her. So Jin builds a conflict and instead of

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This was a human being, dying. This was the only time there was going to be someone with those eyes and those ears and that way of breathing through her mouth and that way of building up right before a monster laugh with her eyebrows all raised and her nostrils flaring a little bit. This was the only time there was ever going to be that person, living in the world, and now that was almost over, and I couldn't deal with it” (Andrews Loc. 276). This excerpt shows the characterization of Greg. Also, it shows how his philosophies change over the course of the story as a dynamic character.

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In the novel “American Born Chinese” by Gene Luen Yang (2006), it talks about three different people’s stories. The author starts off with telling a story about a monkey called the Monkey King, who lives in the jungle, seeking for higher power to become considered a god in the book. The author also tells a story about an American born Chinese boy named Jin Wang, who moves from San Francisco and struggles with fitting in at a new school. The last story the author tells is about a boy named Danny who has his cousin Chin-Kee from China visit every year. Danny ends up struggling to keep his reputation in adequate shape at school after his cousin visits causing him to switch schools often.

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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.

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