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Analysis Of A Bully Is Always A Coward By Gene Luen Yang

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A Bully is Always a Coward: How Yang Portrays Jin’s Struggle with Bullying One of every five students experience bullying in school because of their race, appearance, or culture (NCES 2019). Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese explores how bullying impacts the identity and self-esteem of Jin Wang, a Chinese American teenager who struggles to fit in at his predominantly white school. In pages 32-33, Yang employs image scale and point of view as visual techniques to highlight this key challenge in Jin’s story. Through the use of these techniques, Yang establishes power dynamics between the characters, highlighting Jin’s sense of isolation and vulnerability due to his identity. For instance, Jin is depicted as significantly smaller
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