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Monkey King Allegory

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Introduction: This essay talks about a story in comparison about a chinese boy named Jin and a god named Monkey King both dealing with same struggle to fit in with their crowd. The boy Jin was born in China and spoke Mandarin at the time until he moved to San Francisco and had to deal with the problem of being a different nationality in a school full of white kids. Monkey King was a god born from a rock that had a problem at a party of gods where he couldn’t attend due to fact that he was a monkey and didn’t wear shoes. My next few paragraphs I will be talking about the social exclusion, negative reactions, and lastly the evolution of Monkey King serving as an allegory for Jin. First body paragraph The social exclusion between Jin & Monkey King are very relatable. In this case, they both want to fit in with society. On page 14 when Monkey King was trying to go to a party, the guards wouldn't let him in just because he wasn’t wearing shoes and since he was just a monkey. On page 33 when Jin just came into a new school all the kids made fun of him just because how he looks. Both of these characters were being excluded from their own society. But both of them tried to fit in with the crowd by being who they were not. This led them to to having negative reactions. Second body paragraph When they were …show more content…

On page 206-214, when Chin Kee and Danny were fighting they revealed at the end of the fight was Monkey King and Jin. This made the reader question through the whole book who is who? When Jin turned into Danny this made me wonder if Chin Kee was his actual cousin. But them When the reader saw when Chin Kee head came off his head and it was actually the Monkey King. The Monkey king said to Jin that he was watching over him as his conscience and to see his son Wei Chin. Jin and Monkey King are different people but have the same soul. They are connected in a way that only they

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