Week 08: Stereotype and the ethics of representation

This week I read "American Born Chinese" written by Gene Luen Yang. When I saw these stories at first, I thought that each of them had different contents because three stories were divided.
The first story is related to the legend that The Monkey King is the main character. The second is a story about a first-generation immigrant boy named Jin Wang, who is related to school life, and the third is about a Chinese cousin, Chin-Kee, who visited a white boy's school called Danny, the main character. But if you read these stories to the end, you can see that these characters are all the same person. Their journey shows that it is the main content to find their identity.

 In the middle of the content, the main characters were able to indirectly see the stereotypes about Asians in the United States, but I thought that it was more empathic because I had experienced it in reality. I think that the story is a work that reflects reality because it contains all the ideas of the good side and the bad side. It was a work that meant to establish identity without losing oneself in a world full of stereotypes in the world.

 This book describes characters as stereotypes and animals, as people with stereotypes as they are; it seems to have been indirectly expressed, but the direct way of expression was very interesting.

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