Bone | Themes and Characters
Reading Bone is almost like gaining a new family. It is essential to the novel's themes that the family of Leon and Mah be well rounded and vivid, not symbolic stick figures, because the essence of Bone is how the Chinese-American experience was created, shared, and valued by individual people. This is an American outlook, a perception of the experiences of individual people as more important than mass cultural movements in which individuality may be lost.
The narrator is Leila, nicknamed "Lei." The eldest of the three daughters of Mah, Lei has been in a position to...
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