American Born Chinese

by Gene Luen Yang

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American Born Chinese Questions and Answers

What is the Monkey King's internal conflict?

What was Jin Wang's internal conflict?

What is the importance of accepting one's identity in the comic American Born Chinese, and how does it encourages Jin to tackle the isolation and alienation in his school?

How dose the Monkey King serve as an allegory for the evolution Jin in American Born Chinese? Examine the physical and the psychological connections and transformations.

What do shoes symbolize, or represent, to the Monkey King?

At the end of the comic American Born Chinese, Jin goes to a Chinese restaurant and wants to order, but he does not know how to read the menu. However, as he goes to that restaurant more often, he becomes more familiar with the menu and has no problem with ordering in that restaurant. What does this indicate about assimilation into an environment? Considering Jin also waits for Wei-Chen in a Chinese restaurant, what does this say about Jin's attitude toward his identity?

Why does Danny try to distance himself from Chin-Kee?

What adjective best describes Jin Wang in American Born Chinese?

How do the Transformers act as symbols in American Born Chinese?

Who are the heroes in American Born Chinese? And why?

What is Chin-Kee's true identity at the end?

Why does Greg not want Jin to go out with Amelia anymore in American Born Chinese?

Why does the author consider the theme of acceptance in identity an important message?

What are two themes in American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang?

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Who are the characters in American Born Chinese?

How is the language and stereotypes in this novel too much for a young adult to handle?

What is the author's underlying message to the modern reader in American Born Chinese?

How is Jin "othered" or made to feel different, foreign, or unwelcome in American Born Chinese? Trace Jin's encounters with racial melancholia and his responses to racial melancholia. How does racial melancholia feature and persist in the graphic novel?

How is Jin "othered" or made to feel different, foreign, unwelcome, and so on in American Born Chinese? Trace Jin's encounters with racial melancholia and his responses to racial melancholia. How does racial melancholia feature and persist in the graphic novel?