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American Born Chinese While you may try to abandon your roots, they will always be a part of you. Throughout the novel American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang the protagonist, Jin Wang struggles with whether he is Chinese or American because he cannot possibly be both, thus provoking a journey of knowledge, remembrance, and growth. However, no one can entirely change themselves to fit a situation without first leaving a piece of themselves behind. In the first part of American Born Chinese jin woo is just trying to make it through school the best he can, he manages to do this by keeping to himself and trying not to piss any of the other students off. To reassure others that they weren't related, jin woo and the other Asian student, Suzy “avoided each other as much as possible” p.31. and while this does help him personally Abandoning his Asianness to help them feel more American will not make him any less Chinese. In one-panel jin woo is eating dumplings for lunch and the other students are appalled …show more content…

Wei Chen begins to remind Jin Woo that being Asian isn't a bad thing and it should be embraced despite this jin woo is entranced by amelia, one of his classmates, in order to woo her he believes he needs to be the least Asian he can be. he gets his wish and becomes Danny, Danny's story is a little bit different, as he is white and definitely American jin woo can do whatever he wants except now he is weighed down by his cousin Chin-Kee. Chin-Kee is smarter, funnier, and more enthusiastic than Danny but is also extremely stereotypically Asian to remind him that he cannot be Danny and must return to being jin woo “en esta historia el Perro de Jose es- - Branco y muy glande” p.113. Further in his story, Danny is interested in another one of his classmates and gets into an argument about how he is not like chin kee obviously avoiding being like him in any way “I don't even know how Jre related!”

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