American Born Chinese Character Analysis

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Imagine feeling and looking different from all those around you. Imagine if you weren’t understood the same way as the majority. In the book “American Born Chinese”, two characters, Jin and Monkey King who went through the same situations, but in different societies. The Monkey King insight into the impact of society on Jin as they both face social exclusion through experiencing internalized racism. Further as Monkey King transforms into another character, Chin-Kee, which Jin sees as an embarrassing Chinese culture. From beginning to end both Jin and the Monkey King come against social exclusion. Forasmuch as in the book “ABC”, on page 13-16. The Monkey faces exclusion just after hearing a party for the Gods. After all Monkey King went to the party, he was told that he couldn't join the party because he wasn't …show more content…

To that end, in the book “ABC”, pages 55-58 the Monkey King rejects his identity as much as possible by studying kung-fu and trying to get away of the fact that he is a monkey. Also the Monkey King dismisses his identity by wearing shoes and proclaims that the other fellow monkey’s should do the same after being denied from the deity party. Similarly Jin turns down his identity by changing his hair just to be with a girl he really admired. Jin wanted to be more seen as the most surpassing group of people. With a twisting end to the book we see character symbolism. Subsequently there is a big entanglement of characters that represent one another. On pages 204-214 we see that Chin-kee, a cousin of another character, symbolizes the Monkey King. On all accounts in the book Chin-Kee shows all asian stereotypes that we see continuously to this day. Jin is the cousin of Chin-kee, they both go to school with each other, and Jin is ashamed of

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