American Born Chinese starts out very strangely, with a tale of a Monkey King being kicked out of banquet hosted in heaven. However, the book quickly evolves into a heartwarming tale of three unrelated characters’ quest to change their outsider status. The book was written by Gene Luen Yang, and published by Square Fish Publishing. […]
In American literature today, many authors from various cultures are rising above the rest to be recognized. One culture in particular is the Asian culture; whose literature up until the 1970’s was virtually unpublished (Nash 557). Asian people had to overcome many obstacles in order to be accepted as capable of having the skills to […]
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Get startedOkonkwo was a fierce warrior with a short temper. He had 3 wives and 7 children, and seemed to never fully appreciate any of them. This character in the book “Things Fall Apart”, written by Chinua Achebe, lived in the small African village of Umuofia, one of the nine making up their tribe. Judging Okonkwo’s […]
