Social Power Lens

I have really not had the opportunity to read graphic narratives or novels, comic books or anime. It was really interesting to read this week’s chosen book which was a graphic novel titles American Born Chinese. I was really excited to actually see the story of the Monkey King because growing up as a child that was one of the favorite T.V shows that I truly enjoyed from the start to the end of each episode. After reading this book, I have really given much appreciation to the authors of graphic novels or narratives. The story in the book American Born Chinese, is mainly about Jin but has other stories as well within the book. It initially starts with story of the Monkey King, and then it switches to Jin’s story in the second chapter. The story then switches to Danny’s story with a repetition of the same pattern.

American Born Chinese Monkey King Conflict Essay In the book American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang, the Monkey King experiences the conflict of man versus society. He wants to be recognized as a powerful deity. He is denied that status by other deities because he is a monkey.

Through the interaction between Wong Lai-Tsao and the Monkey King, Yang portrays the message that characters are trying to avoid being themselves. The novel focuses on character’s identities. The Monkey king deals with being stuck under a mountain for 500 years because he tried to be someone else. When the monkey king is stuck under the rocks, Wong Lai-Tsao visits the monkey king and states: “The form you have taken is not truly your own, return to your true form and you shall be freed” (Yang 145). Furthermore, Wong Lai-Tsao is alerting the Monkey king that he is not being his true form, which is what is causing him to suffer. Additionally the Monkey King’s response is extremely surprising. In panels five and 6, the Monkey king has an

Since he's not white he probably thought he would get the same bad reaction out of Amelia as well. Meanwhile Jin thinks that if he becomes something that he's not Amelia will like him. In panels 3,4,5, and 6 on Page 97 Jin decides that the only way he’ll be able to successfully get Amelia is if he changes his appearance to look more like the Greg. He changes, and sees if she will take him now(Yang 97). Yang is showing that Jin is willing to pretend to be something he's not and make himself look like one of the cooler boys that Amelia hangs with to try to get

The main themes in this novel are family and friendship. For Liang it is the monkey man, for Jung it is Frank Yuen, and for Sekky it is his grandmother. For Chinese-Canadians in the 1930s and 40s, family is more than blood ties, close

After the dinner, the Monkey King started to hate his monkey smell and locked himself in the inner to studied kung-fu. On page 60, the Monkey King changed his form from short to tall and he wore shoes. He looked like a human than before. Jin, after changing his hair, still wanted to change to someone else. On page 194, Jin suddenly changed. His hair became blonde and he got taller. And he called himself Danny. This reveals that they both tried to fit in their community by changing themselves. The Monkey King changed his form-shape, wore shoes and thought that he is not a monkey. Jin became Danny, a completely different person, and thought people would accept him. Yet they felt helpless because nothing changed. The Monkey King and Jin both tried to be accepted in their

No matter what a person does the piece is there but it depends if it is a big piece or a little one. Every lie feeds the piece and it can only get bigger but when you keep your morals in check like Huck Finn a person can become a better human being. King on the other hand represents everything that is wrong and crooked in man's spirit. He represents the lies, tricks, and schemes in every person hearts but no one is completely innocent or completely

In addition, a king was expected to be a role model to his people. He was a symbol of human perfection for his subjects to emulate like in our president today.

The story “Lady and the Tiger” has a king is semi barbaric, and only does what he wants to do. The king is not good at making decisions because he doesn't listen to others. “He was greatly given to self-communing, and when he and himself agreed upon anything, the thing was done”(Stockton 1). When he decides on something it is set in stone and no one can change it.

The civilization he meant to build has transmogrified to a forest thick with traps" (121). Not only has he lost his muscle, he's lost his peace of mind as well. The king has become trapped by everything he worked so hard to achieve. His bling, his solid rep, his fantastic crib, and even his methods of ruling become a target for younger, ambitious warlords. His beautiful wife, a peace offering from a young and resentful lesser king, might become a point of contention in the future.

Human Trafficking in the Three Social Lenses When one thinks of those two words, human trafficking, so many questions come to mind. What really is human trafficking? Is there more than one kind of it? How did it begin?

American Born Chinese was a book that I would have initially missed reading because it didn’t appeal to me then. However, it wasn’t until the three narratives intertwined at the end that I realized that this was a great read. Jin, Danny, and the Monkey King all have one thing in common; they try to become something they are not, and they lose their sense of identity until the realization of the truth that we cannot fight who we really are. Jin comes to America and desperately tries to fit in with his classmates and assimilate. The Monkey King tried to become something greater than himself, and become an equal with the other deities. Danny is what looks to be a normal high school student, but is plagued by his Chinese cousin’s visits

When he allows himself out of his chamber, he is shocked when he receives a notice saying he is being sentenced with death for ‘trespassing upon Heaven’. Although the Monkey King thought he was doing something successful in his training to become somebody he was not, in reality, he was just hurting himself even more. There is a reason why he is not granted immortality, and his kind is not meant to live the life he was striving for. He attempts to overcome it all and get himself to heaven, being stopped upon the entrance, “I created you I say that you are a monkey, therefore, you are a monkey”.

already achieve his goal to be a king, he begins to be greedier to not

Some theorists believe that ‘power is everywhere: not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere… power is not an institution, nor a structure, nor possession. It is the name we give to a complex strategic situation in a particular society. (Foucault, 1990: 93) This is because power is present in each individual and in every relationship. It is defined as the ability of a group to get another group to take some form of desired action, usually by consensual power and sometimes by force. (Holmes, Hughes &Julian, 2007) There have been a number of differing views on ‘power over’ the many years in which it has been studied. Theorist such as Anthony Gidden in his works on structuration theory attempts to integrate basic