ABC

After reading the first part of American Born Chinese, I am left wondering how do all three of these stories relate and if they are one big story why did the author chose to tell them in three different ways. Overall though this book seems to be very good. It keeps my interest, and I don't get so bored. The majority of ABC seems to be the Chinese and their culture. My favorite part of the story so far was the part with Danny and Chin-Kee. They seemed really funny, and that part of the story seemed the easiest to relate to/ understand. Its also kind of sad that Danny is so embarrassed by his cousin. When Danny and a friend of his were studying, Danny was embarrassed that his cousin was talking to his girlfriend. For my interpretation I felt as if at one time or another Danny was not embarrassed by his cousin it was just fairly recently that he began to feel this way. But I do understand how Danny would like to keep his home life and family seperate from his social life and his friends at school.

Overall I think that American Born Chinese is going to be a really good book. I think that the stories are going to come together in a very interseting way. I hope that Danny will learn to appreicate his cousin for who he is and not judge him for what he looks like or how he acts. I also hope that the monkey learns to be proud of himself for what he is and that he learns that he does not need to be the greatest in the world, its oka to just be good enough! I also hope that the boy in the second story can learn to be content with being chinese and I hope that he makes some really god friends in teh future. Everyone no mater their origin deserves to have friends and to be treated fairly.