American Born Chinse

I am currently reading American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. This is a beautifully done comic book, the author also illustrated the pictures. In each page, you can see how much time and dedication was put into the illustrations. My first impressions of this book are I love the drawing and I like how there are hardly any cuss words. I can picture reading this book to my future classroom, and use this book to teach my students about how to read comic books. I think this book can be used for many different lesson plans. American Born Chinese is a book with three mini stories the main focus of the three mini stories is a Chinses American boy named Jin. Although the story starts off with the Money King's then Jin's and finally Danny and Chin-Kee's story. The author of this book ties theses three stories together. In each mini story, the characters deal with the issue of bullying. I did not like the fact Jin tried to be mean to Wei-Chen-Sun at first, I looked at the situation like Jin was trying to repeat the cycle of how others treated him when he first arrived at the school. If anything I thought Jin should have treated Wei-Chen differently because he knows what it's like to be the new kid and a minority. In the Monkey King's story is thought it was sad the Monkey King no longer wanted to be a monkey and order everyone in his village to wear shoes because of the way he was treated. I didn't think the Monkey King needed to take things to the extreme and kill everyone. Overall I thought this was a pretty good comic book and can we why many kids would be interested
in reading this book.