Not all people are comfortable with who they are at birth but when they grow up they learn to love themselves. In the graphic novel American Born Chinese, Jin comes of age by learning to accept himself for who he really is. First, Jin feels like he has to change himself to be happy, so he does many thing to change himself, but, finally Jin shows he has come of age by learning to be happy with who he is. By the end of the story Jin dose becomes comfortable with himself but does feel like he has to
For when Catherine dies, not even her “statue”-like lifeless body can comfort him, only walking out into the rain, now ironically associated with death (332). It is confounding that Catherine and her child survive a retreat in war, a harrowing journey across the lake in the dead of night with a rain and windstorm pounding down, and finally a
Graeson Fee AP Literature Foster Templates 7/27/15 Chapter #1 1. Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) 3. The minor idea of this chapter is that in literature a quest is structured with five main components. The five parts of a quest are (a) a quester; (b) a place to go; (c) a stated reason to go there (d) challenges and trails en route; and (e) a real reason to go there, which as Foster explains as the main idea of the chapter is almost always self-knowledge. This concept is an important