Chinese by Gene Luen Yang and Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin both share in common the storyline where the main protagonist experiences and is plunged into a new environment, however in different ways, a graphic novel, and a novel. In Jin Wang’s case, he moved into a new town and school in which there were no longer Chinese-American kids for him to easily socialise with, and Jin needed to adapt to the American way of living to fit in. Or did he? While in Mao’s last Dancer, Li Cunxin, the author himself
Being Australian could have a variety of meanings, like living within the land borders, possessing official documents declaring you a citizen, or simply conforming to stereotypical ideas and following what is widely recognised as the Australian way of doing things. The novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock" addresses this issue in a number if ways. Joan Lindsay particularly explores the notion of freedom in her novel- the freedom of being Australian, the closeness of the natural world to civilisation, and