Summary Of American Born Chinese By Gene Luen Yang

The graphic novel from American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang is set inside a Chinese Herbalist shop. The story begins with two characters one young boy and the other an old woman. Yang is an Asian American man, so this story was heavily influenced by his experiences. In this essay I analyze this graphic story by analyzing the characters the plot and the cultural context to get a better understanding of this story.
As the story begins I realized that the Boy character is very innocent. I get this from the way the first drawling is. Gene Yang does not give the Boy any eye brows or eye lashes which are what tells me the emotion of someone else. In the first picture the older woman also known as the Herbalist’s wife seems calm and tired as she