American Born Chinese

In the beginning of this book, I was disappointed to see it was a comic book. I've never read a comic book before so I assumed I wouldn't like it. But as I read further I found it interesting and easy to follow for the most part. The book follows a few different characters. This includes a Monkey King, a teenage boy names Jin Wang, and the third is another teenage boy named Danny. I find the Monkey King to be the most interesting character. He's a monkey that masters kung-fu and other things in many forms. He seemed like an everyday, nice monkey until one night he goes out and everything changes. He loves to go to dinner parties until one day he is not allowed inside because he doesn't have shoes. He gets extremely angry and freaks out. When he gets home to his mountain, he then goes into isolation to master other arts. This includes: invulnerably to fire, invulnerably to drowning, invulnerably to cold, and invulnerably to wounds. He wants everyone to view him as a god. He goes off to show off his powers to everyone. The story also follows a young male named Danny. His life is going fine until his cousin comes into town. Danny has changed schools every year since 8th grade. This is because his cousin visits once a year and ruins everything when he does. Jin Wang meets a new kid, Wei-Chen Sun who tries to become friends with Jin. Jin is reluctant but eventually they become best friends. Wei-Chen is thankful for Jin because he showed him the American ways and taught him a lot. He said without him, he doesn't know what things would have been like. So far I've enjoyed this comic book and I'm excited to finish it up!