Initial impression

my initial impression of yang's book... well i was confused!! At first I didnt understand why there were three different stores and how they could al possibly be linked. I though about it and then I realized all of the main characters are ashamed of their backgrounds. For example Jin doesn't want to get made fun of for being chincese so he starts eating sanwiches instead of dumplings and doesn't want to associate with other people from his culture. The monkey king gets made fun of for being a monkey at a dinner party so he starts wearing shoes, trying to be more like a human. Danny is ashamed of his chinese cousin Chinkee so he kind of just blows him off. On pages 82 and 83 in American Born Chinese the monkey King is disciplined in by collapsing the concrete on which he is standing. You can hear the concrete crumbling and the monkey screaming and the rocks falling on top of him the panels are trianglular going on a diagonal showing that there is a conflict or struggle