American Born Chinese Chapter 4 Summary

The Summary
This chapter starts out with a very hilarious picture of monkeys 'hanging' from a tree. The setting is the monkeys kingdom and tells of how the monkey made two new laws. All monkeys MUST wear shoes and not to bother him. It is during this time that he masters 8 new Kung-Fu disaplines. After comes out of the cave he went into to learn he was given an exaction notice for coming to heaven. He goes to the place...and beats the crap out of every single god to announce his new name, The Great Sage Equal Of Heaven. Then all the gods complain about the Monkey King to the Emissaries of Tze-Yo-Tzuh (TUT), the creator of all. TUT arrives to talk the Monkey King sand he tells him that he is what TUT He created him to be. Monkey then goes on about how he was born of a rock and TUT says he formed him in the rock;monkey says prove it. TUT then tells Monkey King who he is and says you are always in my reach. The monkey then challenges that statement by running away faster than TUTs arm and grow long enough to chatch him. He runs so far he goes out of reality only to find 5 pillars of gold. He writes his name and pees on one and goes back...only to find those were TUTs fingers. After faced with the fact he can't change who he is and refuses to repent he is buried under a mountian of rock until he learns who he is.

The Guts of It
This is my favorite part of the book. TUT to me is like God. When he buries the Monkey King it to me is like how He punishes us so we learn whats right and wrong. But he does it out of love because Monkey King was going to live a hard life. But because of what TUT did he will learn his true self. You will see. Oh yes, you will see - Yoda

American Born Chinese Chapter 3 Summary

The Summary
This a short chapter but he introduced a new character at the same time. So this is a American boy and girl who are studying at the boys house for a test. The boy, who we find out his name is Danny, tries to ask the girl out when his mom makes a very interesting announcement with an odd reaction from Danny. He looked terrified when his mom told him his cousin Chin-Kee is coming all the way from China to their house to spend the week. Ironically, he arrives not a second after she says so...and Murph's law comes back to ruin his life. He creeps out the girl and then says he will go to school with "Cousin Da-Nee". Uh-oh.

The Guts of It
Every person has that embarrassing person that always find a way to ruin it all. We just have to learn to deal with it and make the best of it. Not much to say really.

American Born Chinese Chapter 2 Summary

The Summary
It starts out with a familly riding in a car to their new home and the little boy listening to his mom tell him an Old Chinese parible about I boy who, wherever he moves, adapts to the surrounding community. The story ends when they pull up to their new house. Then it tells about his old house and his friends. Then his mom goes to the herbalist cerk that tells Jin Wang how to change him-self into that ever he wishs, by forfiting your soul(IMPORTAINT. Then the story goes even farther into the history and tells of how his parents met. Now were to the present where Murphy's law comes in. (What ever can go wrong will go wrong.) First the teacher introduces Jin Wang's name wrong and tells the class "...he moved all the way from China!" he then calmly corrects the teacher that he moved from San Francisco. One kid then tell how he thought Chinese eat dogs yada yada yada. Well let's just say the kids (except one) didn't quite get along with him very well. So he sat alone and looked quite happy with it. Well then this kid became friends with him (not going to spoil the surprise!). After winter break the kid never came back and who came back was a boy from Taiwan. Some made Jin not like him (Jin: Chinese, new boy: Taiwan) his name was Wei-Chen Sun. It ends with...them becoming great friends.

The Guts of It
Basically it's just back history on the kid so you understand what his life was like and you can understand what happens next. By far my favorite part is where the kid in the front row says "My mom says Chinese eat dogs.". This is a perfect example of stereotyping people wrongly. Besides, everyone knows that's North Koreans.

American Born Chinese Chapter 1 Summary

The Summary

The book starts out telling you about the Great Monkey King who was born of a rock and defeated the evil Tiger King. After this it talks about how all the the monkeys of the 4 corners of the earth flocked to him. He then rules the land with a firm but gentle hand. He masters the four heavenly disciplines which grant you the title of a god. One of them was the power of increased senses, which comes into play in the next part of the chapter. Now your in the present. He smells the smells of a dinner party, which he loves dearly. So he leaves the kingdom to go  to the party; only to get rejected by the guards men. In a fit of anger he did what no other god or goddess could do, beat the crap out of every single god or goddess at the party! He then leaves (What a way to crash a party!) and thinks of ways to change his appearance to something other that a monkey.

The Guts of It.

The guts of this story, or the part that really stands out to me, the symbolism of the Monkey King going to the party and trying to get in. First, he wasn't invited; kinda like the low guy trying to fit in with the other kids. Second is what the guard says to the Monkey King, "I cant let you in, you don't have any shoes on."; to me this is like the nicer of the kids trying to shoo the kid away before he gets hurt. Last but not least is when the Monkey King beats the crap out of everyone. It kinda sends the point 'Don't underestimate me fool!' across to the reader along with a confidence boost that what they say is not who you are. Its also a prefect example of what not to do.

So far I recommended this book for an in-school reading, but I also recommended this book for individual reading as well.