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.
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