What role does laughter play in American Born Chinese? by Ms. Leaks

msleaks — 2025-04-02 01:44:57 UTC

American Born Chinese uses laughter to show the difficult truths about racism and fitting in. When Jin’s classmates laugh at his Chinese lunch, it shows how kids from different backgrounds are often made fun of instead of accepted. Danny’s nervous laughter at Chin-Kee’s over-the-top behavior makes both him and the reader think about how stereotypes are spread in movies and TV.

2025-04-03 18:26:36 UTC

In American born Chinese laughter is used to amplify uncomfortable situations. It is also used to kind of single out and make a scene in the book or character more focused on. The author uses laughter to make you aware of uncomfortable things/situations that do happen.

2025-04-03 18:28:27 UTC

Laughter plays an important role in Chinese. It shows how laughter can play an important role when it comes to fitting in. Laughter can do so much to a person it can make them want to change themselves as much as they can.

s149909 — 2025-04-03 18:28:45 UTC

In American Born Chinese laughter plays a role because laughter makes the character's attitude change in a way. It makes them think about how they don't fit in and they get laughed at because of it. It makes them reflect on why they aren't fitting in or why they are getting laughed at. For example, The Monkey King got laughed at due to him being a monkey and not having shoes. That made his attitude change in an angry way and later he changed himself by starting to wear shoes and identifying himself as something else other then a monkey.

s149663 — 2025-04-03 18:32:07 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight show characters being uncomfortable because it shows the characters emotions. It makes readers think about how the characters are being uncomfortable and the setting and tons of the chapter. Through humor, the book helps us understand how situations make one, in reality and in books very uncomfortable.

2025-04-03 18:33:24 UTC

In American Born Chinese laughter plays an important role because the author is showing us the characters that are laughing at the monkey aren't taking him seriously. I believe them laughing makes the monkey king mad, sad, and not to like his true self. I feel the author is trying to show an example of laughing at someone and send a message to the readers that that's not nice or kind to laugh at someones appearance that they can not change.

s149635_2 — 2025-04-03 18:33:30 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight racism because the novel shows a lot of racism. For example, when Chin-Kee arrived to his cousins house, it shows him speaking bad English. He can't get his R's and I's right. This makes readers think about how they stereotype specific people. Through humor, the book helps us understand how the media and books make certain type of people.

s166176_2 — 2025-04-03 18:33:38 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight racism because they are making fun of their culture of their looks or even how they act and talk

2025-04-03 18:34:08 UTC

The laughter in abc plays a big role in how the characters react in this book.The laughter shows how the characters feel ashamed of their culture.This causes them to change who they are so they can fit in.Or feel like they fit in.

2025-04-03 18:35:43 UTC

The laughter in American Born Chinese shows that it can change someones beliefs or personality.Laughter can be very impactful to someone and the Monkey King is an example of how much it can make you self-aware of who you are and it can possibly make you change yourself.

2025-04-03 18:35:52 UTC

Laughter in America born Chinese is used to highlight the racism and stereotypes being portrayed. For example when cousin Chin-Kee was introduced, it shows the type of uncomfortable racial stereotypes that were being expressed. This makes the reader feel uncomfortable and uneasy.

2025-04-03 18:37:23 UTC

in American born to be Chinese laughter is used to express how the character mood or attitude changes. it can also make them overthink about how they can change themselves to fit in to the rest of the people. also it makes them feel really left out and makes them think about everything they have to change about themselves to be able to fit in

2025-04-03 18:37:25 UTC

Laughter plays an important role in American born Chinese because it shows how it can affect someone mentally and physically.It makes that person think that everybody should do the same thing as him thinking is good to change you identity.

2025-04-03 18:37:26 UTC

Laughter in American born in Chinese is used to highlight bully because they make Chinese characters look funny . For example Chin-Kee it shows with big teeth and big Chinese food pick up containers. This make reader laugh of the character .This book make us understand that everyone might make fun of someone.

2025-04-03 18:37:45 UTC

Laughter plays an important role in American Born Chinese because it helps show the struggles of the Jin Wang, in a way that is both funny and uneasy. The book uses humor to show stereotypes and misunderstanding about Chinese culture, making readers think while also making them laugh. For example, the character Chin-Kee is an overplayed stereotype that is meant to be funny, showing how harmful these stereotypes can be. Laughter also helps keep the book funny while also having a serious topic.

2025-04-03 18:37:49 UTC

In American Born Chinese laughter is used to make fun of a character or group of people. The laughter is often being directed to a racial stereotype and making the target embarrassed and search for ways to make it stop. This is shown when both the Monkey King and Jin are both looked down on and laughed at. They both feel embarrassed and change themselves and hide the parts that are laughed at. (Amaya Rodgers)

2025-04-03 18:38:08 UTC

what make them similar is that they both felt the same type of trauma and same feelings make them aware of the challenges they face in the navigating white society and racial acts towards them both of them was uncomfortable laughter the novel is deep and have a understanding how people was cultural assimilation

2025-04-03 19:31:22 UTC

the role it takes is to demoralize people and show how horrible people are. and how it needs to change

2025-04-03 19:32:23 UTC

Laughter is a weapon used to humiliate someone. When the monkey king said he was a great sage , they laughed at him for belittling his achievements and effort to change. Also, it used emphasize enbarszzment like when the monkey king I rejected and he thinks every one is laughing at him so he beats them all.

2025-04-03 19:33:38 UTC

The laughter plays an important role in american chinese because it shows that it will effect on how the person feels about himself. It can make them feel like an outsider that they dont fit in. And the person will try to change themself to try to fit in but would never reveal how they really are.

2025-04-03 19:34:17 UTC

in american born chinese the laughter plays a role where it shows where racism is happening.

2025-04-03 19:35:06 UTC

the laughter plays a good i in the story because they make make fun of him even if he's strong and they wont care what they say about because there mean:(

2025-04-03 19:36:09 UTC

In American Born Chinese laughter plays a big role in all the stories because its used to humiliate a character in the story. Its similar for the laugh tracks except only the reader knows its there and its used to show what people are supposed to think is funny, it is usually a stereotype that is included with a laugh track. For example the monkey king tries to get into the party but they decline him and the deities laugh at him which changes the way he sees everything. Another example is when Chin-Kee appears there is always a laugh track when he does or says something.

2025-04-03 19:37:24 UTC

I think it shows Laughter plays a role in American Born Chinese by making fun people and not taking them seriously. In a racist way because they are laughed at by their looks and the way they talk and their accent. They are also laughed at and they are treated like very unserious people. They are laughing at their culture as well and how they are.

2025-04-03 19:38:49 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight conflict. For example when a student was getting bully and basically got laugh at in his face. Another example is when Monkey King was denied entrance, and people around him were also laughing at his face. These laughter in those situation lead to the main character changing themselves as a different person phycially or mentally.

2025-04-03 19:38:55 UTC

in American born Chinese laughter plays a role because the different laughter in each chapter shows the vibe of what they are laughing at or feeling. For example in the chapter "Everyone Ruvs Chin-kee" you can tell in Danny laughter that he is feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable. Another example in this is in chapter 2 the white kids are laughing at Jin Wang because of his race.

2025-04-03 19:39:18 UTC

Laughter in American born Chinese is used to show emotion and how it could be a way of bullying.For example in Chapter 4 The deities were making fun of the monkey king because they were laughing at him so he got mad. It shows that if you laugh at anyone be careful because it can crucial. It also helps the reader what type of characters they are by the way they react.

2025-04-03 19:39:22 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight how they ridicule other people. For example when those 2 bullies laughed at Jin Wang for his lunch. It shows the racism hidden underneath. This makes readers think about certain differences .Through humor, the book helps us understand how and why this is happening and gives us a deeper sense of what's going on.

2025-04-03 19:39:26 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight racism and hate because whenever the characters are being laughed at it's when they are receiving racism or being bullied. For example, when Jin-Wang was being bullied by his classmates, they laughed at him as they walked away, it shows hate and negativity. This makes readers think about how this could happen in real life when people get bullied, how being laughed at could feel.

-Victor Sosa

2025-04-03 19:39:39 UTC

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2025-04-03 19:40:18 UTC

In American-born Chinese, laughter highlights why the Monkey King starts trying to be someone he isn't because he was made fun of and embarrassed. For example, when he went to the deitys to tell them he isn't a monkey, they laughed at him, it shows he was trying to change himself thinking he was going to be accepted and treated with respect. This makes readers think about how they treat other people and how it can change them.

2025-04-03 19:41:02 UTC

Laughter plays an important role in american born Chinese because when your laughing about making fun of someone it can take a toll on someones mental health. When someone is laughing at you because you don´t fit in it would probably make you feel really bad and like you don´t belong. Laughter could be a good or bad thing just depending on what your laughing about in this case its bad and it shows racism to monkey king and the boy.

s150657 — 2025-04-03 19:41:34 UTC

Laughter in American born Chinese is used to highlight embarrassment and frustration because every time that there has been laughter it was added to embarrass the character. For example, when the monkey king wasn't let in the dinner party because he was a monkey the whole party laughed which caused the monkey king to become embarrassed and frustrated, it shows that laughter is meant to embarrass the character. This makes the reader think about how laughter could embarrass people by showing examples in the story of it happening. Through humor, the book helps us understand how laughter can mentally affect people.

2025-04-03 19:42:22 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight the reactions of people in the book. For example, when the Monkey King showed up a second time, changed his name, and named what he could do, everyone laughed. That's how they showed their opinions. This made the readers know how they felt about the Monkey King and that not only did they not take the Monkey King seriously, they laughed and told jokes.

s1496171 — 2025-04-03 19:42:28 UTC

In American born Chinese, Laughter plays a big part in all the stories because it's used to humiliate a character and not really take them seriously. For example, when Chin-Kee appeared, he had a whole laugh track for him.

2025-04-03 19:43:17 UTC

Laughter in American-born Chinese is used to show them getting laughed at for saying something "funny" for example when Chin-kee was talking they kept laughing at him for the way he was talking the characters are unaware of it and don't know their getting laughed at. it makes us readers think about how they feel and how they feel uncomfortable but it helps us understand more

2025-04-03 21:02:39 UTC

In American Born Chinese laughter is used to imply how a character might be feeling uncomfortable or made fun of. Laughter can also hurt someone to where they would want to change themselves. It also could be used as a form of judgement to get someone to feel embarrassed or hurt . For example when The monkey king was denied access to the dinner part and the other deities laughed at him and he reacted violently out of embarrassment .

2025-04-03 21:10:39 UTC

In American Born Chinese laughter plays a role in the story because. It shows how it can dramatically change a persons identity/appearance/ looks/or even personality. Just to fit in within others. Laughter is shows by all the racists comments said to a specific character in the story.

2025-04-03 21:11:37 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese highlights differences between people and how they view others who are different. For example, when the Monkey King sees himself as equal to the other deities, they laugh at him; it shows they view him as the monkey he is, not as his accomplishments. Through humor, the book helps us understand how some people only see others as their physical appearance and not their personality and their actions.

s150710 — 2025-04-03 21:11:38 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese to highlight how someone can feel out of place with who they are because of the way they are treated and seen by society. For example, Danny feels sort of embarrassed for who his cousin Chin-Kee is/acts because he already knows that if he were to attend school he would not be accepted. This makes the reader understand how people can honestly be afraid of who they are because of how they're afraid of how they're going to be seen.

s155869 — 2025-04-03 21:12:13 UTC

Laughter plays an important in American Born Chinese. When laughter comes into the story it shows something negative coming up. For example, something negative could be about their looks, and it could get to a point where it affects the character. This shows us that humor is taken in a different way by everyone, and that there's still a lot of sterotypes out there.

-Melissa Aldama Avina

2025-04-03 21:12:49 UTC

Laughter in America Born Chinese is used to highlight racism because they were making fun of the monkey. For example, when the monkey got laughed at for being a monkey, it showed he was being treated unfairly, and that made him frustrated. This makes readers think about how he was being made fun of for being "different". Through humor, the book helps us understand that being racist can happen in different ways.

-Priscilla F

2025-04-03 21:13:27 UTC

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Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight bullying and meant to put people down. For example when the monkey king is getting laughed at by deities after he tells them his new identity, it shows they think hes a joke. This makes readers think about racism and discrimination . Through humor the book helps us understand how it can affect peoples identity.

2025-04-03 21:15:28 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight discrimination because there are many times where someone is getting laughed at, for their race. For example, when Jim Wang gets mocked, and gets racial jokes towards him for his race, it shows the laughter, and unseriousness towards him. This makes readers think about how Jim Wang feels, and his thoughts. Through Humor, the book helps us understand how kids from a different culture, or race, are treated by one another.

s154396 — 2025-04-03 21:15:58 UTC

In American Born Chinese ,the laughter is used sometimes during the story to highlighting racist "jokes" or to just highlight embarrassing moments in the story.I personally think the laugh track is just a desperate attempt to get people laughing,or to catch a reaction out of someone,or to put someone down.

2025-04-03 21:16:00 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight life as an immigrant because the way it uses the Monkey King, they judge him for being different and trying to fit in a culture and trying to change yourself to fit in. For example, when the Monkey King changed and improved himself, he was still judged and not taken seriously by the other deities; it shows people are always going to judge you, so just do you. This makes readers think about just staying true to yourself .Through humor, the book helps us understand people struggle to fit in a new culture or environment, and even though they follow and get well informed with the customs and traditions, people will still consider them an outsider.

s1708271 — 2025-04-03 21:16:08 UTC

In American-born Chinese, laughter plays the important role of emphasizing when someone doesn't fit in. In the monkey king when he gets laughed at after being denied entry to the dinner party, he gets really upset because he's being judged and humiliated just for being a monkey. In the story about Chin-kee there's laughter pretty much anytime he says anything because his whole character is based on how other people perceive him in a judgey way and its meant to make the readers feel bad.

2025-04-03 21:16:34 UTC

Laughter in american born chinese made the monkey crashout becuase he was frustrated and they just kept testing his buttons so he had to show them who is boss. For example when the monkey king was laughed at by the dieties infront of his face and insulting him was a reasonable crashout.

s181688_2 — 2025-04-03 23:39:34 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese shows how being different can make people feel left out. It makes characters like the Monkey King and Jin feel bad and hurt. It also makes readers think about if the joke is funny or just mean. In the end laughter helps show the problems with stereotypes.

2025-04-04 00:16:25 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese serves as both entertainment and a way to address deeper themes like identity and cultural stereotypes. Gene Luen Yang uses humor to highlight the struggles of fitting in, often exaggerating characters and situations to make a point. The Monkey King’s antics and Chin-Kee’s over-the-top portrayal use comedy to reveal uncomfortable truths about discrimination and self-acceptance. By blending humor with serious topics, Yang engages readers while encouraging them to reflect on these issues.

2025-04-04 02:59:20 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese highlights identity struggles because it makes serious topics easier to understand. For example, when Jin's hair changes after he wishes to be more American, it shows how badly he wants to fit in. This makes the reader think about how hard it can be to accept yourself. Through humor, the book helps us understand the challenges of growing up between two cultures.

2025-04-21 19:50:38 UTC

Laughter in American Born Chinese is used to highlight someone who doesn't fit in or is different. For example, when the monkey king goes to the deity party, it shows the others deity's laughed at him cause he's a monkey . This makes readers think about racism and discrimination or even the feeling a being left out. Through humor, the book helps us understand how its wrong to discriminate cause it can make one forget there true self.

2025-04-22 18:58:04 UTC

in american born chinese laugher plays a good role beucase is shows how people are being mean to him and being rasict towards him

2025-04-24 06:24:31 UTC

in American born Chinese laughter plays a role on how it can affect other people. and on fitting in and feeling like they are doing something wrong when people are laughing.and this can happen in any situation. it can also affect someones mental and physically health