Saturday, October 18, 2008

Bone Symbolic

The novel Bone by Fae Myenne Ng, real symbolizes the need to have an identity. It also portrays the lives of chinese immigrants in America, their hardship and difficulty in adapting to the American lifestyle and culture. The fact that that similar stories are told in this bone, is symbolic of the fact that there are people from the chinese culture who comes to America and are still trying to find an identity. When people moves from one place to the other is affects their identity. Most persons from other cultures, in particular the chineses struggles to find an identity. Many of them are strong influence to change their identity. Many become lost in the cloud of trying to find an identity. Trying hard to fix in with the American culture causes them to become depressed and block off in their minds because their chinese indentity is being question all the time which makes them feel that they have to find a new identity.

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