The book I am reading is American Born Chinese written by Gene Luen Yang. This Book is interesting to me as its composed of 3 different stories that all have a similar topic but slightly different layout and meaning. One of the stories is about a boy who moved to an all-American school and was racially profiled and stereotyped for being Asian, he had no real friends at the school until another Asian student came from China and was going through a bit of the same thing as the other boy was. They become close friends and face good and bad together. The second story is based around an American boy whose school experience is ruined every year by his chines cousin who causes trouble and humiliation to the point where he must move schools. The last story is the story I made icograms about, It’s about a monkey king who’s been discriminated by humans. The monkey king is discriminated for something that is natural to him. Because of this his judgment is cloudy and he forces this new human way on his monkey Kingdome, he also seeks and gains a lot of power which he uses poorly to satisfy himself. This ultimately leads to his downfall.
In my first icogram emotionally the monkeys are feeling safe and joyful towards the monkey king who saved they’re land long ago. The physical setting in the first icogram consists of Trees with nectar filled fruits, A floating island, and many of the king’s happy subjects.
The second icogram is a little different. The emotional setting has changed as its now serious yet relaxed, it feels cold almost with hatred but with a sense of warmth and self-care. The physical setting has also changed as now the monkey king is no longer serving his people but serving himself. Hes tucked himself in the deep parts of his cave to harness a power that will make him superior to the humans and the other people who discriminated him. The ground is hard wet and cold, but his body is constantly heating itself gathering and energy.
The third and final icogram shows how even though the monkey king was powerful they’re is always someone more powerful. Physical setting I tried to demonstrate the planets the mountains aswell as the universes. Emotionally it showed that the God was calm and collected but the monkey king felt eager to leave and prove that he is in fact out of the gods reach.
Physical setting: What you can see, touch, smell, taste
Emotional setting: What you feel, sense, think, what’s the mood
Quote #1:8
-“their music and the scent of their wine drifted down…..down….down”…
Quote #2:8
-“……to the flower fruit mountain… where flowers bloomed year-round…and fruits hung heavy with nectar….”
Quote #3:8
-“The monkeys frolicked under the watchful eye of the magical monkey king.”
Quote #4:9
-“Legend has it that long ago,long before almost any monkey could remember, the monkey king was born of a rock”
Quote #5:56
– “he locked himself deep in the inner bowels of his royal chamber, where he studies kung-fu more frequently than ever.”
Quote #6:64
-“The great sage decided to perform for him the discipline of giant form”
Quote #7:70
-“I am tze-yo-tzuh. All that I have created- all of existence- forever remains within the reach of my hand. You I created. Therefore, you can never escape my reach.”
Quote #8:71
-“The great sage flew with as much fury as he could muster.”
Quote #9:72
-“ he flew past the planets and the stars. He flew past the edges of the universe. He flew to the boundaries of reality itself.”
Quote #10:73
– “There, At the end of all that is, the great sage came upon five pillars of gold”
