American Born Chinese Transformation Quotes

This book is supposed to be all about Jin and the Monkey King, but Wei-Chen definitely has a way of sneaking up on you. Take this scene for example: Wei-Chen is teasing Jin about his crush on Amelia, when Jin tells him to "'stop acting like such an F.O.B.!'" Instead of getting all offended by that term, Wei-Chen totally takes it in stride and says "'Hm. This is true.'" Then out of nowhere, in the next panel he's got a girlfriend: Suzy Nakamura. The guy can change things in a second. What's the point of Wei-Chen's transformation though? It shows that Wei-Chen knows how to adapt, whereas Jin can't find the courage to even talk to Amelia.

Jin can't stop obsessing over the possibility that Amelia might like blond, curly-haired Greg. So what does he do? He changes his hairstyle and goes to school the next day with curly hair just like Greg's (only not blond). Of course, nothing really changes. Jin just ends up looking silly instead, especially to the people who know him best—Wei-Chen and Suzy.

Wong Lao-Tsai is the one character who doesn't change in the book. He does the same thing everyday—feed the homeless and tend to their wounds. He doesn't need to transform because he already knows who he is and what he wants: to serve the homeless faithfully for Tze-Yo-Tzuh. A transformation for him would just be excessive, and as such, out of character.