American Born Chinese vs. The Bluest Eye

The books American Born Chinese and The Bluest Eye both taked about the issue of race.  The Bluest Eye was aimed more toward African Americans, while American Born Chinese was aimed at Chinese. I think American Born Chinese does a really good job at showing how many people look at different races.  I like how it took 3 different stories and in the end brought them all together. It shows how some people can be so rude and hate a different race.  While at the same time other people love them.  Like take Chinkee, for instance,  his own cousin dispises him and hates when he comes to visit every year.  While when all his class mates love him.  Instead of finding him embarrassing they find him hilarious.  Both books for the most part share the theme of racism.  Its very broad but they both share it. 

Unit 2 =)

I really liked the video about the blue eyes and brown eyes.  I like how she was brave enough to put such young children into the positions they were in.  I definately agree that all teachers who are in a program or a curriculum where they would teach this in their classroom should be trained.  It wouldn't take much at all to mess up this lesson and lose the meaning and focus of it.  It takes a brave teacher to start this and do such an amazing job and being a true success at it.  I also really liked the book American Born Chinese.  I read it last year and I found it comical.  I don't know if that is the way it is supposed to be portrayed but that is how I see it.  I like how in the end all the individual stories in the book become one and you can finally see why they are set up the way they are.  The way the book is written makes it very interesting and very easy and fun to read.  I found the Bluest Eye a very hard read.  I found it very confusing and a little hard to keep all the characters straight.  I had to reread several parts of the book because it was very hard to follow.  My favorite part of this unit was American Born Chinese and also the Class Divided Video.