OnlineConferencewithGeneYang-ByJanelLucas

Lucas 1 Janel Lucas October 22, 2008 English 8-5.5 Online Conference with Gene Yang I have never met an author of a book before so I was very eager to meet the author, Gene Yang of an award winning book, __American Born Chinese.__ This conference was a great experience and very kind of Gene Yang to spend his time with us to learn more about this book. Gene Yang was also very funny. I found many things very interesting and many things I didn’t know. I found it very interesting that Gene got the idea of Monkey King’s shoes from his mother and even more ideas. She also wrote all the Chinese in __ABC.__ It surprised me that he had to go to Chinese school every weekend for 12 years. I really regret not asking him if he was from the states though. This helped me a lot understanding __ABC.__ I now understand that Gene Yang wanted us to use our imaginations during the transformations of the characters. I understand that many of the characters or characters’ story line was based on a friend or one of his students. I also understand why it took Gene Yang a really long time to finish this book because each page takes almost 4 to 8 hours to create. Gene Yang made a good statement when he said that “ The Chinese Backstreet boys were used __in__ American Pop Culture and William Hung was used __by__ American Pop Culture.” I have to admit that I wasn’t all that excited about the conference,until we actually saw Gene Yang. Now I think that this is the best information that you could find on a book you really like. I would choose to meet another author and even Gene Yang again in a heartbeat. Thank You Mrs. Barth for setting this up with Gene Yang.