response #8

For this week I was able to get through American Born Chinese and Stuck Rubber Baby.  In American Born Chinese, the characters definitely portrayed what we think of as the typical Chinese/Asian stereotype. Anywhere from dress, culture the text and was that the characters talked.  Even the style of the novel itself had an asian quality to it with its bold colors and shapes, as it seemed to have a more simple cartoon like feel. I also thought that the three different stories that are suppose to intertwine in this novel worked well also. As for Stuck Rubber Baby it deals with more racial stereotypes due to the fact that it's set during the Black Civil Rights movement and on top of that you have the main character who's trying to deal with his homosexuality.  But although this novel has humor I feel that it's on a more serious level due to the time setting.  I think the style of the images also reflects in the time due to the darkness of it, as the images are cartoon-ish they have quite a bit of detail and line hatching.