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Reflection

                This project helps me understand more about the story by reading in over and over again until I understand it. Actually I read book just scanning at it without full understanding, but because this project is a lot of percentage in English II subject so I need to really understand it. If don’t have this project I could hardly to get one book and read it, because due to the technology now a days, I can watch the story in movie, it have sound and the picture is moving unlike the book which only have word. After doing this project I find out that reading book was actually not that boring if you really understand the story, it tell you more information and all the information are very detail. This project also help me learn a lot of vocabs, I open dictionary and search what the word mean so that I could know how the story was going, sometimes I also use my computer to find the meaning of the word by using dictionary.com or google translate. Not only this project, this story also teach me something that I should feel happy with what I have now, I have friends, parents, teacher, and people around me. If you read this story you will know it, that how your life and Kai Ting life was.

Goals, dreams, and motives

The main character name Kai Ting, he was a black male youth that can’t see very well, his body is small, and he get’s beaten up a lot even by small kids who want to prove they’re strong. He just dream to be a normal people like other does, he don’t want to get bully by other. He can’t speak English well to, so he also dreams to speak English well because so that he can communicate with other understandable. He was even born in America, all his sister speak English better than him even they did not born in America. His Mah – Mee has died of breast cancer, he forsure will dream about his Mah – mee to come back alive again one day because this step mother Edna was so bad, she use physical and emotional abuse to him and his sister, unlike Mah – mee they are just opposite.

               

Later, he go to learn some fighting skill at YMCA, the motivate come from all the one who bully him. He learns this fighting skill so that he can protect himself. Actually, Kai had learned from Mah-mee that fighting was bad for his karma, so he struggles with fighting back and learning to fight. He know that if he don’t learn, he can’t protect himself and other will keep on bully him, but if he know how to fight and how to protect himself, no one will dare to bully him anymore.

               

                His goal is to get other people accepted him like normal people. Whenever other people see him they will bully him, other people bully him because they want to prove that they were strong. His goal to learn some fighting skill to prevent himself, so he go learn at YMCA, and at last he success, he win against Big Willie Mack the biggest bully that bully him.

Time Line

China Boy Event

 

Mah-Mee very his only son, Kai Ting

Edna physical and emotional abuse Kai Ting

 

 

Kai learning at YMCA and meet many wonderful people like uncle Shim and Mr. Lewis.

 

 

 

 Kai Ting fight with Big Willie Mack (I want to jump inside and help Kai fighting).

China Boy Summary 211-322

Uncle Shim buys Kai new clothes, which make him look very Chinese style, and takes him to the chess association meeting, where they friendly to him because they are men without families.  Shim who feels like to give up in boxing now feels good about it.  Kai feels like a he was a first-born son. Uncle Shim is a good friend of Kai’s father, but he was a closer friend with Mah-mee.  He was to be Kai’s tutor (like Tutor Luke had been to the girls) and when TK or Kai father was gone, he did come and stay with the family.  Uncle Shim is a traditional Chinese man whose is wise and he calls Kai Haushehen (able student), which is a great honor.

  Uncle Shim says Kai is their collective only son, and the hope for a new China. Uncle Shim compared to Hector. Hector is a mechanic at Cutty’s garage, one of the first non-black and non-Chinese people Kai meets.  He tells Kai to call him tío, he is the one who influences Kai to go to the YMCA, and he teaches him some Spanish and to walk in a more appropriate way.  He believes you should never hide from a fight, a man should fight like a man not to hide. He believes that the problem will still stay there someday you still need to solve it so why not to fight now.  He is a war vet and has tattoos.

After Kai fighting against Jerome (Lucky) Washington and winning, Kai realizes that it is so stupid but is he feel better that he won. Later Kai just discovers about gender difference when he realizes his sisters won’t learn to box. Normaly the girl won’t learn about those boxing and fighting, usually the boy will learn.

Big Willie Mack the biggest bad guy and Jerome beat Kai up.  Kai feel depressed and he skips the first Y lesson of the new year to go to the beach and remember his mother Mah-Mee. He never skip the class before this is his first time. Mr. Lewis finds out Kai is upset because he was beat up and because he can’t remember his mother’s face.  Kai’s fight with Big Willie is to be a baptism of childhood.

The night before the fight, Kai sleeps with his talisman (his blankie, a picture of his mother, Hector’s Yankees hat, the tractor oil Hector gave him to throw on Willie to make him angry) in the bathtub. Kai beats Willie so badly he looks like Jerome’s mother after she was almost killed by her husband. After  Kai win, he says “Tsou gou wan ba dan” ? After the fight and having gotten cleaned up by Toos’s mom, Kai goes home, rings the doorbell, and when Edna won’t let him in, so he says, “You not my Mah-mee…I ain’t fo’ yo’ pickin-on no mo’!”

China Boy Summary 111- 210

Kai tries to run away again, and the first time, Edna have stopped him from the first time, but  this time he was able to run away, this time he goes to Toussaint’s building and he leaves after that place after finding Suds (the drunk who used to be a fighter). Toussaint is a kid Kai’s age, who gives him some fighting pointers, tells him fighting has roots in slavery because men could prove their manhood, and wants to hear stories about his father because his died in WWII.  Toussaint’s mother is a maternal figure for Kai.  She is very poor, but shares her food and love.  Toos tries to help Kai talk in a way more appropriate for his neighborhood.

Kai get’s beaten up a lot and even the small kids also and when Kai tries to fight back for the first time, the kid runs away with a bloody nose, but his older sister finds him and beats him badly in a garbage can.  Hector has to say something to convince her to stop. Hector cleans him up in Cutty’s garage then and then he talks to Kai’s dad about him needing to learn to box at the YMCA.  Edna is very judgmental. So, Kai and his father have some talk about having been in the war, his brother Han being a Chinese boxer, and how he (TK) is American, but maybe China would be better for Kai because he’s is very weak. He needs to learn some boxing so that he can help himself preventing the bully.

Kai’s father takes Kai out of school to go with him to the bank to deliver the money he had been trusted to transport.  Kai father do like this because he wants to teach Kai about honesty and work ethic, but they didn’t communicate well together.

Mr. Lewis was an African American instructor at the Y, supervisor over the other instructors.  He believes in a mind-first approach to boxing. Mr. Lewis encourages Kai to speak clearly because Kai is the only American-born child in the family and he was the only one who struggles with English because the others had had formal teachers.