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The book Bone is a glance at the lives of a Chinese-American family living in Chinatown, and trying to just make it. Mah, Leila’s mother, left her home of China in pursuit of the elusive “American dream� and came up short. The book Bone by Fae Myenne Ng attempts to communicate that the so called “American dream� is impossible to attain and that one has to make his or her own dream happen.
No one in the book seems to want this “dream� more than Mah. “Twenty-five years in the land of gold and good fortune, and then she returned to tell her story: the years spent in sweatshops, the prince of Golden Mountain turned into a toad, and three daughters: one unmarried, another who-cares-where, one dead� (24). From this passage one can safely assume that the “American dream� at least consists of a united family that is alive, well fed, and prosperous. We can also assume that the married daughters are married to upstanding, well-bred gentlemen. “When she left Hong......

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