Introduction:
This essay attempts to analyze the relationships of love, hubris and isolation in the novels American Born Chinese and No No Boy where we have contrasting tales and characters which have several different outcomes. The characters analyzed are those of Jim Wang in American Born Chinese and Ichiro Yamada in No No Boy who both have to grapple with different problems yet face the same sort of problems at the end of the day. Both novels are social commentaries which are important to the understanding and intrinsic reflection of the situation faced by Japanese Americans as well as Chinese ...
