He tells Danny/Jin that he cannot hide who he truly is and that his dyed hair and colored contacts are only an illusion. You wouldn't think Jin would want to be friends with Wei-Chen, and he doesn't, but they become friends anyway because Wei-Chen's a really nice guy who has cool toys, like a robot that can change into a robot monkey (think: Taiwanese Transformer). Meanwhile, back at the Monkey King's prison. It is a version of the Monkey King tale. He's this simple dude: nothing special, just a really nice guy who's into serving others. The novel ends with Jin finding Wei in an area of Chinatown in Oakland. Learn more Suzy happens to be Wei-Chen's girlfriend. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. He agrees to lead his Master into the desert. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Born in China near you. Jin realizes that he not only needs to reconcile with Wei-Chen, but he needs to reconcile with himself, just as the Monkey King urged. In the opening chapters, the gods and goddesses are having a party. For the sake of your sanity (and ours), we'll just give you the general gist of each story, one at a time. The date goes well and Jin's on cloud nine until this popular white guy with curly blonde hair more or less tells Jin to leave Amelia alone. Looking for movie tickets? A remarkable look at the wildlife in China. See it opening week and you'll support the World Wildlife Fund. She asks him who he would like to become and—dun dun dun—he wakes up, looks in the mirror, and sees that he's now blonde and white. He tries to convince the Monkey King to stop his rampage and just be who he's supposed to be—a monkey—but the Monkey King's not down with that and tries to show how powerful he is. Enter your location to see which It looks like he's someone who's just about to fit in with the popular crowd at school. He's got this thing going with this blonde girl (who looks a lot like Amelia but isn't), and the jocks are starting to pay attention to him in a good way. This doesn't happen, though, and Wei-Chen totally rebels against his father and rejects the teachings of Tze-Yo-Tzuh. This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - He tells Jin that Wei-Chen was really the Monkey King's son, and his final task had been to take human form and to remain uncorrupted for forty years. The book then switches to Jin's story in the second chapter and, for the third chapter, switches to the story of Danny (Jin's alter-ego). Buy Movies. They seem to get along great, but the next day she dumps him when the popular boy asks her out. This infuriates the King and he goes on a rampage, breaking expensive pieces of art, furniture, and even strong-arms some of the gods in his anger. Screen Reader Users: To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our Flixster.com website, which has the same tickets as our Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com websites. This is all part of his elementary school years, and by the middle of the book things speed up to Jin's life at a new, mostly white, junior high school.