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Wei-Chen Character

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Wei-Chen is just about the coolest character in the book, American Born Chinese, and being the coolest character in the book comes with its perks, or downsides. Wei-Chen is definitely an abstract character especially because Wei-Chen has two different personalities or “egos”. There is a fake Wei-Chen, and a real Wei-Chen. They both are the same person just show up at different times or act very differently than Wei-Chen normally would. The fake Wei-Chen starts with the moment Jin plants a big wet one on Suzy and Wei-Chen gets upset as a result. But even though he is mad at Jin, he's so humble. He says to Jin,"If you had feelings for Suzy, you could have told me. I would have listened. I wouldn't have turned my back on you. Now you've broken …show more content…

Hes a kid who can't dress, or do his hair, and sure his english is very offset, he is just the friend to have there for you when things go bad. He's honest, like when he calls Jin "a cowardly turtle" for not helping with Amelia take care of the animals in biology class after school. He is the smartest, geekiest, nicest guy who, after Jin apologizes to him starts to analyze the pearl milk tea at the chinese cafe saying something like, “The tea tastes like an oily drink, probably made when there was stir fry being made close by.” Then after accepting Jins apology, invites him to a “real” boba tea shop down the street. Basically the message that Wei-Chen sends is that, all is forgiven. Its just how Wei-Chen acts, he isn't the kind of person to bundle up all the anger and hold a grudge, especially if he sees someone doing good. Like Jin when he makes his apology. Which with all that being said is why Wei-Chen is the coolest character in the book, or better yet the hero. He may seem weird and awkward at first but he doesn't care what anyone thinks and he just goes on with his life. In fact, you can even consider Wei-Chen a major character, just like Jin and the other major characters, Wei-Chen goes through some very big transformations

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