Sun Wukong

Hero When I was young, the first hero I recalled was Sun Wukong, who is a monkey king in the Chinese novel Pilgrimage to the West. He can change his shape in 72 different ways, have a “golden cudgel”, a weapon used by Wukong, and fly eighteen thousand miles in a second. All these abilities escort his master to the destination successfully throughout the long journey. Beating the evilness was the reason I considered Wukong as a hero. A few years later, I gradually started to see some superheroes from

University: University of Leiden 14 June 2012 Department: Language and Culture of China Course: Visual Political Communication (BA3) Semester: Summer Semester 2011/2012 Lecturer: Florian Schneider Journey to the West A Textual-Visual Discourse Analysis Name: Stefan Ruijsch (Student No. 0620203) Major: Chinese Studies, BA 3 E-mail: s.ruijsch@umail.leidenuniv.nl Phone: 06-48369645 Address: Vrijheidslaan 256, 2321 DP Leiden Word Count: 9,387 Table of Contents

The book,the Journey to the West first emphasizes how they work together to resist the master.They have four people. Tangseng who is the leader of them and has mission to get the holy scriptures,Song Wukong is the smartest person and good at fighting, Zhu Bajie is supposed be the immortal forever, but he made some mistake ,and he needs make those up, and Sha Wujing, who is the same as Zhu Bajie.They all trust each other,and they have Owen duty.Tang Seng is son of Buddha, so the others protect him

and emerge as the most popular literature out of the four is due to the main character, Sun Wukong or the Monkey King’s immense cultural

The Monkey King The Monkey King is a classic Chinese fable full of legends, superstitions and monsters. The Monkey King, also known as Sun Wukong, was born from a stone egg which had magical powers. Just like any hero, he receives his call to adventure when an old monkey tells him of beings who had achieved immortality. Seduced by the idea, the Monkey Kings trains under a mentor, from whom he learns several powerful magic spells and transformations. He steals a Magic Wishing Staff from the Dragon

I was teleported to another world. Something that I wanted to happen. Earth was boring for me. It was either me being teleported to another world or a fantasy apocalypse happening on earth. You know, spice up life a bit. I should be excited that I am in another world but I am not in my body. Which would have been fine, I didn’t mind being in another body but. Why a monkey? I mean it’s not even a giant gorilla like a King Kong. No. It’s a ten-inch monkey. White fur and blue skin and blue eyes. My

In Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel “American Born Chinese”, the Monkey King and Jin, the two main characters in the novel; where Jin's life is a reflection of the Monkey King's story through their desires to fit in with their environment. There are many events with both the Monkey King and Jin where they each do very similar things like changing how they look (etc.). American Born Chinese is a good representation of the struggle of trying to fit in, not just for Chinese people, but everyone. For

By pausing and closely analyzing works of literature, we may discover a meaning that was not obviously revealed through a simple surface reading. These subtle meanings are referred to as double meanings. Strategies for determining the double meaning of a fairy tale or myth include close examination of the language, the form and content of dialogue within the text, and in this case observing the subtle differences in word-picture combinations. In American Born Chinese, the characters Jin Wang and

spiritually but also physically based on the Monkey King's characteristics: "He sprang from the desk onto the chair, and from the chair to the mattress, and from the mattress up to the desk again, dragging his long arms and heavy knuckles. His head turned from side to side like a quick questioning monkey. ... He picked a flea from behind an ear--is this a flea?--or is it the magic pole in its toothpick state that the King of the Monkeys keeps hidden behind his ear?" (32) Thereafter, this connection

his four disciples: Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy and White horse, and how they battled with different demons on the way to the west in order to get Buddhist scriptures. In the novel, Monkey had its own name called Sun Wukong. The first name Wukong had a Buddhist meaning which is “Aware of Vacuity.” Wukong was a beloved hero in Chinese religion and culture which can be illustrated in The Journey to the West. What does mean to be a hero? A hero can be considered as someone who is admired by his/her great achievements