Part one of term paper
Throughout the book, Mona in the promised land, the main characters are faced with stereotypes which they cannot control. Stereotypes in society shape the way people are perceived. Everyone deals with their stereotype’s in a different way. The two characters who deal with the most stereotypes are Mona, and Barbara. According to thei ...

Part two of term paper
... while Barbara deals with them by changing herself. One of the first stereotypes that Mona is witness to in her life is when she misbehaves. Whenever Mona does not mind her manners her mother will snap at her, "You be a good Chinese girl." Mona recognizes this as a stereotype whenever her mother says it. She finally tells her mother, "I am not Chinese, I am American." By telling her mother that she is an "American" girl, which implies to her mother that she is free to make her own decisions, Mon ...