The book Bone is a glance at the lives of a Chinese-American family living in Chinatown, and trying to just make it. Mah, Leila’s mother, left her home of China in pursuit of the elusive “American dream” and came up short. The book Bone by Fae Myenne Ng attempts to communicate that the so called “American dream” is impossible to attain and that one has to make his or her own dream happen.
No one in the book seems to want this “dream” more than Mah. “Twenty-five years in the land of gold and good fortune, and then she returned to tell her story: the years spent in sweatshops, the prince of Golden Mountain turned into a toad, and three daughters: one unmarried, another who-cares-where, one dead” (24). From this passage one can safely assume that the “American dream” at least consists of a united family that is alive, well fed, and prosperous. We can also assume that the married daughters are married to upstanding, well-bred gentlemen. “When she left Hong......

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Title: American Dream
Approximate Word Count: 714
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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