In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, there is a free man who works as a railroad worker. He is the grandfather of the narrator, and he left home multiple times to work in America. He took "the Chessman's chance" to provide for his wife and family. Similarly, in The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains, the Great Grandfather of the narrator came to Hawaii as a hardworking Chinese laborer. He endured tough conditions for three years out of love and eventually returned home as promised. In Alaska China Men, Captain Carroll, a white man, saved the China Men who were adrift in an old ship by providing them with water and food and offered to sail them home. China Joe, a Chinese baker, owned a laundry and a garden in Juneau, Al
...aska, and even saved miners from starvation by giving away bread. Therefore, he was loved locally unlike other China Men. Additionally, in The Seatmate by Maxine Hong Kingston, the young man encounters the ghost of a beautiful noblewoman on a rainy day. She serves him hearty meals and offers him work to make him stay with her forever. Finally, in The Father from China by Maxine Hong Kingston, the legal father of the narrator is a scholar who tries to go and work in America.The protagonist of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun is a Chinese adventurer named Lo Bun Sun who had lived on an isolated island for decades and had rescued Sing Kay Eng from the savages. Lo Bun Sun spent most of his life going on adventures and eventually returned to his birthplac
as an elderly man. Mad SAA is an American Chinese character in The Making of More, who was driven insane by the ghost of his deceased mother, who kept following him due to her requests in letters. Mad SAA is a nickname for the Chinese men who worked in unbearable conditions in the Sandalwood Mountains, lacking love and homes. Finally, The Wild Man, a Taiwanese character from The Wild Man of the Green Swamp, survived in the tough environment of the swamp in America with a strong desire to go home. Sadly, he committed suicide as he knew he could never return "home."
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