![]() Mateo’s relationships with his friends Kimmie and Adam (a potential love interest) also suffer repercussions as he keeps his situation a secret. The adults around Mateo offer support to him and his 7-year-old sister, Sophie, however, he knows he is now responsible for caring for her and the bodega as well as trying to survive junior year-that is, if he wants to fulfill his dream to enter the drama program at the Tisch School of the Arts and become an actor. The Garcias live in fear until the day both parents are picked up his Pa is taken to jail and his Ma to a detention center. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents show up unsuccessfully seeking his Pa at his New York City bodega. Mateo’s life is turned upside down the day U.S. Even so, this is a realm of exprience almost unknown to us demons.Īnd the dream that becomes the plane Dragonwings lifts this into a world where truth and imagination are one.Ī Mexican American boy takes on heavy responsibilities when his family is torn apart. law-he learns to drink a disgusting substance called cow's milk, she rethinks her old ideas about dragons-depend more on familiar tensions and humorous accommodations. Other elements, such as Moon Shadow's rapprochement with Mrs. Windrider (based loosely on an actual Chinese-American aviator) is a fascinating figure who believes deeply in the old myths and is entranced by the new magic of electricity, motor cars and aeronautics. ![]() But this is mostly the story of Moon Shadow's devotion to his dreamer father, who is given the name Windrider by the Dragon King himself in a vision and who fulfills his destiny by building, at enormous sacrifice, a twelve horsepower airplane similar to the one the Wrights had flown only a few years before. Whitlaw, and lives in the demon part of town until the earthquake comes. ![]() Later, Moon Shadow actually makes friends with a red-faced demon, the doughty Mrs. only to end up in the Tang people's quarter of San Francisco where the drunken "demons" often beat up Tang men and his uncle Black Dog, an opium smoker and a crook, keeps the family all too involved with the brotherhoods. In the beginning, all is strangeness to Moon Shadow as he leaves the Middle Kingdom to join his father in the Land of the Golden Mountain.
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