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Bak Goong Character Analysis
Ah Goong
He is a free man hired as a railroad worker in Maxine Hong Kinston’s The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, who is the Grandfather of the narrator, leaving home several times to work in America. He lived and took “the Chinaman’s chance” to work for the love of his wife and family.

Bak Goong
He is a Chinese labor in Maxine Hong Kinston’s Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains, who is the Great Grandfather of the narrator, coming to Hawaii as a tough worker in land. He endured the hard condition three years for the sake of love and finally went back home as he promised.

Captain Carroll
He is a white man in Maxine Hong Kinston’s Alaska China Men, who saved the China Men adrift in an old ship. He gave them water
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He once saved the miners from starvation and bad winters by giving bread away so he was loved by the local not set drift like other China Men.

The Ghostmate
She is a ghost of a beautiful noblewoman in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Ghostmate, whom the young man met in a raining day. She entertained the young man with hearty meals and abundant work to do, trying to let him stay with her forever.

The Legal Father
He is a scholar trying to go and work in America in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Father from China, who is the father of the narrator. He was jailed and asked questions relating to his family situation and background again and again, and finally legally entered the America.

Lo Bun Sun
He is a Chinese adventurer in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun, who once lived in an isolated island for decades and saved Sing Kay Ng from the savages. He spent most of his life in adventures and finally returned to where he was born at an advanced age.

Mad Sao
He is an American Chinese in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Making of More Americans, whose mother lived in China, starving to death. His indifference to his mother’s requests in letters caused her ghost to keep following him after she died, which drove him

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