Moon Shadow Analysis

Moon Shadow, a young chinese boy, is brainwashed by his mother and grandmother that all people in San Francisco in America are “Demons.” Moon Shadow's father lives in America, but whenever he asks his mother or grandmother about him, they always find an excuse to try to not to talk about it. Moon Shadow then tells them that he wants to go to America to see his father. When Moon Shadow arrives to America, he is introduced to all of his father's friends including his uncle. His father's nickname is Windrider. After they are introduced, Windrider takes them to the Company, which is where they live. After a few minutes of being there, the “demons” start getting drunk and break into the two front windows on the first floor. One night, Windrider
After the two family become familiar with each other the Whitlaws try to teach Moon Shadow more English, the best they could. Moon Shadow then taught them about dragons in the Tang people culture, but mainly about Windriders dream, to fly. Miss Whitlaw then feels that she wants to help accomplish Windriders dream, so she writes a letter to the Wright brothers. When the Wright brothers respond back, he becomes furious to what he has done. The next day he becomes happy again and decides to write back. As they send letters back and forth, the bigger Windrider starts to build his glider models. With one of his glider models, he takes it with them to a picnic with the Whitlaws and lets everyone fly it. After everyone ate and flew the glider, he attached a poem to it which was made by Lefty, one of his good friends, and cuts the string. It was in ordinary day at around 5:00 AM when Moon Shadow went to get a bucket of water from the outside pump when suddenly the ground started to move and shake under his feet along with everything else. After the second wave, Moon Shadow realized it was in earthquake. Miss Whitlaw and other people tried to save people from their houses of