In Ken Liu’s short story “The Paper Menagerie” Jack’s reactions to the comments of other people emphasizes the effects of racism.
, first in the story when jack and his family had moved to a new neighborhood there were those two neighbors who came to greet to greet them, but after jack’s father left the house they started to be mean towards jack by calling him a little beast and also judging his father because he married a Chinese wife. after that another boy who was American came to his house but he crushed one of jacks paper toy the tiger which represented his mothers workmanship as a Chinese and her love towards jack, it also represented
Chinese cultural art. he also insulted jack’s mother and started to bully him in school, after this jack started to avoid his mother and will not speak with her unless she speaker in English, also he tried to avoid his identity as a half Chinese. this symbolized the impact of racism can give to a person because after this jack stopped loving his mother entirely even after she passed away.

The main character in Evan Hunter’s short story entitled “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” initially believes that his identity was as a royal and he was proud of it, but later understands that being a royal only brought him bad things he decided that he wants to be Andy instead of a royal. His changing understanding is revealed through the use of __emotion_______, __his use of language________, and __his thoughts_.