In language art class we are learning about culture, and I am reading The Serpent’s Children by Laurence Yep. He is born in San Francisco’s Chinatown so his is between two culture. He has been to a Catholic high school in San Francisco where he continued his interest in chemistry and he became intrigued by writing. He writes a lot about Chinese culture and Chinese tradition. He writes fiction books for children.

Laurence Yep feels different, he said ”I was too American to fit in Chinatown, and too Chinese to fit in anywhere else.” He explain in some books how it is like to be an outsider. He expresses his feeling in The Serpent’s Children by making the main person different.

The story happened in the 19th century in a Chinese village. The villagers call Cassia and her brother ”the serpent’s children”, they mean it as an insult. But Cassia is proud of it. When famine and violence mark her family, Cassia fights for survival and for keeping her family together.