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Raythan Pillai English-2 10-22-08 Reflections on Online Conference with Gene Yang The online conference with Gene Yang went extremely well and it answered many of my questions that I had about American Born Chinese. Talking with Gene Yang virtually was a very good experience after reading the book because after talking with him, I was able to depict the book in a different way. For instance, after learning that he took most of the themes in the book from his own life, I realized how close this book is to Gene Yang. I believe that the most important part of the conference was when he did not have an exact answer to the question, “When Jin transformed into Danny, was he physically Danny, or just acted or thought like Danny?” Gene Yang responded to this question by saying that he does not really know and that it is the choice of the reader to choose what really happened to Jin when he transformed into Danny. I found this interesting because it shows us that authors sometimes write in a style that has multiple ways of depicting an event that takes place in the book. What I found surprising in the conference is that he has a five-year-old kid that places with transformers, something the Gene Yang did as well as a kid. Every time Gene Yang would answer a question that I had as well, I understood American Born Chinese I little more that what I understood before. In my opinion, online conference with authors is a good idea because we can learn reasons why an author decided to include something in the book. All in all, I thought the conference with Gene Yang went really well, and I was able to learn a little bit more about American Born Chinese.