A Novel by Fae Myenne Ng - Book Report/Review Example

Leila is reliable in that context and definitely a 'reliable narrator'. Leila narrates her life with her family and about her surroundings along with a believable description of the socio-cultural pressure of being successful within the parameters of the society with wider perspectives of American livelihood. The novel starts with the sentence mentioning that "we were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn't lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, looked at us, shook their heads.

We heard things." (Ng, 1) This can be enumerated as a definite example that depicts the socio-cultural aspects of the Chinese born population where the society is dominated by the male heirs of the family. It is not important whether the characters of three sisters or the characters encircling them ever existed but it is important if the characters in the alignment with three sisters or the characters encircling them ever existed or not. The answer is clear and affirmative as we find in many sociological scholarly works conducted on Chinese born American citizens.

We have seen in too many literal works about the immigrant Chinese workers in America and the struggle to cope up with their adopted nation. Leila narrates that failure in life comes with emotional and economical collapse. She narrates how a family finds itself living in the same area and home even after a whole life given to hard works. Here Leila narrates the details of life when dreams are found to be unfulfilled and tend to remain so and we find this experience so relevant to our society.

Leung's bones are thus confined in the economic bondage of the US as the son Leon is unable to gather enough finance to take the bones to China. The Chinatown of San Francisco visualizes the generation gaps of the Chinese American community represented in such a realistic manner by the narrator. Depiction of the greater perspective of life is thus represented in a dependable and true manner.This story depicts this history and fact in a literal mode and is extremely reliable in all respects. It is obvious that Leila in Bone: A Novel by Fae Moyenne Ng presents a reliable text and the narrator is definitely as a reliable narrator.