In Language Arts we are beginning to dig into culture in unit 1. As we go through it we began discussing about culture and aspects about it. We went to get books; I chose a book and what it has to do is that we are assigned to read it and understand author-writing styles of different cultural ideas that maybe affected by author. So I chose a book, The Serpent’s Children by Laurence Yep, and I find it interesting to read. Authors who are influenced by culture or history can give what the writer is thinking.

 

Laurence Yep, a Chinese-American writer born in San Francisco, California. He is an author for young children more than sixty books . His parents are migrants from China who moved to California. Although born in China town San Francisco, he grew up in a black neighbourhood. During elementary to middle school, Yep went to a bilingual school and didn’t come face to face to white American culture. He discovered writing science fiction in high school and wrote his first short story, Sweetwater. He went to the University of California and got his undergraduate degree in 1970 before getting a doctorate in English from the University of New York at in 1975.

 

The influences of writing that affects stories from the author is that Yep mixes his culture and the events that happened. He published Dragonwings a book that has flying machines, the Chinese immigrant background, and the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco . Yep’s work is deeply influenced and expressed by his Chinese American background, he sees regular life closely, and his willingness to do ample research in local libraries for his works.

 

With this it shows that the author’s writing is affected which gives an impression in that culture and history can give ideas to stories where it gives the reader the correlation between story and ideas.