There are many differences and similarities within the three titles. The similarity in which I will explore is the idea of betrayal. Betrayal can take on many different faces and is sometimes hard to understand and interpret. This act of betrayal stems from the different environments in which these characters were born and raised in. In the graphic novel, American Born Chinese, there are three intertwining stories. The novel involves the Monkey King, Jin, and Wei-Chen. The Monkey King is a ruler of the monkey kingdom who wants to be a god. The gods oppose this idea so he beats up the gods, goddesses, demons, and spirits. The creator-of-all things, Tze-Yo-Tzuh, intervenes and buries the Monkey King under a pile of rocks, where he stays for five hundred years until a monk comes along and persuades him to follow him as his disciple. The second part of the novel involves Jin and his friend Wei-Chen. Jin attempts to kiss Wei-Chen’s girlfriend. Wei-Chen beats up Jin and they stop becoming friends. Jin meets an old herbalist lady and asks her to make him white with blonde hair. Finally, we meet a white guy with blonde hair named Danny, who is really Jin in disguise. Danny’s cousin Chin-Kee visits from China. Danny becomes jealous of Chin-Kee and fights him but Chin-Kee beats up Danny. Chin-Kee is really the Monkey King and Wei-Chen is his son sent to Earth to test human virtue. Danny/Jin reconciles with Wei-Chen. The novel, Yummy, is a graphic novel based on a true story that took place in Chicago in 1994. It is a story told through the eyes of a made up narrator named Roger about eleven-year-old Robert “Yummy” Sandifer who is in a local gang. One day Yummy sees a group of rival gangs and fires a gun at them. He accidentally kills a neighborhood girl, Shavon Dean. Yummy flees the scene and goes on the run and hides from the police with the help of his gang. His gang deems him a liability so they turn their backs on him and kills him. Three days later the police find Yummy dead, killed by the gang he was trying to impress. The police find and arrest his two killers. Roger is left to seek out answers to difficult questions. He wonders if Yummy was a victim or a killer. These answers are hard to come by as Yummy can be viewed as both. The novel, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, is a story about fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin who lives in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. One day Claudette refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white lady. In doing so, Claudette gets arrested and thrown into prison. Nine months later, Rosa Parks also refused to give up her seat to a white person. Rosa Parks becomes the symbol of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s even though it was Claudette who first refused to give up her seat. The story is written basically to tell Claudette’s side of the story and how the Civil Rights leaders ignored her because they felt she was not an appropriate face for the Civil Rights movement. However, her testimony in the Browder v. Gayle trial was the centerpiece of the court’s decision to declare the Montgomery bus segregation laws unconstitutional. It was not until about the mid-2000’s when Claudette was finall