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<\/p>\nI decided to read and analyze the short story, “Self-Made Man” by Mark Gevisser. It essentially speaks about\u00a0the life of an 18 year old named Liam Kai who was born a female in China and adopted at six months. He was originally named Lucy by his American mothers. Although he was living as a tomboy all of his life, at age thirteen he began to live as a boy. The article goes on to talk about the different approaches and views his lesbian parents had about his gender identification. One parent (Beth) was accepting while the other insisted he wear dresses because it would make him healthier and happier to accept himself as a female. At age eighteen, when he can finally have surgery legally, he decided to transition his body\u00a0from a female to a male with surgeries and hormones.<\/p>\n
I created a list of characters from the story and put them in categories\u00a0from 1-5. The higher the number, the more influence the character had on Liam’s life. This graph basically shows the similarities between the characters with equal amount of influence on Liam.<\/p>\n
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It shows that the most influence in Liam’s life was that of his mother Beth along with Andrea and Carol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"