Write about three characters which deal with problem in the story.

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Three Characters of Ha Jin 's

The collection of stories in Ha Jin 's The Bridegroom feature protagonists who share one obvious trait : they are lost in their own homeland , dealing with a corruptive government and unyielding cultural habits . Some have returned to their homes after spending time abroad others have never left . Still , they all face a certain stigma related to being `outsiders , ones who challenge the deeply ingrained social norms of their peers and communities . The two ignorant peasants in A Bad

Joke , Shaona , the little girl away from her family for the first time in In the Kindergarten , and Chen Jinli , the `tainted ' woman back from New York all are struggling to assimilate into their current environments . It is their reaction to the opponents in each story that determines whether they succeed or fail - surrounded by deceitful self-serving antagonists , each reacts in his or her own way --resorting to deceit themselves-- with very different outcomes

The two peasants in A Bad Joke ' are so intertwined that , for the purpose of this , we may refer to them as one character . Simply called the tall man ' and the short man , they had been arrested for telling a joke that , as it spread , had been misconstrued from it 's innocent state to one that was politically inflammatory . The men plead innocence , claiming to be poor and ignorant of current political affairs . We know simply from their that they are poor farmers : they have swarthy...