This causes the reader to feel Americans are evil according to the Chinese. When Moon Shadow and his father went to live with Miss Whitlaw, Moon Shadow was extremely scared. Other examples of point of view include when Moon Shadow refers to his age in years familiar to him and in demon years and upon Moon Shadow's first visit to Miss Whitlaw's house he is offered cow milk which he refers to as cow urine. The opinion of Dragons is also an example of point of view. Throughout the novel Moon Shadow makes references to Dragons as being good and it is not until he meets Miss Whitlaw and her stained glass window that he realizes that some people think of Dragons as evil.
Authors use devices of style to make their stories more interesting to the reader.
Yep employs the styles of high fantasy and stories from another period and place to make his novel appealing to the reader. He uses high fantasy in a sense that Dragons are alive and larger than life and his story is about the struggle of a Chinese boy living in California in the early 1900s.