In the mind

Before starting the story, it is important to understand Tan's mind. As the story progress, Tan is also constantly thinking about other thing, unrelated to Japanese. His collective thoughts, ideas, and theories of understand his life, other people and society as a whole makes him more passionate to learn Japanese and explore Japan. However, his thoughts, ideas, and theories of understand people and myself are not as simple as anyone would think. In fact, they are very difficult to comprehend, to the point that anyone could get a headache and feel hopeless. Yet, almost everything that Tan thinks about, is mostly everything that he learns in college and applied to his world and society.
There is no doubt in Tan's mind, that education is quiet possible the most dangerous thing in world, because it changes the simple understanding of the world, the governments, animals, and the people are suppose to be. Education is well thought out narrates, narrates are people's basic level of knowledge and understanding of their lives; so by means, education is the well thought out narrates that overthrows simple narrates of understanding the world, such as religion and traditions.
As the story progress, and even the during the story, Tan not only has to deal with a few problems, but he also has to deal with the dramatic changes that is occur in his realty. These problems and changes all intertwine with three basic concepts: Culture, Education, and Society. All of this thinking, problems, and changes lead Tan into a isolated mind of thinking and interacting.