BEFORE READING:
Here's the last chapter and ending of the book! Oh man I'm looking forward to it! Second post of the day!
AFTER READING:
GREAT ENDING! I LOVED IT! GREAT PIECE OF LITERATURE!=] I kind of didn't want it to end. But it was lovely composted. READ IT you guys, I'm definitly sure you'll have an awesome tiem with it!
Chinese Cinderella
Adelien Yen Mah
5.Comments
1.After she was picked up to come home fro mthe hospital. Not knowing, she hasn't been home for a few years. Ye Ye was home and there he gave her a lecture to be successful and going for her great future. She then also learned some news of Aunt Baba and her sister and brothers. But no long she returned to school. At school everything was back to normal. Until one day Adeline came across a flyer that was a writing competition. With doubts in her minds that she might lose she entered anyways.
2. After writing tons of letters to her parents, asking to allow her to study in England with her three brothers, she never recieved a letter from them. She continued and wrote a story of herself in a Afrian girl point of view. She sumbit the story to writing competition worldwide address. For many months they didn't response.
3. One day she was picked up by her father, and at that moment she longer to know Ye Ye has passed away. Devastated she was in depression, with Ye Ye's support but Niang's bad comments one was making her quit school and look for a job when she was only 14.
4. Unusual another year passed and her father one again ordered her home to find out she won het competition and was invited to go to England, happy she learned that father had planned for her. She was in the newspaper and how she brought honor to China. She fianlly felt the proud of her family.
5.The last few pages was a letter from Aunt Baba, tellign her all the support and thougths of missing Adeline. Knowing that she is still is Shanghai working. but also heard news of Adeline going to england. She told a stroy of the chinese cinderella. And told Adeline that she was that chinese cinderella.
4.Questions:
1.Students were able to go to college when they are 15 years old? (WOW!)
2.So she never got to meet with Aunt Baba anymore?
3.What did Niang thought of Adeline going to England?
4.What happen to Adeline after arriving in Eng;and?
3.Vocabulary:
1.Derogatory: tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
2.Exhortation: an utterance, discourse, or address conveying urgent advice or recommendations.
3.Promiently: standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
2. Literary terms:
1.Allsuion: (She uses many references =] ) As Aunt Baba retold the story of the Chinese Cinderella through the letter to Adeline that it was her. That she became a chinese cinderella who was unwanted but in the strive to succeed in her future.
2.Denoument: Adeline is able to attend a university in England and the ending of Aunt Baba's love and support.
1.Overview:
It's pretty long overview. So After beign sick and arrived hoem again. With a good talk to Ye Ye about her future and how she should keep longing to her goals. She also heard news of the rest of the family. then after returning to school she enters a writing competition. But after awhile after aknowlegding Ye Ye's death she became more depressed. Out of the air after months later, she was ordered home by her father. A suprise in her eyes, she had won the competition and was going to England with her brother. The memior ends in a letter she recieved from Aunt Baba still longing to see her and wished her the best. As Aunt Baba told her a story of a chinese Cinderella she compared her to Adeline as a cinderella. Addressing her as "My Chinese Cinderella" . Where I thought that became the title of her memior.
THOUGHTS:
I loved this book! it was very touching at time I also feel and suffer the thigns she been through. It hurts to know that your own family doesn't want you. I can feel it in her writing, she was really describtive about it. Adeline used literary terms but most of them were never simile or metaphore. It mostly imagery and allusions refering her life to something else. The ending was fantastic. I loved how she uses Aunt Baba's letter to contrast everything together and ended with a great title for the book.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
ROAR Book 5/4/3/5/1!
Almost done you guys! :] HAH yeahs my whole book posts are due today so there is going to be a double post! I wonder how it's going to end. LOL enjoy!
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1.The setting changed to two years later arfter she enrolled in the Scared Heart school. After that she haven't seen her family as much.
2.So at school there were times of visiting hours and everyday she was alone and no one would coem to visit her. And on Sundays the students gets eggs from their family. One day her number was called and she recieved an egg. Afraid that it wasn't her she didn't dare to eat it. And denied it was hers.
2.But the fact the egg was from her friend who didn't like eggs that she recieved all the time. SO careful she sneaked in the kitchen and changed her number to Adeline's number. She noticed how Adeline never gets an egg. Soon after Adeline found out and felt even more sorry for herself.
3.There was another student name Monica who was on of the top student and always agaisnt Adeline since Adeline never had anyone to visit her or to give her any thing on visiting hours. Also because Adeline skipped a grade and was one of the top student as well.
4.No longer after that she became instant friends with the girls that gave her the eggs together they promise to get away and travel the world together. Their name was Rachel and Mary.
5. Adeline started to feel really sick so she had to be hospitalized and only Mary visited her every single day.
4.Questions:
1.Even her family does not bother to come visit her when she is sick in the hospital?
2.Does she tell Mary and Rachel about her family?
3.What ever happened to Wu chun-mei? (I miss her. ) And the rest of her siblings?
4.How did the kids at school response to Adeline absence?
3.Vocabulary:
1.galvanism: Electricity. electricity, esp. as produced by chemical action.
2.respite: a delay or postponement
3.scrutinized: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
2.Literary Terms:
1.Monologue: At the end of chapter 17, where she was really happy and told herself the postives in the world. The possiblities she could gain, all of this to cheer her up when no one was at her side.
2.Allusion: She compared a quote she read from King Lear book as she read she thought of Ye Ye and felt really awful she started to shed tears.
1.Overview:
In this Section it was about 2 years after she stayed at Scared Heart school and how alone she is. But she was still able to kept some friends. All the Sundays and visiting hourse would make her feel as lonely as before and she never got used to it. Even noticed by her friends, they pitied her and one day a girl gave her an egg. After they developed a strong relationship. However, Adeline became sick and was hospitalized.
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1.The setting changed to two years later arfter she enrolled in the Scared Heart school. After that she haven't seen her family as much.
2.So at school there were times of visiting hours and everyday she was alone and no one would coem to visit her. And on Sundays the students gets eggs from their family. One day her number was called and she recieved an egg. Afraid that it wasn't her she didn't dare to eat it. And denied it was hers.
2.But the fact the egg was from her friend who didn't like eggs that she recieved all the time. SO careful she sneaked in the kitchen and changed her number to Adeline's number. She noticed how Adeline never gets an egg. Soon after Adeline found out and felt even more sorry for herself.
3.There was another student name Monica who was on of the top student and always agaisnt Adeline since Adeline never had anyone to visit her or to give her any thing on visiting hours. Also because Adeline skipped a grade and was one of the top student as well.
4.No longer after that she became instant friends with the girls that gave her the eggs together they promise to get away and travel the world together. Their name was Rachel and Mary.
5. Adeline started to feel really sick so she had to be hospitalized and only Mary visited her every single day.
4.Questions:
1.Even her family does not bother to come visit her when she is sick in the hospital?
2.Does she tell Mary and Rachel about her family?
3.What ever happened to Wu chun-mei? (I miss her. ) And the rest of her siblings?
4.How did the kids at school response to Adeline absence?
3.Vocabulary:
1.galvanism: Electricity. electricity, esp. as produced by chemical action.
2.respite: a delay or postponement
3.scrutinized: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
2.Literary Terms:
1.Monologue: At the end of chapter 17, where she was really happy and told herself the postives in the world. The possiblities she could gain, all of this to cheer her up when no one was at her side.
2.Allusion: She compared a quote she read from King Lear book as she read she thought of Ye Ye and felt really awful she started to shed tears.
1.Overview:
In this Section it was about 2 years after she stayed at Scared Heart school and how alone she is. But she was still able to kept some friends. All the Sundays and visiting hourse would make her feel as lonely as before and she never got used to it. Even noticed by her friends, they pitied her and one day a girl gave her an egg. After they developed a strong relationship. However, Adeline became sick and was hospitalized.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
5/4/3/2/1 ROAR BOOK!
Alright, we're on chapter 16! Lol I'm so glad i don't have much homework, that's why I'm posting recently now;]. &I hope to get this done so I can continue watching my movie. Everything is going as planned, styaing home eat, sleep and watching a few dramas and movies!
Another 5/4/3/2/1 for your weekend!
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah-
5.Comments:
1.Well so far, they are on their way to board on a ship and head to Hong Kong. Aunt Reine and her family was really nice to Adelien and treated her equal to everyone. Adeine was touched when she was treated as someone that is wanted. Thinking that no longer she'll meet Niang's eyes again she became unsure. And before she knows it Niang was right in front of her.
2. When they arrived in Hong Kong, no one greeted Adeline but Ye Ye. Everyone else was focused on Aunt Reine and her family. And in a glance of Ye Ye, Ye Ye had given up, he was no longer the head of the family.
3. Victor was Aunt Reine son, he was the nicest person to Adeline, when everyone left on a trip to eat in a restaurant while Adeline has to stay home. He decided to stay home with her.
4. After Aunt Reine and her fmaily left, Adeline was inrolled into a school called Scared Heart School and Orphanage. There she knew that Niang really wanted her to leave.
5. But lucky, Adeline was going to school now and won't see Niang as much. She felt happy and excited to get away, since father doesn't even notice her and no one really wanted her.
4.Questions:
1.Does Niang know that Aunt Reine and her family is really close to Adelien and that shetook out of Tianjin beforehand?
2.Why did Ye Ye lose? And what happened to him while Adeline was gone?
3. Where is the rest of the family? And aunt Baba? Is Big sister ever going to return anymore?
4.What is going to happen next? What will happen to Adeline?
3.Vocabulary:
1.Percariously : dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
2.Forlornly: desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
3.Anguish: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief.
2.Literary Terms:
1.Allusion: She made a referance about chinese's history and it's literature and writing. Almost 2 pages of explaination of words and how it is so difficult.
2.Dialogue: When Adeline is having a conversation with Ye Ye. Most of teh entire book is in 1st POV and she talkignt o many people.
1.Overview:
In chapter 16&17, it's about meeting back with Adeline's family. She then experience more time with Ye Ye and Aunt Reine kids. After Autn Reine and her family left, Adeline was brought to the boarding school and orphanage.
Another 5/4/3/2/1 for your weekend!
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah-
5.Comments:
1.Well so far, they are on their way to board on a ship and head to Hong Kong. Aunt Reine and her family was really nice to Adelien and treated her equal to everyone. Adeine was touched when she was treated as someone that is wanted. Thinking that no longer she'll meet Niang's eyes again she became unsure. And before she knows it Niang was right in front of her.
2. When they arrived in Hong Kong, no one greeted Adeline but Ye Ye. Everyone else was focused on Aunt Reine and her family. And in a glance of Ye Ye, Ye Ye had given up, he was no longer the head of the family.
3. Victor was Aunt Reine son, he was the nicest person to Adeline, when everyone left on a trip to eat in a restaurant while Adeline has to stay home. He decided to stay home with her.
4. After Aunt Reine and her fmaily left, Adeline was inrolled into a school called Scared Heart School and Orphanage. There she knew that Niang really wanted her to leave.
5. But lucky, Adeline was going to school now and won't see Niang as much. She felt happy and excited to get away, since father doesn't even notice her and no one really wanted her.
4.Questions:
1.Does Niang know that Aunt Reine and her family is really close to Adelien and that shetook out of Tianjin beforehand?
2.Why did Ye Ye lose? And what happened to him while Adeline was gone?
3. Where is the rest of the family? And aunt Baba? Is Big sister ever going to return anymore?
4.What is going to happen next? What will happen to Adeline?
3.Vocabulary:
1.Percariously : dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
2.Forlornly: desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
3.Anguish: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief.
2.Literary Terms:
1.Allusion: She made a referance about chinese's history and it's literature and writing. Almost 2 pages of explaination of words and how it is so difficult.
2.Dialogue: When Adeline is having a conversation with Ye Ye. Most of teh entire book is in 1st POV and she talkignt o many people.
1.Overview:
In chapter 16&17, it's about meeting back with Adeline's family. She then experience more time with Ye Ye and Aunt Reine kids. After Autn Reine and her family left, Adeline was brought to the boarding school and orphanage.
Friday, October 24, 2008
ROAR Book 5/4/3/5/1!
LOl I need to finish this up soon, lol I need about 4 more post guys and the book will be finish! OH yeah! it's Friday, man I'm glad. I can finally sleep and wake up as late as i want and eat as much as I can and celebrate the weekend by myself with dramas and food ;]
Anyways another 5/4/3/2/1!
CHINESE CINDERELLA
ADELINE YEN MAH
5.Comments
1)So this is really cruel. During the period when the Communist was taking over, Niang and their father decided to bring her back to Tianjin in a boarding school ALL BY HERSELF! What are they thinking?! The communist was coming there i na few months and arresting all those people but here they are leaving her there alone....
2)What kind of father is Adeline's father? He doesn't know her name, or birthday or how old she is. To him she like a stranger. When he decided to give his birthday to her, she was so happy to know her own birthday now since no one every told her and she was excited as well since it'll be her father's birtday too on November 30.
3)She stayed at the boarding school for a few months by herself. She had written letters to her family and recieved none back. She had to speak english and french in that school. Chinese wasn't allowed and in her class there was only a few girls. It was the same school she went in elementry school.
4) As days pass, more girls had left. In the middle of December, she was the only student left. Now she was really alone and there wasn't anything to do. All she wished was to be with her Aunt Baba and live peacefully. She was often sad and think of her family. In some days the nuns will fuss about her and make her feel cared.
5) One day when she was playing, her aunt came to pick her up. Her aunt was Niang's older sister, and without Niang's knowing her aunt said she'll bring Adeline to Hong Kong and reunite back to her father and Niang. But Aunt Baba wouldn't be there, she'll be still in Shanghai.
4.Questions:
1)What ikind of parents are they? Leavign her like that to risk herself.....(tehy don't deserve to be parents at all.)
2) Why does Aunt Baba want to stay in Shanghai? Because the communist is matching there soon too.
3) Does Aunt Reine knows how awful Niang treats her? And where did she hear from to get Adeline?
4) Why were the nuns still there? Aren't they afraid as well?
3.Vocabulary:
1.fiedfdom: Informal. anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group.
2.intermingled: to mingle, one with another; intermix.
3.tranquillity : quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity.
2.Literary Terms:
1)Illusion: When she made a reference about the book of Grimm's book of fairy tale and poem by Clement Clarke Moore.
2.Imagery: The image when the nus gave her all these food and how she desribed them like but the nuns forgot to get her a spoon or a fork. (it's a funny image)
1.Overview:
The 15th chapter was basically about how Father and Niang totally abandon Adeline in a boarding school in Tianjin all by herself for several months. When Tianjin was in contro lof the communist and when all the students and people fleed to the south. She was the only student left. Until one day one of her unexpected aunts came and picked her up and told her that they were going to Hong Kong. There she's fianlly rescued and going along.
Anyways another 5/4/3/2/1!
CHINESE CINDERELLA
ADELINE YEN MAH
5.Comments
1)So this is really cruel. During the period when the Communist was taking over, Niang and their father decided to bring her back to Tianjin in a boarding school ALL BY HERSELF! What are they thinking?! The communist was coming there i na few months and arresting all those people but here they are leaving her there alone....
2)What kind of father is Adeline's father? He doesn't know her name, or birthday or how old she is. To him she like a stranger. When he decided to give his birthday to her, she was so happy to know her own birthday now since no one every told her and she was excited as well since it'll be her father's birtday too on November 30.
3)She stayed at the boarding school for a few months by herself. She had written letters to her family and recieved none back. She had to speak english and french in that school. Chinese wasn't allowed and in her class there was only a few girls. It was the same school she went in elementry school.
4) As days pass, more girls had left. In the middle of December, she was the only student left. Now she was really alone and there wasn't anything to do. All she wished was to be with her Aunt Baba and live peacefully. She was often sad and think of her family. In some days the nuns will fuss about her and make her feel cared.
5) One day when she was playing, her aunt came to pick her up. Her aunt was Niang's older sister, and without Niang's knowing her aunt said she'll bring Adeline to Hong Kong and reunite back to her father and Niang. But Aunt Baba wouldn't be there, she'll be still in Shanghai.
4.Questions:
1)What ikind of parents are they? Leavign her like that to risk herself.....(tehy don't deserve to be parents at all.)
2) Why does Aunt Baba want to stay in Shanghai? Because the communist is matching there soon too.
3) Does Aunt Reine knows how awful Niang treats her? And where did she hear from to get Adeline?
4) Why were the nuns still there? Aren't they afraid as well?
3.Vocabulary:
1.fiedfdom: Informal. anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group.
2.intermingled: to mingle, one with another; intermix.
3.tranquillity : quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity.
2.Literary Terms:
1)Illusion: When she made a reference about the book of Grimm's book of fairy tale and poem by Clement Clarke Moore.
2.Imagery: The image when the nus gave her all these food and how she desribed them like but the nuns forgot to get her a spoon or a fork. (it's a funny image)
1.Overview:
The 15th chapter was basically about how Father and Niang totally abandon Adeline in a boarding school in Tianjin all by herself for several months. When Tianjin was in contro lof the communist and when all the students and people fleed to the south. She was the only student left. Until one day one of her unexpected aunts came and picked her up and told her that they were going to Hong Kong. There she's fianlly rescued and going along.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
5/4/3/2/1 ROAR BOOK!
HAHHA yeahs im' back at it! WHOAA! guess what? Today at work, there was a presentation about birds and wow some staffs brought in Real Live Birds, I get to see the American something {hehe sorry. forgot the name}and 2 other birds but basiclly they're owls! SO amazing!:] Hahaha just a little news for everyone. SO, let get back to CHINESE CINDERELLA. How you guys think of it so far? ;]
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1. The next day, Wu Chun-Mei asked her why didn't she come back to the party like she promised. Adeline is feeling shame and couldn't tell her what had happen......I feel really pity for her because she can't even tell her friends the harsh treatment at home.
2. No sooner, their school was having a class president election and together Wu Chun-Mei was helping Adeline winning the elction for her.
3. Adeline won the election and was super shocked when Wu Chun-Mei and her friends showed up at her house unexpectedly to suprise her. That's when things goes terribly wrong, Niang found out and slapped her a few times. And as Adeline told her friends to leave as she is crying. Wu Chun-Mei figured it out.....I'm actually really glad Wu Chun-Mei found out because then she would know why Adeline is just so quiet and different from eveyone else.
4. After Adeline's father and Niang ordered maybe she should leave and go to a orphanage or to just send her away. Adeline in tears and fearing the seperation of Autn Baba and her. They said it was all Aunt Baba's fault to influence her in such bad ways.
5. After the next day at school, she was still considered as the persident, she felt happiness in her and in way she wished she would always stay in school. But when she got home, her clothes was packed and immeditely she found out she going back to Tianjin with Niang and her father.
4.Questions:
1.Why couldn't they understand that it was Aunt Baba's fault? Is it like their culture to not trust the girls instead of boys? Why didn't Ye Ye do anything to stop this?
2. Why are they going back to Tianjin? Why not someplace else? and Who is going with them?
3. What will happen to Adeline? Will she really have to leave the house?
4. What will happen to the rest of the family? Like aunt Baba and Ye Ye?
3. Vocabulary:
1.brusquely: abrupt in manner; blunt; rough
2.rummaged: to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), esp. by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
3.nonchalance : the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness.
2. Literary Terms:
1.Expostion: When Adeline's friends appeared out of nowhere in front of her house. The starting of the climax where she gets in trouble.
2.Hyperbole: When Niang said that Adeline was "NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!" ( I catch up that Niang always uses these hyperboles agaisnt Adeline.)
1. OverView:
SO this section of the memoir, is that Adeline was running for President in school and apperently she won. Her friends sneaked up at her doorsteps and suprise her. This was an outrage to Niang! She was very mad and she convinced Adeline's father to her side. She persuade him that Aunt Baba is teh bad influence to Adeline. In the end she was beaten and to go tell ehr friends to leave. Her friends saw her in pain yet they know Adeline is still one of their best friends. The next day Adeline finds out Niang and father decied that they move back to Tianjin. Adeline was so frustrated about having to say goodbye to her Aunt Baba.... (to be continue =)
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1. The next day, Wu Chun-Mei asked her why didn't she come back to the party like she promised. Adeline is feeling shame and couldn't tell her what had happen......I feel really pity for her because she can't even tell her friends the harsh treatment at home.
2. No sooner, their school was having a class president election and together Wu Chun-Mei was helping Adeline winning the elction for her.
3. Adeline won the election and was super shocked when Wu Chun-Mei and her friends showed up at her house unexpectedly to suprise her. That's when things goes terribly wrong, Niang found out and slapped her a few times. And as Adeline told her friends to leave as she is crying. Wu Chun-Mei figured it out.....I'm actually really glad Wu Chun-Mei found out because then she would know why Adeline is just so quiet and different from eveyone else.
4. After Adeline's father and Niang ordered maybe she should leave and go to a orphanage or to just send her away. Adeline in tears and fearing the seperation of Autn Baba and her. They said it was all Aunt Baba's fault to influence her in such bad ways.
5. After the next day at school, she was still considered as the persident, she felt happiness in her and in way she wished she would always stay in school. But when she got home, her clothes was packed and immeditely she found out she going back to Tianjin with Niang and her father.
4.Questions:
1.Why couldn't they understand that it was Aunt Baba's fault? Is it like their culture to not trust the girls instead of boys? Why didn't Ye Ye do anything to stop this?
2. Why are they going back to Tianjin? Why not someplace else? and Who is going with them?
3. What will happen to Adeline? Will she really have to leave the house?
4. What will happen to the rest of the family? Like aunt Baba and Ye Ye?
3. Vocabulary:
1.brusquely: abrupt in manner; blunt; rough
2.rummaged: to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), esp. by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
3.nonchalance : the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness.
2. Literary Terms:
1.Expostion: When Adeline's friends appeared out of nowhere in front of her house. The starting of the climax where she gets in trouble.
2.Hyperbole: When Niang said that Adeline was "NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!" ( I catch up that Niang always uses these hyperboles agaisnt Adeline.)
1. OverView:
SO this section of the memoir, is that Adeline was running for President in school and apperently she won. Her friends sneaked up at her doorsteps and suprise her. This was an outrage to Niang! She was very mad and she convinced Adeline's father to her side. She persuade him that Aunt Baba is teh bad influence to Adeline. In the end she was beaten and to go tell ehr friends to leave. Her friends saw her in pain yet they know Adeline is still one of their best friends. The next day Adeline finds out Niang and father decied that they move back to Tianjin. Adeline was so frustrated about having to say goodbye to her Aunt Baba.... (to be continue =)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
ROAR Book 5/4/3/5/1!
Here's another 5/4/3/2/1 for everyone! MUSICCC!! =D Enjoy.. BTW sorry for late posting guys, I'm pretty busy with homework and chorse! xD Anyhow There you go!
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments
1. It was so mean to rist Adeline's PLT(the duck she loved very much) just to see if Jackie( the dog) is well trained. As a result PLT died after beign attacked from Jackie. NO ONE seems to care that PLT was actaully Adeline's bets friend at home. SHe was hurted and very sad over the duck's death.
2. I am very frustrated with Niang and I wished she never appeared because she is the worst person ever! Just because Adeline wanted to go to a birthday party for once in her life, she get caught be adcident when Wu Mei called her to invite her back to the party on a holiday when everyone thought it was a school day. And then Niang insulted Adeline's mother and didn't give Adeline any food until her father come home and when he does come home, she gets wips because Niang lied and told her father lies. I seriously didlike Niang.
3. Adeline's childhood is very unforunate, she didn't get to do teh thigns she deserved. She didn't get to parcipate in any fun family out goings or friends.
4. Big sister was married teh same way Niang was married, Adeline's big sister was only 17 and was marrying to a guy she doesn't know. She is really happy too, and there they went on tehir honey moon. But before she left her big sister lied about a gift from aunt baba and manipulated her feelings. Adeline was very hurt for aunt baba.
5. Her father is not smart either, I keep thinking why does he not stand on his daughter's side. because everything that Adeline went through was so harsh and her even her closest belongings and loved one left her slowly. The duck, and aunt Baba becasue father ordered aunt baba to be seperated since he thought that she was a bad influence.
4.Questions:
1. Why can't Adeline go to the birthday party? What was so bad about goignt o a birthday party?
2. Why isn't Ye Ye or anyone helping Adeline at all when she was beaten by her father or when they caused her duck to die?
3. Why is third brother being nice to her again after manipulated her feelings?
4. Was Big sister lying when she told Adeline she was the best sister in the whole wide world? (I think so.)
3. Vocabulary:
Revulsion: a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike.
palpable: readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.
irrevocably: not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable
2.Literary Terms:
Imagery: The describing of the jaws and features of Jackie and what he did to the poor duckling.
Denoument: The ending of this section was her beign beat by her father and that now her Aunt Baba has to leave her, now Adeline is really alone.
1.Overview:
1. During this section of teh book, Adeline is facing many difficulties including being beaten and hurt beign scold at and everything. She wasn't able to attend any fun things instead when she tries to sneak she ends up beign hurt anyways. Her ducklign was killed by the house dog when the stupid father and Niang wanted to see if the dog was smart enough. (ARGH! this is just really mean..WOW i mean....isn't there anotehr way?!?) Anyways and then she was just alone, crying.
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments
1. It was so mean to rist Adeline's PLT(the duck she loved very much) just to see if Jackie( the dog) is well trained. As a result PLT died after beign attacked from Jackie. NO ONE seems to care that PLT was actaully Adeline's bets friend at home. SHe was hurted and very sad over the duck's death.
2. I am very frustrated with Niang and I wished she never appeared because she is the worst person ever! Just because Adeline wanted to go to a birthday party for once in her life, she get caught be adcident when Wu Mei called her to invite her back to the party on a holiday when everyone thought it was a school day. And then Niang insulted Adeline's mother and didn't give Adeline any food until her father come home and when he does come home, she gets wips because Niang lied and told her father lies. I seriously didlike Niang.
3. Adeline's childhood is very unforunate, she didn't get to do teh thigns she deserved. She didn't get to parcipate in any fun family out goings or friends.
4. Big sister was married teh same way Niang was married, Adeline's big sister was only 17 and was marrying to a guy she doesn't know. She is really happy too, and there they went on tehir honey moon. But before she left her big sister lied about a gift from aunt baba and manipulated her feelings. Adeline was very hurt for aunt baba.
5. Her father is not smart either, I keep thinking why does he not stand on his daughter's side. because everything that Adeline went through was so harsh and her even her closest belongings and loved one left her slowly. The duck, and aunt Baba becasue father ordered aunt baba to be seperated since he thought that she was a bad influence.
4.Questions:
1. Why can't Adeline go to the birthday party? What was so bad about goignt o a birthday party?
2. Why isn't Ye Ye or anyone helping Adeline at all when she was beaten by her father or when they caused her duck to die?
3. Why is third brother being nice to her again after manipulated her feelings?
4. Was Big sister lying when she told Adeline she was the best sister in the whole wide world? (I think so.)
3. Vocabulary:
Revulsion: a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike.
palpable: readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.
irrevocably: not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable
2.Literary Terms:
Imagery: The describing of the jaws and features of Jackie and what he did to the poor duckling.
Denoument: The ending of this section was her beign beat by her father and that now her Aunt Baba has to leave her, now Adeline is really alone.
1.Overview:
1. During this section of teh book, Adeline is facing many difficulties including being beaten and hurt beign scold at and everything. She wasn't able to attend any fun things instead when she tries to sneak she ends up beign hurt anyways. Her ducklign was killed by the house dog when the stupid father and Niang wanted to see if the dog was smart enough. (ARGH! this is just really mean..WOW i mean....isn't there anotehr way?!?) Anyways and then she was just alone, crying.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
5/4/3/2/1 ROAR BOOK!
HAHAH how is it going? ;] haha sorry for late posting.. I'm currently taken over by music ( hmmm...I'm gonna try to figure out how I'm gonna add music on here!)! lol anyhow here's another 5/4/3/2/1 for the day! &yeah the story is attracting my mind into too :D
CHINESE CINDERELLA
-Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1. Adeline's big brother is tired and stuffed about havign to follow orders so when Niang and their father and Niang's children,oh and Big sister, went on vacation without the rest of the family, Big brother took charge and ordered and did stuff he wasn't suppose to do.
2. Ye Ye and the rest of his grandchildren seem to get closer now as Adeline explained. Together they had pinics and played around the park. And then the sibling also got closer together like Thrid brother and Adeline.
3. Adeline started to like playing with her Thrid brotehr and she trusted him until one day with the rest of her brothers played a mean trick on her and without stoping Adeline, Thrid brother ingored the fact that she trusted him. In the end she didn't response to any of her brothers anymore.
4. After Niang and her children and her father came back home, tehir neighbor came over and gave them a present. Each one of the sibling gets a duckling, and Adeline was the last to pick her duckling, she recieved a weak small duckling but she treasured it very much. it was called her Precuious Little Treasure.(PLT)
5. Once when Adeline tried to feed her duckling with a worm, her big brother started to hit her because she favored her own duck over his. Then she was bruised and hurt but when her PLT was hungry she hurried off to find a worm but the famiyl dog bite her and she was even more injured.
4.Questions:
1. Why doesn't Adeline tell her father or Ye Ye that she is always being bullied?!
2. Where does she keep her duckling? And how did Niang response to the ducks?
3. Why did Thrid brother ingored her like that? He said they were close and that the two older broterh always scold and play tricks on him, yet he doesn't know how it feels to Adeline?
4. Where is Aunt Baba when everything was happening?
3. Vocabulary:
1. meticulously: taking or showing extreme care about minute details;
2. banister: a baluster, Such a handrail together with its supporting structures.
3. mercurochome: A trademark used for a solution of merbromin.
2.Literary Terms:
1. Imagery: The describition Jackie's (the dog) teeth drowned into Adeline's wrist. When she was looking for worms near his settling.
2. Onomatopoeia: When Adeline and Wu chun-mei was imitating how her duck would sound..."QUACK."
1.Overview:
1.During this section of the memoir, she was explainging the time when their father and Niang wasn't there, and how she turn away from the rest of her siblings. Then whenshe recieved a duck and she adored everything about it, she tresured it. And the experience she had tryign to find food for her duckling. =]
CHINESE CINDERELLA
-Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1. Adeline's big brother is tired and stuffed about havign to follow orders so when Niang and their father and Niang's children,oh and Big sister, went on vacation without the rest of the family, Big brother took charge and ordered and did stuff he wasn't suppose to do.
2. Ye Ye and the rest of his grandchildren seem to get closer now as Adeline explained. Together they had pinics and played around the park. And then the sibling also got closer together like Thrid brother and Adeline.
3. Adeline started to like playing with her Thrid brotehr and she trusted him until one day with the rest of her brothers played a mean trick on her and without stoping Adeline, Thrid brother ingored the fact that she trusted him. In the end she didn't response to any of her brothers anymore.
4. After Niang and her children and her father came back home, tehir neighbor came over and gave them a present. Each one of the sibling gets a duckling, and Adeline was the last to pick her duckling, she recieved a weak small duckling but she treasured it very much. it was called her Precuious Little Treasure.(PLT)
5. Once when Adeline tried to feed her duckling with a worm, her big brother started to hit her because she favored her own duck over his. Then she was bruised and hurt but when her PLT was hungry she hurried off to find a worm but the famiyl dog bite her and she was even more injured.
4.Questions:
1. Why doesn't Adeline tell her father or Ye Ye that she is always being bullied?!
2. Where does she keep her duckling? And how did Niang response to the ducks?
3. Why did Thrid brother ingored her like that? He said they were close and that the two older broterh always scold and play tricks on him, yet he doesn't know how it feels to Adeline?
4. Where is Aunt Baba when everything was happening?
3. Vocabulary:
1. meticulously: taking or showing extreme care about minute details;
2. banister: a baluster, Such a handrail together with its supporting structures.
3. mercurochome: A trademark used for a solution of merbromin.
2.Literary Terms:
1. Imagery: The describition Jackie's (the dog) teeth drowned into Adeline's wrist. When she was looking for worms near his settling.
2. Onomatopoeia: When Adeline and Wu chun-mei was imitating how her duck would sound..."QUACK."
1.Overview:
1.During this section of the memoir, she was explainging the time when their father and Niang wasn't there, and how she turn away from the rest of her siblings. Then whenshe recieved a duck and she adored everything about it, she tresured it. And the experience she had tryign to find food for her duckling. =]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
ROAR Book 5/4/3/5/1!
Helloo everyone! Haha... I hope you guys are having a good time reading my post and all. Lol so how was everyone's weekend? Mine was AWESOME just because it was my birthday on COLUMBUS DAY.(hehe no school!=]) . Anyhow let's get this 5/4/3/2/1 started!
Chinese Cinderella
-Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1) It was finally New Years and yet the 5 biological children recieved the traditonal clothing while Niang's daughter and son recieved overseas outfits from Fance. That made the 5 children really unsettled.
2)Adeline loved writing in school, whenever she had time she writes and she was good at it. She always get compliments on them. No wonder she became an author when she grew up.
3)Adeline also met a new friend named, Wu chun-mei. She was a rich only child and she was oen of the nice girls that aknowledge Adeline.
4) When the 5 siblings couldn't encounter Niang's demands anymore they planned to set a trap for their father to help them out by writing anoymous letters to him. Instead Fourth brother ruined the plan and ad result Adeline's oldest sister became a stuc kup to Niang so taht she wouldn't get introuble. That left the other four alone and yet still persisted.
5) When the Americans dropped a atomic bomb in Japan taht helped the chinese to reenforce together and the Americans were like heroes to the chineses. Everywhere at Adeline's time, all the Americans were looked up to and even teh stars and celebrity from oversea became popular in China.
4.Questions:
1)Why didn't Adeline tell her friends what is really going on in her family?
2)Isn't there anymore relatives that Adeline can count on besides her family?
3)What happened to Naing's family?
4)Are the four siblings still going to plan that trap even if oldest sister is on the "evil" side?
3.vocabualry
1)alacrity: cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
2)precedence: act or fact of preceding
3)immobility: the quality or condition of being immobile or irremovable
2.Literary Terms:
1)Allusion: When Adeleine made an reference of herself as Mulan the heroin.
2)Metaphor: As her brother said when they thought that Oldest sister will talk behide their backs by adding more "salt and oil and soy sauce" to what is really the truth.
1.Overview:
1) In this 20 pages of the book, it revolves around how Adeline went to school and met a few new friends by creating realistic stories through her writing. She met some of the best friends yet she doesn't seem to tell them anything about herself or her family. Also later on they carried a plan to make Niang the bad guy, but it end up failing because of fourth brother. After Oldest sister left the group and joing Niang. Beyond there is the setting of the Americans helping the Chinese in the WWII and how the stars from America seem to shine in China.
Chinese Cinderella
-Adeline Yen Mah
5.Comments:
1) It was finally New Years and yet the 5 biological children recieved the traditonal clothing while Niang's daughter and son recieved overseas outfits from Fance. That made the 5 children really unsettled.
2)Adeline loved writing in school, whenever she had time she writes and she was good at it. She always get compliments on them. No wonder she became an author when she grew up.
3)Adeline also met a new friend named, Wu chun-mei. She was a rich only child and she was oen of the nice girls that aknowledge Adeline.
4) When the 5 siblings couldn't encounter Niang's demands anymore they planned to set a trap for their father to help them out by writing anoymous letters to him. Instead Fourth brother ruined the plan and ad result Adeline's oldest sister became a stuc kup to Niang so taht she wouldn't get introuble. That left the other four alone and yet still persisted.
5) When the Americans dropped a atomic bomb in Japan taht helped the chinese to reenforce together and the Americans were like heroes to the chineses. Everywhere at Adeline's time, all the Americans were looked up to and even teh stars and celebrity from oversea became popular in China.
4.Questions:
1)Why didn't Adeline tell her friends what is really going on in her family?
2)Isn't there anymore relatives that Adeline can count on besides her family?
3)What happened to Naing's family?
4)Are the four siblings still going to plan that trap even if oldest sister is on the "evil" side?
3.vocabualry
1)alacrity: cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
2)precedence: act or fact of preceding
3)immobility: the quality or condition of being immobile or irremovable
2.Literary Terms:
1)Allusion: When Adeleine made an reference of herself as Mulan the heroin.
2)Metaphor: As her brother said when they thought that Oldest sister will talk behide their backs by adding more "salt and oil and soy sauce" to what is really the truth.
1.Overview:
1) In this 20 pages of the book, it revolves around how Adeline went to school and met a few new friends by creating realistic stories through her writing. She met some of the best friends yet she doesn't seem to tell them anything about herself or her family. Also later on they carried a plan to make Niang the bad guy, but it end up failing because of fourth brother. After Oldest sister left the group and joing Niang. Beyond there is the setting of the Americans helping the Chinese in the WWII and how the stars from America seem to shine in China.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
5/4/3/2/1 ROAR BOOK!
LOL, Mimikaa here! Here's another 5/4/3/2/1! Oh yeahs today was great i loads of fun! & YEAH tomarrow is my 15th birthday! I'm SUPER SUPER happy about it. Enjoy your columbus day off!! and i'll enjoy mine! ;)
Chinese Cinderella
- Adeline Yen Mah
5. comments:
1. Niang their father and one of Niang's child left for one year until one day tehir father came and picked them up. From there they moved to Shanghai. This is the start where Niang starts to control everyone.
2. On her first day of school, she was late because she was left alone and no one took her to school. Then after school no one bothered to pick her up until she was able to call her father. Though from her prospective he didn't seem to care much.....
3. When Niang was slapping her daughter since her daughter didn't reconize her. Because she left for a long time. Only Adeline stood up to Niang because she couldn't take it anymore. That made Niang mad. I feel like Niang is very unreasonable and she is not suited as a mother at all.
4. When Niang finally took everyone's money and fare out. Everyone was mad and was going to go agaisnt her but they couldn't walkign to school every morning so they gave in except Adeline. She was determine to go agaisnt Niang. She has a very pursued personality.
5. Everything changed after Nai Nai died, it left the family in confusion and no one was able to do anything except Naing.
4.Question:
1. Why couldn't Ye Ye (Grandfather in chinese) do anything about the family orders and money managment? Isn't Ye Ye suppose to have the highest status?
2. Why couldn't her siblings forgive her already? It really wasn't her fault.
3. What happened to Niang's faimly?
4. How was school for Adeline? Was it still great like it was in Tianjin?
3.vocabulary:
1. Communal :engaged in by or involving two or more communities
2.disperse:to drive or send off in various directions; scatter
3.cloying:causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess
2.Literary terms:
1.Imagery: When the furious Niang was staring and the image of her eyes pointed towards Adeline.
2.Hyperbole: When Niang said "I shall never forgive you! Never! Never! Never! You better watch out from now on! You will pay for your arrogance!" pg 35 Yen Mah.
1.Overview:
1. Over this section of the novel, Adeline and her family finally moved to Shanghai to avoid all the japanese soliders trying to take over their bussiness. After then Niang is scolding and repeatedly trying to take over the family. At times there were problems and Adeline is the one who always get lecture or left alone.
Chinese Cinderella
- Adeline Yen Mah
5. comments:
1. Niang their father and one of Niang's child left for one year until one day tehir father came and picked them up. From there they moved to Shanghai. This is the start where Niang starts to control everyone.
2. On her first day of school, she was late because she was left alone and no one took her to school. Then after school no one bothered to pick her up until she was able to call her father. Though from her prospective he didn't seem to care much.....
3. When Niang was slapping her daughter since her daughter didn't reconize her. Because she left for a long time. Only Adeline stood up to Niang because she couldn't take it anymore. That made Niang mad. I feel like Niang is very unreasonable and she is not suited as a mother at all.
4. When Niang finally took everyone's money and fare out. Everyone was mad and was going to go agaisnt her but they couldn't walkign to school every morning so they gave in except Adeline. She was determine to go agaisnt Niang. She has a very pursued personality.
5. Everything changed after Nai Nai died, it left the family in confusion and no one was able to do anything except Naing.
4.Question:
1. Why couldn't Ye Ye (Grandfather in chinese) do anything about the family orders and money managment? Isn't Ye Ye suppose to have the highest status?
2. Why couldn't her siblings forgive her already? It really wasn't her fault.
3. What happened to Niang's faimly?
4. How was school for Adeline? Was it still great like it was in Tianjin?
3.vocabulary:
1. Communal :engaged in by or involving two or more communities
2.disperse:to drive or send off in various directions; scatter
3.cloying:causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess
2.Literary terms:
1.Imagery: When the furious Niang was staring and the image of her eyes pointed towards Adeline.
2.Hyperbole: When Niang said "I shall never forgive you! Never! Never! Never! You better watch out from now on! You will pay for your arrogance!" pg 35 Yen Mah.
1.Overview:
1. Over this section of the novel, Adeline and her family finally moved to Shanghai to avoid all the japanese soliders trying to take over their bussiness. After then Niang is scolding and repeatedly trying to take over the family. At times there were problems and Adeline is the one who always get lecture or left alone.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
ROAR Book 5/4/3/5/1!
HAH hey eveyone! 3 days weekend! YAY! hope everyone enjoys it! Once again here's an update and a 5/4/3/2/1. A 5/4/3/2/1 is a skill my class use to follow up on what you're reading and yeahs it's my homework over the weekend so hope it helps you out some questions you had in mind.
CHINESE CINDERELLA.
-Adeline Yen Mah
Pages -1-20
5. Comments:
1-The story took place in 1941 when Adeline was still a young girl in kindergarten. She is very smart and active in school and very obident in the family.
2-In the chinese culture, in the family they don't call each other by name but by the eldest to youngest in numerical order.
3-Thier culture also perfer males children over females. And because of that fact and that Adeline's mother died after having her, causing her to have the most disadvantage in the family. Even her biological siblings despise her and of course their stepmother, Niang.
4-The setting is during the WWII. And at the time period the french and japanese was controlling some region of where her family was living, Tianjin. So then her siblings and her goes to a catholic school and in different with a regular chinese family.
5-They were pretty rich. Also Nai Nai (grandmother in chinese) died after having a stroke. And from then their stepmother took control.
4.Questions:
1-Was it appropriate for Niang to marry Adeline father at a young age? Isn't it agaisnt the law? When she was seventeen she was already married.
2-Why don't their father do anything for them when Niang is treating her childern better than his?
3-Bandaging the feet was a really wierd custom, was there any other custom appealing for the females?
4-Was her religion buddism? Since her grandmother died, it was taken place in a temple with buddists. Is it alright to believe in buddism when there are influence in a catholic religion?
3.Vocabulary:
1-Arthritis:acute or chronic inflammation of a joint, often accompanied by pain and structural changes and having diverse causes, as infection, crystal deposition, or injury.
2-Imperiously:domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing
3-Deliberately:to weigh in the mind; consider. carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional.
2.Literary Terms:
1-D'enouement: EX.( Nai Nai died and their custom to hold a ceremony for Nai Nai to live well in heaven.)
2-Imagery: EX ( When her siblings took all of Adeline's dragon's eye fruit. It seems such a pity image in my mind that how could tehy hate her so much.
1. Overview:
1- During these 20 pages of the begining of the novel, Adeline seems like she will have a tough life, considering how her family treats her. The only perso nshe can depend most of the time was her aunt BAba. Her mother died after giving birth to her which sense everyone that she in bad luck. That's why everyone don't think of her as much. After awhile Her father married a half french half chinese lady (sh'e only seventeen) and she became her stepmother. No longer Nai Nai died and that's where Niang ( tehir stepmother) takes in the lead.
CHINESE CINDERELLA.
-Adeline Yen Mah
Pages -1-20
5. Comments:
1-The story took place in 1941 when Adeline was still a young girl in kindergarten. She is very smart and active in school and very obident in the family.
2-In the chinese culture, in the family they don't call each other by name but by the eldest to youngest in numerical order.
3-Thier culture also perfer males children over females. And because of that fact and that Adeline's mother died after having her, causing her to have the most disadvantage in the family. Even her biological siblings despise her and of course their stepmother, Niang.
4-The setting is during the WWII. And at the time period the french and japanese was controlling some region of where her family was living, Tianjin. So then her siblings and her goes to a catholic school and in different with a regular chinese family.
5-They were pretty rich. Also Nai Nai (grandmother in chinese) died after having a stroke. And from then their stepmother took control.
4.Questions:
1-Was it appropriate for Niang to marry Adeline father at a young age? Isn't it agaisnt the law? When she was seventeen she was already married.
2-Why don't their father do anything for them when Niang is treating her childern better than his?
3-Bandaging the feet was a really wierd custom, was there any other custom appealing for the females?
4-Was her religion buddism? Since her grandmother died, it was taken place in a temple with buddists. Is it alright to believe in buddism when there are influence in a catholic religion?
3.Vocabulary:
1-Arthritis:acute or chronic inflammation of a joint, often accompanied by pain and structural changes and having diverse causes, as infection, crystal deposition, or injury.
2-Imperiously:domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing
3-Deliberately:to weigh in the mind; consider. carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional.
2.Literary Terms:
1-D'enouement: EX.( Nai Nai died and their custom to hold a ceremony for Nai Nai to live well in heaven.)
2-Imagery: EX ( When her siblings took all of Adeline's dragon's eye fruit. It seems such a pity image in my mind that how could tehy hate her so much.
1. Overview:
1- During these 20 pages of the begining of the novel, Adeline seems like she will have a tough life, considering how her family treats her. The only perso nshe can depend most of the time was her aunt BAba. Her mother died after giving birth to her which sense everyone that she in bad luck. That's why everyone don't think of her as much. After awhile Her father married a half french half chinese lady (sh'e only seventeen) and she became her stepmother. No longer Nai Nai died and that's where Niang ( tehir stepmother) takes in the lead.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
ROARRRR BOOK!
Hey you guys! Guess what?? I finally got my ROAR book! So far I started and already read 1/3 of the story. If you're interested in fairytales here's a great recommendation. It's called Chinese Cinderella. It's an autobiography by Adeline Yen Mah, who struggles throughout her life as a unwanted child. Read it and enjoy like I did so far! :) YEAH! I can't wait to finish it.
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