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.
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