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.

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