“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”(Mother Teresa.) Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is tale of an unwanted daughter, and how she ends up pulling through in the end of the memoir and being successful. She has been living in fear and neglect her whole life. But even though she suffers many hardships in her life, she takes the pain. Adeline has done many inspirational actions in this book. These are some of those inspirational actions: she tries her best at everything, she pulled through even though her friends were taken away from her, finally her hard work payed off in the end. That is why this story is truly the epitome of inspiration. Adeline tried her best at everything even though she is an unwanted daughter. She has been motivated to try hard in everything she does to please her family. “How wonderful! My triumph has become Father’s triumph! I must study harder and keep wearing this medal so I can go on pleasing father.” (p.11) This quote from the book helps us to understand that Adeline’s hard work in school has pleased Father. This is important because it shows that Adeline has been working hard in school to attempt to please her family. “When I go back to school, I’ll try …show more content…
All her hard work gained her respect from friends, class leadership, winning competitions, and pleasing her father enough to go to college. “Well we beg to differ. In fact, we voted you most likely to succeed.”(p.188) From this quote we understand that her friends think she will succeed in life. This is important because it shows she has gained respect from them. “Is it possible? Am I dreaming? Me, the winner?”(p.192) From this quote we can learn that Adeline won the play writing competition. This is important because she worked hard at it over her breaks and ended up being the victor. Adeline's persistence and loyalty payed off as she is announced she is going to college in the end of the
In the book the character Lavaughn is the type of person who cares about her education because she wants to get somewhere in life. Lavaughn tries her best to keep her grades up because she wants to get into college. Lavaughn is so focused on going to college because according to pg 10 chapter 4 her mother says “ nobody in this building Ever went to college, nobody in this family “Somebody got to be the first, right”. With her mother making these statements, Lavaughn want to pursue her goal to go to college.In addition, Lavaughn is a very determined person. For example, Lavaughn was looking for jobs that were being offered when she was at school.She found a job babysitting for another teenager named Jolly. Finally, Lavaughn would also be considered to be a caring person. Lavaughn is caring because, when she had to babysit, she was sacrificing her education to babysit Jolly’s two children. For instance, on page 27 it says that Jolly was gone for two days and Lavaughn had to stay home from school for a whole day. Also on page 21, chapter 8, it says that “Myrtle and Annie saw me skipping lunch to finish my math”. This shows how Lavaughn happens to be a caring, persist, and helpful person.
Throwaway daughter is written by Ting-xing Ye and her husband, William Bell and this novel tells the readers many truths about the chinese culture. This novel is about a Chinese girl call Grace who is adopted by a Canadian couple. Her adoptive parents do not hide anything that she is adopted and they want her to learn about her Chinese culture. Grace doesn’t want to know anythings about her birth family and her chinese roots. Over the years, she grows up, she decides to study the business in China and finds out who she is. Grace’s journey in the story reveals her self-discovery and self-acceptance of being Chinese-Canadian through the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
The Chinese New year marks a time of celebration, tradition, and new beginnings. The Chinese people celebrate their hard work during this time by resting and enjoying time with family. The tradition to rest, and close businesses is so that luck may come upon them for the upcoming year. In the novel, Donald Duk written by Frank Chin the Duk family takes these traditions very seriously. They are a Chinese family living in America, in the Chinatown district of San Francisco where this novel takes place. The Duk family has immigrated to San Francisco however their children including the protagonist, Donald Duk was born in America. Donald is an eleven-year-old boy who struggles with his overwhelming need to be American and his undeniable Chinese
She did all she could to give him a good life. Despite the struggles, “she had brought him up successfully and had sent him to college and that he had turned out so well- good looking ([since] her teeth had gone unfilled so that his could be straightened), intelligent… and with a future ahead of him”
In the book Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Suyuan Woo reluctantly left her twin daughters at the side of the road while fleeing from Kweilin. She had reached her limit which was brought upon by being forced to lighten her load while traveling on foot with two babies. Suyuan realized she did not have a high chance of survival with all the casualties from the war, so she trusted her faith in destiny as she carried her slings with her babies until her “hands began to bleed and became too slippery to hold on to anything” (14). By the time Suyuan arrived in Chungking she “had lost everything except three fancy silk dresses” (14). Her sacrifice showed how much Suyuan wanted what was best for her babies even if it meant she would lose them. When Suyuan
As children, most of our life lessons are acquired through the simplicity of fairy tales. Subliminal messages taught us to always believe in true love and in the eternal victory of good over evil. This is the case in the Brothers Grimm’s “Cinderella”, a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression followed by triumphant reward, where true love conquers all and eventually sets the world right. Cinderella is a fallen princess who finally meets with tough reality, bearing headstrong grit and perseverance. She proves that by entrusting one’s self and instincts, one can then achieve anything they put their minds to. She demonstrates such boldness when dealing with her step-family, sorting out the good lentils from the bad, and finally when making a sudden and unexpected appearance at the ball.
...hough she was brutally mistreated, Cinderella was able to find a solution for her problems and children can to. All they have to do is make the effort, try hard enough and success is possible. Adults should pay attention to this and see if Cinderella can help their children keep a positive attitude toward whatever situation they may be in - exaggerated as it may be. Cinderella doesn't only help show one how to overcome adversity it points out good morals, and sends the message that good always prevails. Both of these messages are crucial in a society that is slowly crumbling. All we can do is watch and hope the messages learned from Cinderella make a difference in the lives of Children all around the world.
The music, the people, the food, the castle, My dream is to work at DisneyLand because of the amazing disney characters. If I worked at disneyland I would want to have the amazing dream of seeing the castle,seeing the characters, and the obstacles of working in disneyland.I think it would be a dream come true.
Hello it’s me Cinderella’s fairy god mother. I watch over Cinderella. I send her help when she is in trouble. There are many times I have helped her. Most people wonder where I live well I live some were called Atlantica. Atlantica is also known as fairy tale land. There are many fairy god mothers that live in Atlantica. In Atlantica there are lots of mermaids, fairies, unicorns, and all magical things.
The story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan is about a mother and daughter who have strong conflicting ideas about what it means to have a sense of self. This may be partly due to the mother growing up in China, which is a very different culture than the American culture where endless opportunities are available to anyone who wants to pursue them. Jing-mei's mother wants her daughter to be the best, a prodigy of sorts, and to have the kind of life, full of hopes and dreams that she did not have. In the beginning of the story Jing-mei liked the idea of becoming a prodigy however, the prodigy in her became impatient. "If you don't hurry up and get me out of here, I'm disappearing for good." It warned. "And then you'll always be nothing" (500). After disappointing her mother several times Jing-mei started to detest the idea of becoming a prodigy. The idea Jing-mei's mother had for her to become a prodigy was too much pressure for a small child and was something that Jing-mei was clearly not ready to be. As a result the pressure that her mother laid upon her only made Jing-mei rebel against her mother and she resisted in giving her best. Jing-mei did this because she only wanted her mother's love and acceptance for who she was not only what she could become. Furthermore, Jing-mei's point of view of being the kind of person that one can be proud of was very different from her mother's point of view.
As Paulo Coelho once said "Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world." The potential that he speaks of is in everyone and some people realize it at an early age and harness that a become great people. The issue that comes up when that potential is ignored or not even searched for or persuaded. It starts for the very beginning when a child is born into this world and from that moment forth they have to start searching and discovering that they really are as a human being. They must find the true and ultimate reason why they were put on this planet. Parents in many cases stand as a block or wall against what their child is meant to accomplish or become in the
The Disney Cinderella accepts her fate as the family’s maid. Madonna Kolbenschlag writes, “This willing acceptance of a condition of worthlessness and her expectation of rescue (as a reward for her virtuous suffering) is recognizable paradigm of traditional feminine socialization” (Kolbenschlag,
The pageant world not only gave her assurance in herself, it also gave her a bigger voice. Instead of feeling inadequate, she realized that she held influence with her crown.
In the chinese version of Cinderella, also known as “Yen-Shen”. The plot is similar and is very different compared to “Aschenputtel”. In the two stories the area of magic is very different. In “Aschenputtel” her mother dies and she has a large oak tree that grants her wishes, but in “Yen-Shen” her beautiful fish friend is brutally stabbed and cooked for dinner by the evil stepmother. Instead of a tree she has a pile of fish bones that grant her wishes. After we get past that part of the story, the two stories are very alike. Yen shen wants to go to the festival, but does not have any nice clothes to wear, so she asks the fish bones and then she goes to the festival. It is almost the same in “Aschenputtel”, It just has a couple different details.
And at the end of the year, everything I had worked for finally became true. Eventually it became so bad I gave up everything for good grades; full meals, 8 hours of sleep, and even my own happiness. I didn’t even care about the grades anymore, it became all about being perfect no matter the sacrifice. And at the end of the year, everything I had worked for finally became true. I didn’t receive one of the awards for school grades, not two, but seven. At the ceremony, I got called up one time after another, the certificates piling up, people's faces becoming warped with shock. At last I had become perfect, a flawless student, a teacher's pet, and the biggest overachiever in the school. But, it didn’t mean anything to me. Staring at those awards, certificates any other student in the school would cherish and hold dearly, I felt as if I was staring at meagre blank sheets of paper. These awards were it, this was what all of that work, all of that suffering, all of those nights of tear stricken eyes and rumbling stomach had surmounted to. A cheap, silly, and pointless stack of certificates. It was then, staring at those awards, when I realised how foolish I’d been. I’d done all this work for nothing, not to please me, not to please