” (Mother Teresa) In Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Mother Teresa's words of wisdom apply to Adeline's life because she is always by herself with no one to defend her from her harsh parents, mean siblings, and the rest of the world. The memoir features Adeline as a lonely person at home and is unwanted by her parents. The book Chinese Cinderella is an inspiration of how she overcame her problems and succeeded in what she wanted to do. Adeline expresses feelings of sadness and loneliness
Only you can create your future and control your success in life. Adeline Yen Mah finds a way to get through her tough life and keep her head up. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is an inspirational story. Adeline, abused and treated horribly by her stepmother, rose above her dreadful life. She is an inspiration because she keeps going when she is treated horribly and learns to have pride for who she is. Adeline is gifted with intelligence. At Adeline's school in Shanghai she makes
The story of The Unwanted Child Adeline Yen Mah was the author of Chinese Cinderella. She didn’t have the best of life as a young child, she was sent away to many different schools. It was especially hard because her stepmother was always imperiously. Adeline always felt chagrined, because no one really showed that they loved her except for some people. Aunt Baba, Ye Ye, and her cousin Victor were part of the few people who cared about her and who she could be herself around and feel like she belonged
Chinese Cinderella is a compelling autobiography by Adeline Yen Mah, a struggling child, yearning for acceptance and love in her dysfunctional family. In this novel of “a ‘secret story of an unwanted daughter”, Adeline presents her stepmother Niang, as a violent, impatient, biased, domineering and manipulative demon. Analysing the language used by the author, we can discover how effectively she does this. Although Niang explicitly demonstrates her blatant favouritism towards her actual birth kids
Adeline encounters many hardships but always perseveres, similar this quote, “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” (Maya Angelou). In the novel, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline and Aunt Baba have a close relationship in which they both depend on each other in similar ways. In the story, they both rely on each other for
Adeline doesn’t get much support from her family, except for two, Aunt Baba and Yeye. With the constant depressing situations in the book, Adeline has been blessed with two people who actually care. Aunt Baba and Yeye actually want to encourage Adeline to do her best because unlike the other members in her family, they do not treat her as just an unwanted child. In the novel, Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline is greatly supported by Ye Ye and Aunt Baba although out the book
This quote is important to the story, because it relates to how Adeline took courageous risks to help herself and her peers. In the story Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline compares herself to Mulan. Adeline courageously stands up for herself while facing many verbal and physical battles. Adeline is truly an inspirational character and will take many risks to protect the things she cares about. Adeline fights for respect from her family and never gives up even when
novel Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah faces many challenges in her life and shows perseverance. Adeline is very close to failure and is constantly unwanted by her family, but this neglected daughter strives to do her best and perseveres through obstacle after obstacle to find her way. Even though Adeline does succeed at the end of the book, Chinese Cinderella, a true biography by Adeline Yen Mah, is a depressing story in my opinion. In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline, the main character, faces
certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.” -Thomas A. Edison. This applies to Adeline never giving up and always trying harder and harder to get into college and to be noticed by her Father. Thomas A. Edison said this so nobody would give up. Also, you have to always keep trying until you succeed, just like Adeline did. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is an inspirational story because Adeline got her wish to go to college, she finally got treated differently, and her father is now
applies to the style of which Adeline Yen Mah wrote her autobiography Chinese Cinderella to all of its readers. No matter how many people who have read the story and believe it is depressing, they are correct, however, it is also and most importantly, inspirational. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is an inspirational story because it shows how Adeline has courage, she steps out of her comfort zone, and she inspires others to overcome their struggles. Adeline is a courageous young girl, who
Adeline suffered an abusive and mentally destructive life with only two people by her side to help. Aunt Baba and her grandfather,YeYe, supported her and inspired her into who she is today. In the memoir, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline needs Aunt Baba more than Aunt Baba needs her because she is neglected by Niang and Father, she doesn't like Niang, the boss of the family, and she doesn't have anyone else to love her. Adeline is very insecure and Aunt Baba is the only person who loves
"Your future is limitless, and I shall always be proud of you, my Chinese Cinderella," Aunt Baba. In the book Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, there are many similarities tying Adeline Yen Mah to the original story of "Ye Xian," by Ai-Ling Louie. The story of "Ye Xian," is the Chinese version of Cinderella from ancient China. Ye Xian is born to a Chief and her mother died giving birth to her. Ye Xian became a very skilled potter and quilter; she was very beautiful and loved by her father.
Mother Teresa once stated, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty.” The book, A Chinese Cinderella, an autobiography by Adeline Yen Mah, is a story about an unwanted daughter who tries to overcome these feelings of being unwanted, neglected, abused, and lonely throughout her young lifetime. Adeline wrote this book to share her story of how she transformed her negative circumstances into something she learned from. She realized that her self-worth was determined by
Adeline was known as "bad luck" in her family. Her childhood to age 14 was a mix of feelings and a miserable experience for her. People in her family like Niang and Father didn't respect her at all and made her feel horrible about herself. The autobiography , Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, is depressing because the author writes her miserable childhood to age 14. Adeline's guardians Niang and Father don't treat her with respect or love that she is supposed to have. Adeline loved PLT with
In her autobiography, ‘Chinese Cinderella’, Adeline Yen Mah recounts painful memories of a childhood of neglect. The main themes explored in the text are family, abandonment, and self-esteem. Yen Mah’s portrayal of difficult situations in her home life, encourages readers to sympathise with her difficulty, although it is Adeline’s tenacious will to never give up as a child, despite trying circumstances, that enables readers to also like her as a character and hope that she will ultimately succeed
In the text “Chinese Cinderella”, Adeline Yen Mah is both a fortunate and unfortunate child. A fortunate child is someone that is favored, lucky, loved, happy and thriving. On the other hand being unfortunate is to be unlucky, poor, cursed, miserable and Adeline is neither. In the text, it is presented that she has had multiple occurrences with bad luck. Continuously it shows that she is unfortunate because her family does not care about her. Due to Adeline having a horrendous childhood shows that
world. In the book, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, it is shown and proven that culture affects a person’s society, decisions, and human perspective. Adeline’s life is shaped around the Chinese culture she lives by that is enforced by her stepmother while being restricted of freedom and influenced by outside cultures, such as her classmates. Culture can be an influence by making the decisions you make, or, in Adeline’s case, made for you. Adeline is not able to have the freedom that normal
This quote goes with my outlook on the novel Chinese Cinderella because in the quote it is saying that if you should want success more than having fear of failure. The book Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is an inspirational story. There were parts in the story that were really inspirational. Adeline went through many different situations and in all of them she tried so hard to make the best of what she had. Even though she didn’t have much she still made the most of she did have and cherished
“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
In the book, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline herself tells her first hand story about how family can affect relationships with other people, and self-esteem. She also talks about how loneliness and abandonment as a child can affect a person's life to a great extent with emotional and trust issues. However, at the end of the book she shows that if she teaches people that if someone have positive encouragement they can do anything, even with negative things that might be happening in