How Does Niang Abuse Adeline

She overcame this “terror” with different methods. In the beginning of Adeline’s schooldays, Dai Dai (Father) made a joke about Adeline. “Is this medal for leading your class?” (11) he questioned. Adeline nodded in pride. Being little, she remembered this moment and treasured it next to her heart. When Adeline was turned on by Dai Dai and Niang, she tried to remember the one time Father was proud of her excellence in school. This proves Dai Dai was actually following the evil intentions of Niang, not turning on adeline out of the supposed coldness of his heart. When Adeline receives new friends at Sacred Heart boarding school and orphanage, they motivate Adeline with an inspirational pep talk. “We must get away, stand on our own feet and create our own destiny.” (176). Although similar to what Ye Ye said, Adeline takes this advice from the few friends she had and used it against the emotional pain of Niang’s taunts and torture. This proves Adeline has used all of her advice and information to “defeat” Niang and go to college in England. She has broken free from the bonds of torment and restriction, free to go and roam the

Adeline comes home from her first week of kindergarten, all smiles because she had been chosen to lead the class and has received a medal and a certificate for her achievement. Her aunt Baba is full of pride and files the certificate and medal in her safe deposit box. She described the certificate as “some precious jewel impossible to replace” (page 2). Adelines academic achievements are how she eventually gains acceptance within an uncaring family. She had a lot of pride over the metal it shows the sadness she is facing everyday, with her siblings hating her achievements and her dad only caring when she receives them. “I was winning the medal every week and wearing it constantly. I knew this displeased my siblings, especially Big Sister and Second Brother, but it was the only way to make Father take notice and be proud of me” (page 15). Adeline starts to mature when she starts to realize that her achievements should only matter if it makes her happy, not just her father. Adeline's parents threaten to move her to a far away school. Adeline is elected class president. Everyone is excited, her classmates and more importantly her. Her classmates decide to celebrate at her house and this is when her parents lash out and get

She would have had to drastically compromise her standards so that she could successfully run a household. Seeing as she was so young, that would have meant that she would have had to become mature and strict very fast, so that she could become a parental influence for the children. Adeline criticises her for her strict rules which she gives to the children when she says things such as “For a few hours I had been a normal little girl attending a birthday. This was strictly prohibited, and I had broken Niang’s rules. If she found out, the consequences would be disastrous.” . However, what Adeline doesn’t see, is that it’s not unreasonable that Niang set out many rules when trying to care for such a large number of people. Since there were so many of them, it would be hard to try and keep track of each child, especially since they have show to be troublesome in the past. “Silently but swiftly, Big Brother suddenly approached Ye Ye and carefully pinched the nasal hair between his forefinger and thumb.” Many of the rules which Niang put in place were there to protect them and keep them from making trouble. What Adeline fails to recognise is the importance of these rules and instead used them as a way of putting a negative twist on the

As Adeline suffers at the hands of her parents, it causes Adeline’s life to be very lonely and hopeless.

her household she resorts to outside sources, making herself a victim to boys, which creates a

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The grandmother is a hypocrite, very manipulative, and overall has a folly

What makes a child determine at such a young age to defy her mom on every hand for the rest of their life? The sad realization that Ni’Kan would rather see her mother angry at her than disappointed in her became her revelation.

She is facing powerlessness every day by not being able to openly be herself and who she knows she is. Violence comes into play from the innocent motherly traits to being physical. It seems as though

During the story I have come to understand the mother best. She becomes too afraid to take a stand against her husband's tyrannical outburst's, she's happy and content with so little to say and nothing of meager value to prove to her children. The mother has been ravaged by her husband's constant complaining about the smallest of burdens for years, she has adapted to his behavior and has allowed her children to become victims of the insanity.

One of the ways Adeline courage is although everyone around her is telling her she won’t succeed and that she is worthless, she never lets that affect her academically. On page 113, Adeline’s class comes to surprise her with a celebration of her winning the presidency. When Niang hears this she flies into a rage and starts screeching that Adeline doesn’t appreciate what they have provided her and she acts spoiled adding in “‘No matter what you consider yourself to be, you are nothing without your father! Nothing!

P1 Adeline is the main protagonist of the book Chinese Cinderella. In this book written by Adeline Yen Mah herself, it depicts her life and the adversities she’s had to overcome. The story takes place in China’s 1940’s to the 1950’s. When Adeline was born her mother died during childbirth, this gave her the title of a cursed child, as many people including her own father thought she only brought misfortune. Her own family looked down on her and even neglected to give her the bare necessities.

She wants her daughter, Ralindu, to act like her. Adichie illustrates how first young generation wishes to act as a typical American teenager and that induces a disconnection with their original culture which causes conflict

Ng-Chan begins to notice the growing intimacy between her father and her half sister, who represents an invasion of the relationship between her father and herself. Consequently, Ng-Chan, who has always considered herself an “only child,” displays jealousy. Her bitterness is compared to “the taste of something sharp and grey...like a tiny piece of rock…[she can] break her teeth on” if she is not careful. Thus, “somewhere along the way, [she stops] looking forward to Saturdays.” This results in a deviation in her perspective: an experience that was once enjoyable is no longer worthwhile. These changes, however, remain unnoticed by her father because she is reluctant to assert her feelings, unwilling to potentially harm their relationship. This is evident when she feels “sad about … how [her father’s] face changed” after she has expressed her unwillingness to go out with him. For this reason, she seems “go into an automatic cheer whenever [she] sees him,” and their “Saturday rituals [continue]... until the time she leaves for university.” The father’s ignorance about the transformations in her daughter’s attitude, coupled with the daughter’s inability to express her feelings, results in in an awkward deadlock in their relationship whereby neither of them can express an incentive to find a

The plot and structure in this autobiography makes the story of Adeline’s childhood flow better. The orientation started by Niang marrying Adeline’s father. At Adeline’s birth her mother died so Adeline was treated badly and unfairly. In the complication, Adeline was unwanted from the start. She was sent away to an orphanage because she was wanted by no one. In the resolution Adeline decided after winning the playwriting competition that she wanted to be a writer. She studied medicine at Oxford University with Third Brother. The reflection is that no matter what your conditions are you can achieve anything like Adeline did. In the story Adeline read a newspaper article that said “It was announced