Falling Down

Throughout the years, reading and writing have had an impact on my life unlike any other. Specific writings have prepared me for the journey of life. These pieces of literature consist of, Chinese Cinderella, Life’s for the Living, Forever in our Hearts, an autobiography written by my great-great-grandfather, the phrase ‘Mind over Matter,’ and Project Semicolon. Chinese Cinderella, Life’s for the Living, and Forever in our Hearts have influenced me to be unyielding. The autobiography inspires me

On Google.com the word “significant” refers to something that is “sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy.” For something to have a significant impact on someone, it must be meaningful, relevant, and important. As stated by Thomas Hardy, “A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling; it must have something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man and woman.” It must have something meaningful, something that pulls a reader

Every adolescent has struggles and problems that need to be resolved throughout their life, however, one constant is that their parents are always there for them. Whether they fix the problem themselves, or help their child through it, the child almost always receives the help they require. A quote from “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost helps describe what it is like when the parents are not there for the child. “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that sends the frozen-ground-swell under it

Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is depressing book about a little chinese girl faced with abuse, neglect and her left feeling tossed aside and that almost no one cares about her accept her aunt, Which is later taken away from her by her abusive step-mother Niang. Later she overcomes the grasp of her parents through education and help from friends. She achieves her dream and makes it to college in England. In Adelines childhood she says that she felt like she was tossed aside like a piece of

Chinese Cinderella is a very moving story that will touch your heart. It is about a young girl, Adeline Yen Mah, who goes through many hardships throughout her life. Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, is an inspirational story about an unwanted and unloved daughter who tries her best to make her family notice and appreciate her. Adeline gets back up everytime she gets abused. She gets whipped and slapped for every little bad thing she does. Adeline said, “Niang’s blows must have caused a nosebleed

death. Big sister once told Adeline, ‘If you had not been born, Mama would still be alive. She died because of you. You are bad luck.’ When Father re-married Niang, she became the head of the family, replacing Ye Ye and moving Adeline even further down the ranks. Niang and Father treated her very poorly, however Adeline had a longing to please Father and gain

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When you hear the word “Cinderella” you think of a fairy tale, right? Well for Adeline Yen Mah the word Cinderella refers to her book, Chinese Cinderella. Adeline Yen Mah is the author of this depressing story in which she tells the readers how it was growing it in 20th century China being an unwanted child. In this story she is abused verbally and physically for attending her best friend’s birthday party, her father forgets her name, and her siblings dislike her. When Adeline is caught going to

Smack! Smack! The feeling of being unwanted and unloved by your parents sinks in again. Such was the life of Adeline Yen Mah, an unwanted and mistreated daughter who suffers all her life. Chinese Cinderella, a book by Adeline Yen Mah, is an inspiring story in which Adeline overcomes her abusive childhood with the love and care of Aunt Baba and Ye Ye. Aunt Baba believes in Adeline in many ways throughout the story. For example "You can be anything you set your mind to be. Why, you might even become

because the main character gets treated unfairly and abused by her father and selfish stepmother. Adeline was treated unfairly especially when they moved to a new house in Shanghai. ¨Big Brother scraped back his chair, ran upstairs and came down with PLT. Everyone avoided looking at me¨ (Yen Mah 81). This shows how they only chose Adeline´s pet out of the others because they think theirs is more important. ¨Most of Niang´s friends were unaware