She fed the worms to PLT and shooed the other ducklings away. Suddenly, she was hit so hard by Second Brother that it knocked her over. He was angry that she favored her duck over his.
Adeline returned to the garden to get another worm but the family dog, a German Shepherd who didn't take to her, bit her on the wrist. Aunt Baba dressed her wound and cautioned Browse all BookRags Study Guides. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation.
Sign Up. Father agrees, whipping Adeline for her insolent behavior. These chapters serve to emphasize the disparity between Adeline and the other children within the household, even her direct siblings.
The story of PLT is especially heartbreaking, with the duckling serving as a metaphor of the injustices that befall Adeline, the most "awake" member of the family. The biased selection by Big Brother and the subsequent drawn out death serve to embody the injustices of the Yen family. At the same time, we are allowed to see some different dimensions of our characters, with Big Brother and Third Brother showing some empathy towards their younger sister.
The better aspects of these characters are showcased in the waning moments of this chapter, children caught up in the fury of their imbalanced household. It is sad that we do not get to see these two characters develop much further.
Although they are painted as oppressive for much of the novel, it is in scenes like this one where the reader yearns for a more detailed look at the periphery characters, perhaps not as immoral as they appear from young Adeline's point of view.
Afterwards, the scene of Big Sister's wedding juxtaposes the upscale Anglicized society that Niang's children live in and the antique customs that the natural born children are forced to uphold.
The betrayal of Aunt Baba by Big Sister should not come off as a surprise to anyone reading the book, since the characters have been noticeably static. The wedge driven between Niang and Aunt Baba clearly foreshadows the impossibility of this family structure staying the way it is for long.
The cause for the disparity between the living conditions of the two sets of Yen children is again brought into question by these chapters. The embarrassment that the three eldest brothers suffer at the hands of their classmates is very public, as is their exposure to the various guests at the wedding. Since Father's prioritization of public image has been of the driving factors behind the developments thus far in the novel, his tolerance for the public shaming of his children seems oddly out of character.
The next day, Adeline wins the class election with the help of Wu Chun-mei, whose popularity helps sway many students. Adeline is thrilled, feeling that they have both won it together. Adeline is seen as bad luck because her mother died after she was born. As Chun-mei leaves, still loyal to Adeline, she shouts at Niang and Father that such treatment is cruel and unfair. Aunt Baba is unmarried, and so she lives with the family and is financially dependent on them, meaning that she is not in the position to defy Niang or Father when they are cruel and abusive.
At fourteen, she won a writing competition, which convinced her father to send her to study in England. One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written in French by Charles Perrault in , under the name Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre. The popularity of his tale was due to his additions to the story, including the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother and the introduction of "glass" slippers.
This book is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. It really shows that you can do anything you set your mind to. It's a true story of the author's childhood where she was hated and despised by her family because she is believed to be the cause of her mothers death.
Two years later, I wrote Chinese Cinderella to emphasise the importance of education in a child's life. Hopefully, this proverb will bring hope to every child in the world, not just to me. Adeline Yeh Mah is a trained physician, though she gave up medicine for her writing. Fourth Brother is also in the car and treating her angrily, due to the fact that Adeline spoiled his nefarious prank to hurt Ye Ye earlier in the day, getting him in trouble with Father.
It is one of the oldest known variants of Cinderella, first published in the Tang dynasty compilation Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang written around by Duan Chengshi. Category: events and attractions funeral. Adeline's siblings chose before her and she was the last one to pick. She ended up with the scrawniest and smallest looking bird of them all.
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