This book is a troubling tale about a young girl named Xing Xing. She was a girl who lived in a cave just outside of the village with Wei Ping, half-sister, and stepmother. After her mother and father died she became a slave to her stepmother and half-sister. There are a lot of Chinese traditions in this story, which help tell about Xing Xing’s life. Some are very unique and while others are similar to the United States culture.
The story starts out with Xing Xing cleaning her family’s house. She has to tend to her half-sister because her foot was just bound. Foot binding is when a women’s foot is bent and broken to make them smaller. Foot binding was a common thing in China until about 60 years ago. Back then, Chinese women were considered …show more content…
As she was looking for food in the village, she found a blind kit and a carp, which is a fresh water fish. As she looked at these she wondered what they had done to be reincarnated as such things. Reincarnation is a belief that when you die your soul comes back to take a new form, and this form depends on your past life’s experiences. This is a common belief in some religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and a variety of New Age religions. Reincarnation in the United States has been steadily increasing. It has become part of religion as well as their natural …show more content…
He was coming there because he was looking for a women’s whose foot would fit in a gold shoe that was sold to him. The Prince wanted to make this woman his wife. She said the shoe got so expensive in price that he was the only one who could buy it. Stepmother entered Wei Ping and herself, but Xing Xing was left out. Instead, Xing Xing was sent off to tidy up the house. When the Prince arrived he tried the shoe on Stepmother and Wei Ping but the shoe did not fit either of them. As he was about to leave Xing Xing leapt out of the shadows and started talking to the prince. She showed him the match to the shoe and they began to live happily
The story starts out with Xing Xing cleaning her family’s house. She has to tend to her half-sister because her foot was just bound. Foot binding is when a women’s foot is bent and broken to make them smaller. Foot binding was a common thing in China until about 60 years ago. Back then, Chinese women were considered …show more content…
As she was looking for food in the village, she found a blind kit and a carp, which is a fresh water fish. As she looked at these she wondered what they had done to be reincarnated as such things. Reincarnation is a belief that when you die your soul comes back to take a new form, and this form depends on your past life’s experiences. This is a common belief in some religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and a variety of New Age religions. Reincarnation in the United States has been steadily increasing. It has become part of religion as well as their natural …show more content…
He was coming there because he was looking for a women’s whose foot would fit in a gold shoe that was sold to him. The Prince wanted to make this woman his wife. She said the shoe got so expensive in price that he was the only one who could buy it. Stepmother entered Wei Ping and herself, but Xing Xing was left out. Instead, Xing Xing was sent off to tidy up the house. When the Prince arrived he tried the shoe on Stepmother and Wei Ping but the shoe did not fit either of them. As he was about to leave Xing Xing leapt out of the shadows and started talking to the prince. She showed him the match to the shoe and they began to live happily