Adeline Yen Mah

Adeline Yen Mah takes you back to the 1940’s and describes her life as the unwanted daughter on the book Chinese Cinderella. Adeline describes her life in great details, she never leaves one moment untouched. She brings tears to your eyes with deep, dark and beautiful words. The most admirable quality of this book is the raw emotion and qualities Yen Mah demonstrates. Adeline Yen Mah started writing at a very young age. She was very fluent in english literature and writing. She would tell her…

Chinese Cinderella is a true story of Adeline Yen Mah's childhood where she was hated and despised by her family because she is believed to be the cause of her mother's death. Despite this, she is an extremely intelligent girl trying exceedingly hard at school, desperate to prove her worth. Some of the themes evident in this novel are perseverance, isolation, Tragedy, Acceptance and self-worth. One of the themes of the story was Tragedy. All her life Adeline was suffering, her life was…

Chinese Cinderella with the main character Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline’s mom died when she was very young, causing her to go live with her father and evil stepmother. Everyday, Adeline was treated with disrespect from her stepmother and step siblings. She would work extremely hard everyday…

“Chinese Cinderella” It tells about this Girls life. Her name being “Adeline-Yen Mah”. A ten year old who lives in China you get to read about her life of living without a mother or a father. Also having a family that hates her and consenters her “bad luck”. The mother of Adeline died giving birth to her. The mother of Adeline Died From a high fever three days after Adeline was born. Adeline mother died two weeks after Adeline was born. Even Adeline’s own sister hated her saying “If…

Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah, she tells the story of her life from the events leading up to her birth to much later on. The author touches on everything from world events like the Cultural Revolution to very personal aspects such as her relationship to her abusive step-mother. Through reading this book one can learn about a lot of different aspects of Chinese culture but specifically women's role in society, marriage customs,…

Adeline is like a broken toy, forgotten and not loved. The novel Chinese Cinderella explains how a young girl fights through her heartbreak and suffer. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah tells a story about a young Chinese girl who has a depressing life, and her siblings accusing her of killing there mother. Her grandmother dies of a massive stroke, and her mean step-mother slaps her and physically abuses her throughtout the entire book. Also, her first pet is brutally murdered by her…

unwanted child is a depressed child. Depression is a horrible thing. The Chinese Cinderella, Adeline, is an unwanted child. Some would even say that she is depressed. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is an inspirational story because she is self reliant, able to realize a problem and then solve it, and able to recognize a power change even though she came from an abusive childhood. Adeline was able to recognize a do a power change from Nai Nai to Niang. "In those few moments,…

The book Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, is an autobiography of being born as the fifth child of a depressing time. Adeline’s mother soon passed away after she was born which labeled her as the “cursed” child, which led to the distance between her and her family. The only people who truly displays affection toward her were her grandfather, Ye Ye, and her Aunt Baba. But soon after her mother died, her father remarried a young French-Asian woman, who she refers to as Niang, who married her…

in the fall of 1941. The main character is a young girl named Adeline and she is in kindergarten. Adeline has 4 birth siblings, Lydia, Gregory, Edgar, and James and 2 step siblings, Franklin and Susan. Adeline's meanest sibling is Edgar. Edgar goes out of his way to make Adeline's life miserable. He enjoys hurting her and making her feel like she is less than him. James, the youngest of the boys, is sometimes compassionate towards Adeline; however, he is in on many of the pranks Gregory and…

Adeline Yen Mah’s autobiography, Chinese Cinderella, tells the tale of a young girl in 20th century China who was severely abused and neglected throughout her childhood. Her story also resembles the Chinese Cinderella story Yeh-Shen. Throughout her novel, many themes and issues are addressed including Adeline’s perseverance, her broken family relationships and realising her own self worth and importance. Through multiple positioning techniques and Yen Mah’s vivid vignettes, readers gain personal…