Throughout Adeline’s life the concept of affectivity and affective neutrality took precedent within her family, she couldn’t rely on receiving emotional gratification from a relationship. Most often Adeline was subject to verbal abuse from her step mother, as well as physical abuse. Adeline won class president at her school one year, to celebrate her friends showing up uninvited to her house to celebrate her victory. However no victory was to ensue but instead humiliation by Niang for all to hear, and a brutal beating in private (p.68-69). Once the torment was over she was to return downstairs and dismiss her friends, therefore her parents could open the gifts left for her, and then force Adeline to throw them away. Adeline’s desperate attempt
