The book Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah tells a story of a girl who has many ways in which she needs to show courage throughout her life, such as when she walked home from school by herself, when she stood up for Youngest sister when Niang was unfairly scolding her and when she was alone in the school in Tianjin. Explained at the beginning of the book, after Adeline was born her mother died, which caused her to be a symbol of bad luck to her family and therefore caused this maltreatment. Such as when Adeline is moving to her new school in Shanghai, nobody came to pick her up. But despite her feeling of being unwanted, she ventured out to the streets of Shanghai by herself. Eventually, when she could not possibly find her way from home
