Another Cinderella Story

by the Daily Mail ticket prices have gone up by 26% since 2007! Ticket prices are not the only thing expensive about going to the theater though. Another thing that is expensive is the cost for your snacks! According to an article in Time magazine, 85% of the theater profit comes from the concession stand! A small box of M&Ms can cost up to $5! Another one of the main disadvantages is the distractions. In the theater, you have parents who bring their loud, crying kids. If you’re close enough to…

change your eating habit by simply eating healthier. They might get a point, eating healthier might make things simpler. But, there’s one thing people shouldn’t ignore; adopting a healthier eating habit is not easy and most of the time people fail. Another thing is that when you follow a detox plan, you do what a dieting plan does, but faster. It shouldn’t take a genius to decipher the meaning behind “detox”. To put it in simple words, to detox means getting read of all the impurities in your…

Before people wrote their stories or had the internet, everything was told over and over again at the dinner table or a party. Every region has a story, or has told several stories, and Germany is no different. Their gruesome tales of what are now stories for the children are known throughout the world as the rags to riches of Disney princesses everywhere. But, who took to write down each tale from the mouths of peasants and which ones have been altered and formed into a story fitting for the…

are The Nightmare before Christmas, The cinderella story, and High Beams. These 3 pieces of work use archetypes, setting and mood to achieve the horror genre and draw the reader into the story or movie.The horror genre is best represented by a spooky setting that helps set up the story. Most of the time a horror passage will have some type of archetype that is in danger or trouble. Then they will have some type of evil archetype that is corrupting the story or murder, but that makes it…

forgotten by your father, bullied by your step-mother, and tormented by your siblings. Adeline Yen Mah endured these things every day, with her only escape as school and her roommate, Aunt Baba, and her grandfather, Ye Ye. In the memoir, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline has a troubled youth. The people that she looks towards for support are Ye Ye and Aunt Baba, and they help her to overcome her abusive childhood. Adeline’s grandfather Ye Ye cares for Adeline in a loving way…

Having grown up with a supporting family, I have become ignorant to the hardships experienced in other households. However, after having read the novel Chinese Cinderella written by Adeline Yen Mah and interviewed Sarah Marcello, my outlook on this subject has been influenced. Chinese Cinderella follows the life of a young Adeline as she struggles through life as the unwanted child of the Yen Mah family. Sarah Marcello was sent to live with her grandparents in Italy following the discovery of…

Without a stable family, life for Jeannette Walls and Adeline Yen Mah was disastrous. Though they both come from different cultural backgrounds, they share similar experiences of a tragic childhood. In Yen Mah’s autobiography, Falling Leaves, she recaps her life in a disunited family under a strict step-mother, Niang. Yen Mah tries desperately to distance herself from Niang by traveling to America, only to discover that Niang did not care enough about Adeline to leave a portion of her money in…

The book A Chinese Cinderella begins 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…

is dynamic and constantly evolving. Cinderella has come a long way from its origin as a tale about persecution. In class, my classmates and I were given the Grimm’s fairytale version of Cinderella, which was written back in 1812 through the perspective of a common villager. We were asked to annotate and keep mind of various things such as religion, hierarchy and feminism. Later, we watched various trailers throughout the years to this present day of Cinderella. By doing this activity, it allowed…

“Chinese Cinderella is dedicated to you (unwanted children) with the fervent wish that you will persist in trying to do your best in the face of hopelessness; to have faith in the end your spirit will prevail; to transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.” (Yen Mah xii) Adeline Yen Mah’s memoir of her childhood was influential as she overcame hardships and burdens; finding hope in difficult situations. The story was inspirational because Adeline…