The Falling Man

New York City and Washington, D.C., including more than 400 police officer and firefighters.” I have watch many videos of Septembers11 but this is my first time watching this touchable documentary video of falling man. By looking this documentary about falling man I realize that the people inside towers are just the suicide for them. Looking this documentary shows a…

Falling leaves was a New York Times Bestseller in 1997. She then went on to create a children's version of Falling Leaves which was labeled Chinese Cinderella. Chinese Cinderella has since won many awards for the incredible and compelling story it tells. Adeline starts with a vivid opening “As soon as I got…

Imagine being 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…

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…

Adeline; however, he is in on many of the pranks Gregory and Edgar play. Lydia is the eldest child. Lydia has a lame arm, so she likes to boss her siblings around and have them carry out her chores. She becomes married at the age of 17 to a 31 year old man and is never seen again…

irony in the denouement of The Story of an Hour. The situational irony is when we find out that she was dead, even though it was not long after she was praying for a long life. The fact that these sharp differences in the exposition, rising action, falling action and denouement exist proves that these stories are alien to each other. An essential part of a story its plot. These facts are important because they allow more insight into such stories which in turn gives us more information to…

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities” (Yen Mah xii). This quote was written by the author of Chinese Cinderella who taught that one dream can be better than all your negative realities. This novel is very encouraging to have faith even when times are ruthless. In the story, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, the memoir really inspires students to stand up for what they believe. Through Adeline's struggles, it teaches readers to…

Reverend Olin Blitch – When this man discovered that Savannah was a virgin, he begs for her forgiveness. When the light from her soul diminished and she turned her back on him, he seemed like he couldn’t live with himself anymore. The fact that he was shot and no longer had to live with…

Composers have the power to create different worlds and new messages. The autobiographical novel Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah and the drama Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard demonstrate the hardships faced by individuals in difficult circumstances and their ability to escape to new places. In these texts the composers have developed the concept of new messages having the power to change an individual’s lack of acceptance in their world. _In Chinese Cinderella, the protagonist…

Chinese Cinderella is the perfect title for this touching and emotional novel. 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…