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Summary: This little cinderella can catch your interesting!!!
Review: Chinese Cinderella is just a soap opera story. Nothing interesting.
This is what I think when i see the name of this book. However, I spend some of my free time reading it. Then, I can't stop and put this book down. This is a book which has a charm in its story. Adeline Yen Mah, the narrator in this story expresses her true story in her childhood. It's a bad memory in her life. Her bad memory starts when she was born and from her birth made her mother died. This is the cause that make her being an unwanted daughter in her family. She was noticed as an unlucky. Adeline never got a good treat from her father and her siblings. However, this little cinderella still has Aunt Baba and Yeye, they are a person who always cheer her up. If she doesn't has these two people, i wonder how her life would be next....
I love this story because it shows out the fact of an unwanted daughter in Chinese families. I wonder why most families in Chinese don't want to have daughter. There is nothing different to have a son or a daughter. Your sons and daughters will be a good person if parents give love to them.
Adeline herself can tell us that to be an unwanted daughter doesn't mean that you must be a bad person, she does her best in studying to get interest from her father. This show that being an unwanted doesn't mean being bad. Maybe in one place you are an unwanted, but you maybe a belove in other places.
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Summary: Too depressing
Review: Read it in school, lots of questions, but it is an easy read. "The problem then, Mdizzio?" Well, depression. I dislike reading books that depress you so much to the point of being depressed and miserable. Why write such tragic books if they only make you feel sad. These books do not make me feel happy for my life, they just make me feel sad for a different one.Her family torchers her. Pee drinking, her pet, everything seems to come crashing down at one point or another. Seriously though, everything she loves is put down and it is almost painful reading the next page because you know something terrible will happen. I would not reccomend this book for people who like depressing reads. It is easy though, and many people probably love reading depressing novels or whatever, and the class seemed to like it. I mean I didn't, but they did. We all know though they were just telling the teacher what she wanted to hear.
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Summary: Great book, sad story
Review: This book changed the way I think of things. I am lucky enough to be in a loving family, with parents who support and take care of me. While I read this book, I can honestly say that while I thought her life was bad, there's no way I can even come close to imagining how bad the author's life actually was. I would definately recommend this book-if you think you've got things bad, read this. It really puts things into perspective, and I'm glad I read it. I've appreciated what I have much more, ever since I read it.
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Summary: It seems like a drama but it's not!
Review: After I finished reading this book, I told myself, "Yes! It's the real life of Chinese." As we know that a daughter is not expected to be born in any Chinese's family because the parents prefer sons. This story can clearly show this point to the readers. I really like this book because it makes me feel as if I were Wu Mei (heroine) and I can't put it down whenever I pick it up. I just want to know what will happen to her next. Wu Mei is a daughter who is born with the bitter life. At her first breath, she is called "BAD LUCK" as she says, "My family considered me bad luck because my mother died giving birth to me." I think this story is more sorrowful than the real Cinderella. Since, in the Cinderella, the heroine is threatened by her stepmother only but in this story, Wu Mei, the heroine, is badly treated by both her stepmother and her own father who gives her a life. I really hate her father because I think that it's very terrible that someone who gives a life to me will be the person who destroys my life. In this story, Wu Mei's father is the very bad father because he never thinks that Wu Mei is a part of his life as she says, "As for father, he doesn't even remember my name. In his mind, I'm nothing. Less than nothing. A piece of garbage to be thrown out". I think this book is the very good example for some children who are in the same situation as Wu Mei. Although, she is unhappy with her family, she never hurts or does anything bad to herself. On the other hand, she just works hard on studying in order to forget all bad thing, to build up her good future and to make her father accept her. Moreover, I think this story will be able to encourage some people who are feeling down because in this story, Wu Mei is finally accepted by her father. At least, it shows that if we try to do something hard, it will be successful one day.
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Summary: Touching Story
Review: This book is a sad, touching memour about a girl who has no kindness given to her at all.Her family almost treats her like a slave.Though Wu -mi (Adeline) doesn't do any harm to her brothers and sisters, they have no respect for her at all.For cry'in out loud, half the time her father doesn't even remember her name!!!
There are very interesting parts in the book. My favorite parts are sad parts. What impressed me was the way Adeline was abused through out her life,she managed to go college in England with her older brother and became a marvelous writer
I recomend this book to anyone who's a lover of somber books.
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Summary: Chinese Cinderella
Review: It was not long ago that being born female in China was a serious threat to existence: female babies were often literally bundled up and left in the street to die. In the young adult autobiography, Chinese Cinderella, the female infant Yen survives, but tragically her mother dies two weeks after giving birth to her daughter. The third blow in Yen's life is the arrival of a stepmother who rivals the worst stepmothers in any one of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Adeline Yen Mah tells the story of her early life, an unwanted, unloved, uncared for daughter. Her story unfolds during the turbulent years immediately before Mao's Revolution. Yen's family is an affluent, cosmopolitan family, but with the death of her mother, she may as well have been born into the worst poverty. Her older brothers reject her because they blame her for their mother's death. Her father does not even know her birthday and practically forgets her very existence. When he marries a vain, cruel, heartless, domineering woman, it seems Yen's very survival is threatened. The Fates took some pity on Yen by granting her a superior mind: she excels in school, is admired by teachers and students, and is elected President of her class. But when her classmates visit her house to congratulate her, her stepmother and father viciously resent her success. Overnight, they whisk her away to a distant boarding school. There, she is abandoned, with all family contact forbidden. How Yen survives and succeeds despite all of her emotional pain will inspire readers. Adeline Yen Mah tells a wonderful story of triumph and personal endurance. The author's masterful ability to weave history into her personal story only adds to the book's power. Mah allows us to enter into a faraway world in historical China while still connecting to our modern emotions. Her message is universal and will capture readers' hearts. Chinese Cinderella is not to be missed.
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Summary: The Unwanted Princess
Review: Chinese Cinderella is abook about an unwanted girl named Wu Mei.
She has a family who despises her. Her father ignores her, her step-mother hates her, and all of her siblings are very mean to her. Wu mei only has two people who really care for her and that is her aunt Baba and her grandpa Ye Ye. In the story they are the only ones there to give her courage and help to succeed. But in the end her grandpa Ye Ye dies and she is seperated from aunt Baba.
Since Wu mei is hated by parents they send to the communist part of China where it is all falling apart. Everyone is fleeing from there that when she arrived at boarding school she ended up being the only girl there, until her aunt picks her up and takes back to her family, but she is unwelcomed and sent to another school. Then she did something that would finally impress her father, . Overall this story basically saying never to give up because eventually you'll have to succeed.
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Summary: I Used to Be Happy.......
Review: The HappySad Story Chinese Cinderella is an enchanting book about a young girl who has been hated by her family since she was born. All her life she has been trying to be loved from her family and make her father proud. This young girl suffers all kinds of horrors as her life slowly moves on. Adeline( the young girl ), with the help of her friends, eventually overcomes all odds and forfills her childhood dream: entering an university.
I think that this book deserves a 4/5, because although this book could have been a little beter written, it touched the hearts of almost everyone I know. It made me think about how lucky I am to have what I have. Chinese Cinderella is a must read for anyone who feels like he or she is the unluckiest person alive, or anyone who just loves reading.
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Summary: The Chinese Cinderella
Review: In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah tells the story of her hard, and painful childhood. Adeline(Wu-Mei), who caused her mother's death was blamed constantly by her siblings and family. Adeline's stepmother Niang(Jeanne) loathes her and her siblings, by spanking, and yelling at them, and even abandoned Adeline at two boarding schools/orphanage, but meanwhile, her children are spoiled and doesn't get blamed for anything that they did. Adeline, at school is an honor student who wins lots of awards and has lots of friends, but at home the only person that really cares about Adeline is her Aunt Baba, Adeline had had another friend which was a dukling(PLT) that she had gotten from a friend of her father. Adeline Yen Mah wrote this book in words, but it made me feel as if I was actually seeing what and how Adeline felt during hard times, because of the way she described how she felt. In some parts, I felt really happy for Adeline, but in other times I was mad at Niang, Father and her siblings because of how they treated Adeline. I really enjoyed this book, it had lots of both sad and happy parts. Chinese Cinderella was one of ther best books I've ever read.
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Summary: The Unwanted Child
Review: Chinese cinderalla is a book full of drama and some action. It is about a girl named Adeline who is unwanted by her parents. The only people that care about her is her aunt baba, yeye, and third brother. Adeline struggles to prove to her father she's worthy of going to college and finally does in the end after winning a playwriting contest.
Chinese cinderalla is one of the best books I have read and I would recommend it to anyone who loves drama.
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