Chinese Cinderella Book Review - 910 Words

The book â€Å"Chinese Cinderella† by Adeline Yen Mah is a heart touching true story about an unwanted girl named Adeline, who longed for the compassion and love of her parent’s. While giving birth to Adeline, her mother passed away from child birth complications, leaving her father with five children to care for, including a new born. Four years later, her grandmother Nai Nai also passed away leaving her father no choice but to remarry. Soon after, her father met and fell deeply in love with a woman named Niang, who becomes Adeline’s new stepmother. Adeline’s father and Niang had two children of their own, a boy and a girl, as well as Adeline and her three older brothers and older sister. A year later, Adeline’s family moved to Shanghai†¦show more content†¦Adeline, by this time, had matured a great deal, becoming independent and focused on her school work. She had discovered that even though they were her family, and she did love them, she was in control of her happiness and she alone could decide her future. During this time Adeline excelled in her school work, especially in writing. She wrote a play entitled â€Å"Gone with the Locusts† and entered it into a playwright competition. Two weeks later, an unusual event occurred, her father showed up at her boarding school to pick her up. Adeline was confused and wondered why the attention from her father. She soon found out that she had indeed won first place in the playwright competition, a very prestigious award, including a cash reward of fifty English pounds. For the first time, Adeline felt as though she had made her parents proud, still wanting more than anything to please them, and desiring to achieve a higher level of education. 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