Book Report on the Chinese Cinderella

Chinese Cinderella Book Report

Summery:

Chinese Cinderella is about I girl named Adeline Yen Mah growing up in an unloving family. Adeline's mother died from an illness caused by her birth. After her mother died, her whole family blamed Adeline for her mothers death and claimed she had "bad blood." The only people who truly loved her was her grandfather, Ye Ye, her grandmother, Nai Nai, and her aunt, Baba. Everyone else would tease her, steal from her, and call her names. Since Adeline and her aunt shared the same room, they became very close. They would talk to each other about when Adeline grew up, her and her aunt would live happily together. After her friends from school secretly fallowed Adeline home to celebrate her winning class president in fifth grade, her parents sent her to a boarding school claiming that her aunt was a bad influence on her. At that time, China was in war and, for safety, everyone was leaving the city where Adeline was going to boarding school. All the students left the school for safety but Adeline's parents didn't care about her enough to take her out of the city. After months of being the only person at school, another aunt of hers found out where Adeline was and took her out of the city and brought her back to her parents house. Immediately afterwards, Adeline was sent to another boarding school right as the war ended. Adeline stayed there for a few years until she had to go home for Ye Ye's funeral. While at home, Adeline talked to her father and convinced him to let her go to collage in England. Even though she had a very sad childhood, she overcame it all to go to medical school.

Location:

Adeline explains that her family and her first lived "in a big house in the French concession of Tia...

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...n idea that moved through mail to wherever the playwriting competition is held. While at school in Tianjin, Adeline's sister "complained so much about having to walk [Adeline] to and from school that grandmother Nai Nai finally told Ah Mao, the rickshaw puller, to pull [them] there and back" (12). This examples people moving because it shows how Adeline and her sister were being pulled from home to school and from school back home, every single day.

Conclusion:

I would recommend this book to a friend because it's a very interesting and well written book. I really enjoyed how the book incorporated history, Chinese culture, and the Chinese language while still keeping the reader entertained. This book is very sad which I didn't enjoy. This book should be kept on the reading list because it includes all the five themes of geography and overall, I really enjoyed it.