Post B, Chinese Cinderella

When my sister recommended this book to me , I wasn’t totally sure I would like it, but after the first chapter I was really interested in Adeline’s story, and how anyone could totally ignore their child or be right out mean to their sister. I could not imagine being Adeline and feeling as if no one loved me, and I felt excited for Adeline when she got to wear a medal for an award at school because for once her father noticed her. When I read this passage I felt really bad for Adeline, but was surprised when she barely had a reaction, “On my way back to my seat, I couldn’t help noticing that of all the prizewinners, I was the only one unaccompanied by anyone from my family.[…] As for Big Sister, she had refused to go to school that day. She’d said she had a stomachache” (pg. 16). I also think that it is horrible Adeline’s sister wouldn’t go to school just because it would make her sister happy to have someone there from her family.

I think that Adeline is used to the fact that no one pays attention to her, but is still very sad. Adeline is always talking about how much she loves school, and I think this will be her way of getting her dad’s attention, even if it makes her siblings even crueler to her. Also because Aunt Baba still cares about her, she will keep Adeline determined to do well in school.