Week 3, Post B, Chinese Cinderella

I am a lot farther in the book, but I still think that the story is still being introduced, and more significant events will begin to happen soon. I am enjoying the book so far, and continue to learn more about Adeline, but I am having trouble totally relating to her because of her age difference(she is about ten), and because of the suffering she is going through. When I was reading a story Adeline wrote about her aunt and her mother, she says, “Every child can enter without a ticket and girls are treated the same as boys. No one is sneered at or scolded without a reason. It’s called Paradise.”(pg 52-53) When I read this it, made me think of what most people would call Paradise. I think most people I know would say it is a place where they can relax, not have to work, and can do what ever they please. I think that it is interesting what Adeline thinks is Paradise, but I wasn’t necessarily surprised that that was what she dreams of, after being treated so harshly by everyone in her family. In the same letter Adeline says, “Though I am really nothing, she makes me believe I am special” (pg 52). I think that Adeline has come to think of herself as nothing because her parents act as if she doesn’t exist. As Adeline became friends with Wu Chun-mei, I was happy for Adeline because she now has someone to talk to and because Wu Chun-mei need help with math, I think it gives Adeline a sense that she is needed and wanted. I think this is very important for everyone, especially Adeline.