Chinese Cinderella by LEANNA GERILIV https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu By: Adeline Yen Mah en-us 2018-12-03 19:46:30 UTC 2025-09-25 03:15:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Bibliography gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/311997458 Mah, Adeline Yen. Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter. Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1999.]]> 2018-12-06 19:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/311997458 #1 Story about Adeline gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314909516 Adeline is 4-6 years old in the story she's telling about herself. I can tell that she's 4-6 because on the first chapter paragraph 4 it states "You only started kindergarten a week ago."(pg. 12) This shows us that she is 4-6. Adeline has 9 siblings and 2 step siblings. I also found out through google that she was born on November 30th 1937. father married a 17 year old after Adeline's mom died. Everyone blames Adeline's birth for the death of their mother. ]]> 2018-12-15 18:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314909516 #2 Adeline's family history gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314910223 Adeline and her family live in Tianjin. A year after her mother's death her father married a 17 year old. Soon after, they had 2 kids. A boy and a girl. Niang (the step mother) cares nothing about her stepchildren. (pg.16)Adeline's siblings didn't care about Adeline too because they said that she was the one that caused mama's death. This makes it difficult for Adeline to advance her place within the family. ]]> 2018-12-15 18:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314910223 #3 Adeline and Aunt Baba gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314911075 Aunt Baba is like Adeline's mother. After her mother's death, aunt Baba has been taking care of Adeline. Aunt Baba once told Big sister that if it wasn't for Adeline their mother would still be alive. With this in her head Adeline tries to hatch on to Aunt Baba and they have a deep bond together.  ]]> 2018-12-15 18:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314911075 #4 Adeline's walk to school gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314941107 Now the story takes place in the middle of winter. Adeline is still in school and at this time, she and Big Sister are attending the same missionary school. Because of Big Sister’s constant complaints about walking to school, they’re taken everyday by the rickshaw puller, Ah-Mao. Ah-Mao is a kindly character, but is “fiercely protective”. Adeline's father bought the rickshaw puller. And that is how they walked to school]]> 2018-12-16 05:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314941107 #5 Adeline's father's job proposal. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314941111  Tianjin is under Japanese occupation, the Japanese soldiers demand the Chinese behave subserviently or face dire consequences. When the soldiers approach Father with a business proposal, he decides it's the perfect time to escape from Tianjin. He leaves, taking Niang and Fourth Brother with him. Adeline feels unwanted]]> 2018-12-16 05:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314941111 #6 Adeline's non-existent walk home after school gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314941112 Adeline is excited to return to school, this time attending Sacred Heart Missionary School, but she wasn't able to make it to school on time since her family has once again forgotten about her existence. Luckily, she’s able to catch a ride from the reluctant cook and makes it just in time. After school, she is left lonely as well and with no one there to take her home, Adeline struggles to find her way in her brand new surroundings. Late in the evening, a kindly shopkeeper notices the lost little Adeline and shelters her in a restaurant until Adeline can phone home. Her family truly had forgotten about her existence and the only advice Father had to offer was to learn to read a map.]]> 2018-12-16 05:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/314941112 #7 Family Reunion gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317562904 Adeline has a family reunion with her Ye Ye, aunt Baba, third brother and little sister. It seemed like Adeline was happy about it. Little sister does not go to Niang because she doesn't really know her. This probably made Niang really upset because her own blood children would not go to her. After little sister started crying and trying to get out of her mother's hands, Niang took her down and started to beat her. No one said a word until Adeline spoke up and told her to stop. After that, Niang stopped and screamed at her "Get out!!" "I shall never forgive you! Never! Never! Never! You'd better watch out from now on! You will pay for your arrogance!" (pg. 67)]]> 2019-01-05 06:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317562904 #8 Tram gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317563235 Adeline's Ye Ye gave money to the kids to ride the tram to and from school. After a few weeks he spent all his money and had nothing left. During a dinner one night Aunt Baba said that she wanted to get a job so that she doesn't have to keep on taking money from Niang and Adeline's father. Adeline's father said "You don't need to work like a commoner, you have everything you need here." (pg. 71)Adeline's father also said that if the children wanted money they would have to ask Niang. Adeline was the only one not to ask and always walk to school instead of taking the tram.]]> 2019-01-05 06:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317563235 #9 Chinese New Year gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317563542 When it was Chinese new year, Niang ordered new clothes from a tailor and had him make new stuff for all the kids. The sisters wore different dresses but the brothers were given the same suit but in different sizes. The kids tried to write their father a letter in English so that Niang was not going to understand. Their letter explained how they felt like they were treated unfair. But to their surprise their plan screwed up when they saw that Niang was standing on the opposite side of the door and listened to everything they said.]]> 2019-01-05 07:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317563542 #10 Adeline meets her new best friend gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317626460 Adeline makes a new friend named Wu Chun-mei. They were both really good at sports and got together well. When it began to pour and Adeline had to walk home alone Wu Chun-mei drove past her and asked her to come inside the car so that they could drive her home. ]]> 2019-01-06 04:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317626460 #11 Adelines treasure gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317626607 One of Niangs friends came over and let the kids choose presents from him. They were all presents of a chicken. Adeline was the last to choose so she got the smallest bird. She named it PLT which is short for "Precious Little Treasure".(pg. 86) Adeline really grows a bond with her chick and they become each others best friend. When her father comes home and tells her brother to pick a bird to let Jackie "dog" kill, he picks PLT and PLT dies. ]]> 2019-01-06 04:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317626607 #12 Adeline finds out about arranged marriage gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317626829 Adeline's big sister is getting an arranged marriage to a 31 year old local person and she is only 17. Adeline says "I'll simply will have to run away if Niang forces my to an arranged marriage." (pg. 97) This shows us that she is really scared of having an arranged marriage.]]> 2019-01-06 05:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317626829 #13 Adeline's first birthday parties gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317627089 In the summer of 1948 Wu Chun-mei starts to take Adeline to her house for birthday parties. This is a new experience for her since her step mother doesn't let Adeline do anything. Adeline states "I could hardley sleep the night before the party." (pg. 99) This shows us that she was really excited to go to the party and spend her time with her best friend. ]]> 2019-01-06 05:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/317627089 Connection to November 30th 1937 gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367132 Something that happened in this year lint Frank was Awarded the 3rd Heisman Trophy. ]]> 2019-01-19 06:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367132 Connection to Tianjin under Japanese occupation. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367238 This happened in the year 1942. Something that also happened this year was that the United States lead its first air raid attack on the Japanese main islands during April in World War II]]> 2019-01-19 07:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367238 Connection to the summer of 1948. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367425 In the summer of 1948 the U.S. and Britain gathered water, and medicine on June 26th to the citizens of West Berlin following the Soviet Blockade.]]> 2019-01-19 07:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367425 #14 Class President gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367476 Adeline's friend put her in for one of the candidates for class president. But with the birthday party and all they forgot all about it. On pg. 106 and 107 she states "However, her birthday and all the other plans had driven all else from our minds, and we had forgotten all about it." After she got up to say her speech she started talking about how amazing her best friend would be if she became class president. By the end of the next day Adeline became class president.  ]]> 2019-01-19 07:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367476 #15 Adeline gets sent to boarding school. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367769 One day Adeline's father came home and said that Adeline would have to go to boarding school. Adeline was really sad that her father was sending her away and that she would leave everything behind. ]]> 2019-01-19 07:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367769 #16 Adeline in Hong Kong. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367849 Adeline made fast friends with Reine's (her aunt) two children, Claudine and Victor. For the first time in her life, she was treated like she counted. Reine was kind and caring and treated Adeline just like she did her own children. When they arrived at her father's apartment in Hong Kong, neither her father or Niang greeted her directly. The one bright spot was that Ye Ye was there. She sensed a difference in his attitude and finally figured out that it was "defeat." He had given up.]]> 2019-01-19 07:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322367849 #17 Adeline improves her ability to write. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322455273 In the summer of 1951 at the school that Adeline has been attending, Adeline really began developing her ability to write.Her ability to write and also her ability to learn very easily helped her and she was able to move up a grade. However this was looked negatively by the older girls. "Instead of trying to memorize every book in here, you'd be more popular if you get yourself some pretty dresses instead" (pg. 165). Though the older girls tended to make fun of her there were still the girls that looked up to her. "She has sort of a special spirit, and it's a persons inner core that counts" (pg. 170).]]> 2019-01-20 06:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322455273 #18 End of school term. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322455678 On the last day of school, Adeline and her group of friends, that are leaving school for the holidays,  spend some time  chatting about the lesson that they had in class about the word “galvanism”. After her friends and everyone leaves home for summer 
holidays and as usual nobody ever comes to take Adeline home. Therefore she had to stay at school for Summer holidays. It was a tough time for her that she was left behind.
]]> 2019-01-20 06:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322455678 Connection to the summer of 1951 gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322455704 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul]]> 2019-01-20 06:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322455704 #19 Adeline is left behind. gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322456087 After a few weeks Adeline was left alone after her best friends left too. She got really sick. On page 177 she states "ended up vomiting." Mary Suen was the only one who came to visit her when Adeline was sick. A few days later her third brother came and Adeline was overjoyed to see him. March 1952 Adeline's grandfather died. And Adeline was taken back home]]> 2019-01-20 06:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322456087 Connection to March 1952 gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322456858 Antoine Pinay forms French government]]> 2019-01-20 06:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/322456858 #20 FINAL POST!!!!! gerillea000 https://padlet.com/gerillea000/lha3606b0zbu/wish/323192971 1. Story about Adeline
2. Adeline's family history
3. Adeline and Aunt Baba
4. Adeline's walk to school
5. Adeline's father's job proposal
6. Adeline's non-existent walk home after school.
7. Family Reunion
8. Tram
9. Chinese New Year
10. Adeline meets her new best friend
11. Adeline's treasures
12. Adeline finds out about arranged marriages
13. Adeline's first birthday party
14. Class President
15. Adeline gets sent to boarding school
16. Adeline in Hong Kong
17. Adeline improves her ability to write
18. End of school term.
19. Adeline is left behind and later gets picked up

EVENTS:
November 30th 1937 - Frank was Awarded the 3rd Heisman Trophy.

1942 - United States lead its first air raid attack on the Japanese main islands during April in World War II

1948 - U.S. and Britain gathered water, and medicine on June 26th to the citizens of West Berlin following the Soviet Blockade.

1951 - Chinese forces recapture Seoul

1952 - Antoine Pinay forms French government

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