Chinese Cinderella
Chinese Cinderella, as the name Chinese, the back ground of this memoir is placed on China, Tianjin. The story is about a little girl who was only aged seven, and she was hurt by all of her family members. They might not act very cruel all the times to her but their words hurt her heart many times than they can ever imagine. The last paragraph in the first chapter, aunt Baba said, “Mama died giving birth to you. If you had not been born, Mama would still be alive. She died because of you. You are bad luck.” She didn’t seem to be shocked. She just accepted the situation. Another reason why she was not gruesome at all would be because every day, her family talks about their mom and point finger to her.
Getting those bad visions from her family certainly would have felt the pain of her heart breaking into pieces even though she was a child. One of her hard parts that made a crack on her heart is when her grandmother, Nai Nai passed. She had died from a massive stroke. Nai Nai wasn’t very lovable to her but she was the one who cared about her the most in her family. But since she had passed and aunt Baba was not available to take care all of the children, she took big sister, big and second brother and her to meet her father which seemed to be a very wealthy guy. When they entered his gigantic house, which was located at Shanghai, one young looking woman was standing and saying that she is their step mother from now. They had a very brief greetings and she rapidly introduces the house and tells them what not to do. She seems to be very mean only to her step children.
In her first day of school, she had to walk all the way to her school because her step mother doesn’t let them ride a fancy car nor transportation like a bus. She complained about it but she didn’t. She was too complained about it but she didn’t. She was too young to realize all the fact that her step mother hated. But the stepmother acts very kindly and lovely to her own children.
While her heart was getting cold because of no interest and love from her family, she got a very good grade on her school grade. And her dad complemented her with an eye that she never felt before. She naturally felt that studying is the only way to get attention from her dad. And also her grade she was getting from the school was getting higher and higher. She couldn’t wait going to her school, because although she gets all the pain and no love from her family at her house, at the school, every one treats her equally and many complements from her friends and teachers about her writing skills. Her writing skills got better as the time kept passing by and her dream grew bigger to be an author but her dad didn’t allow that. But as a result she became a writer.
My favorite quote or line in this memoir is “Wisdom comes from suffering.” This quote really touched my heart and it made me think again about my suffering. But I guess I’m too young to realize the true meaning of the quote. Besides Yen Mah she proved the quote in her life and showed people that she can be happy even though she doesn’t have a good child hood. She made her dream become true and that’s a lot to learn from her.
The memoir about her childhood is a lot like the Cinderella story who Charle perrautlt is the author. The parts that were similar were: which her siblings didn’t like her and also her step mother hated her step children but she loved her own children and she gives everything that her child wants to have or eat. To add on, the part when her step mother treats her as a maid was very similar. This why the title is named the ‘Chinese Cinderella’ and when someone reads it, they will feel very familiar to the story but written in an oriental way.
When I finished the book, I thought that I’m a lucky girl who has a family who loves and care about me. I had some cultural common with the author especially the background of the story. Like the traditions and also cultural foods such as mandoo. To keep writing what I thought, was that she might be a bad luck but at the end (not the end of the book), she have her children and her dream of being an author came true. So I think that she is a winner at the end and also very sure about what she is doing and to make it become true like her dream, which was being an author which her father really didn’t like it and preferred to be a doctor or a pharmacist.
I think that Adeline Yen Mah learned that no one had the right to conquer her, and to stop her from following her dreams. I think she realized that she could be whatever she wanted to be if she only had the confidence and the strength and believed in herself. I think she also learned that as long she's happy, it doesn’t matter what her family thinks of her, because they were always unsupportive of her dreams.
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