1. Book by Adeline Yen Mah Monika Flores Period 5 11/13/13
Chines Cinderella
Book by
Adeline Yen Mah
Monika Flores
Period 5
11/13/13

2. Introduction True story of an unwanted daughter
Most of her family never loved her
Only aunt baba (her Niang’s (mother) best friend) Nai Nai (grandmother), and Ye Ye (grandfather)
Her second Niang despised her the most
Family thought she was bad luck
Her Niang died the day she was born
Grew up in many places in China
Tianjin
Shanghai
Hong Kong
She never had a good life because she wasn’t loved by her family

3. Setting Tianjin Hong Kong Shanghai Adeline was born
Moved from there at age 4
Hong Kong
Lived there until the age of 11
Had a lot of friends that loved and cared for her
Niang started to hit the children
Shanghai
Was sent away to Shanghai
Went to school there without family
Didn’t really have friends – Girls bullied her
Hong Kong

4. Characters Protagonist Adeline Yen Mah Antagonist Niang (Step mother)
Nice little girl who lives a miserable life.
Second youngest out of & total children (2 siblings are half sibings)
Often lonely and sad.
Always had a kind heart.
She is a super smart student. When she was in kindergarten, she was the top of the class.
When she moved and went to the other school, she skipped a lot of grades. By the age of 14, she went to collage.
Antagonist
Niang (Step mother)
Niang is a caring step mother, at first.
When someone special in he family dies, she becomes violent
Instead of a heart, she has a black hole inside her. She starts to hit her step-children and even her own children if what she ordered in not done right or at all.
Is a young 21-yeaar-old women that always gets her way
Loves fashionable clothes and items of any sort.
Gives great things to her own children (2 out of 7 total) and poor things to the other 5. Especially Adeline.

5. Other Characters Aunt Baba Nai Nai Caring Loving
The one in the family who took care of Adeline
Older sister of Adeline’s father
One out of three people who love Adeline
Nai Nai
Loves Adeline
Special
Dies when Adeline is 4
Tightened feet
Pretty sad childhood

6. More Characters Ye Ye Father Nice Caring
Third and final who loved Adeline
Very strict on Chinese culture
Father
Mean
Never talked to Adeline until she was Worse father EVER!!!
Forgot her name
Forgot her birthday
Always gives stuff to his other children except Adeline
Always forgets she is even born

7. More Characters Lydia (Big sister) Big brother (George)
Older sibling
Mean sister
Talks a lot of English
Maries at age 14 with 30-year-old
Hardly talks to Adeline
Big brother (George)
Second oldest sibling
Mean
Bullies Adeline
Goes to college with second brother
Second Brother (Edger)
Ignores Adeline a lot
Makes her cry a lot

8. More Characters Third Brother (James)
Mean to Adeline When siblings an parents are looking
Nice to her when not
Only sibling Adeline was close to
Bullies her a lot
Goes to college with Adeline
Fourth Younger brother (Franklin)
Half brother
Doesn’t like talking to Adeline
Niang’s first son of her own
Really mean
Little sister (Susan)
Half sister
One of Niang’s pride treasure
Talks o Adeline a little bit
Mean/nice
Cutest in the Family

9. Favorite Character Aunt Baba Brave Always Caring Nice
Only one who cared for Adeline
Brave
Stood for Adeline for everything
Never let her cry alone
Never let her down in her life

10. Beginning Adeline comes home from school Nai Nai tells a story
Only Aunt Baba welcomed her home
Siblings start to bully her at dinner
Nai Nai tells a story
Her feet got shrunken to be “Attractive”
If feet were small, they would be attractive. Normal an big feet wouldn’t
Nai Nai Dies
Children slept with her dead body that night
Chinese Tradition
Moves to Hong Kong
Niang, Father, and Third brother only at first
Rest of family moves in couple years later
Niang Starts hitting her children
Everybody knows the new one in charge

11. Middle Niang sends the children to privet schools
New rules (Very strict)
No friends are allowed o the new house
Except Niang’s own children
No one is allowed to go to friend’s house
Adeline Goes to Shanghai
Sent away by family
School
Spends her life there with no family
Has no friends – Enemies

12. End Ye Ye dies Father decides to let Adeline go to collage
Adeline goes back to family for that one event for second time
Father decides to let Adeline go to collage
She is only 14 years old and skipped a bunch of grades
Father felt bad for what was happening to her
Naing knows nothing
Niang never knew about her from there (In this book at least)

13. Recommendation
I truly loved the book. One of he best books I have ever read.
Sad and troubling
Parts that seem hopeful
A lot of pain (sad pain)
Lots of hope in the end
I recommend it
To people who love sad books

14. Theme Life is never easy Sad events will always come your way
Never let yourself down in harsh times
Good will come your way one day
Sad events will always come your way
Miserable life is part of life
Something will go your way
Never give up
Life is harsh, but you have to pass all the bad things in life to get to the good

15. Adeline Yen Mah Doctor Lives in California Author
Graduated Medical School in England
Lives in California
Has 2 children and Husband
Author
Writes books about herself
Writes in California and England

16. Books Adeline Wrote Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Chinese Cinderella: The Mystery of the Song Dynasty Painting
China: Lands of Dragons and Emperors
Falling Leaves
Watching the Tree
A Thousand Pieces of Gold

17. Other Books in Series A Thousand Pieces of Gold
Shares the wealth of Chinese civilization with Western readers
Adding stories from her own life.
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Takes martial-arts school and joins a secret dragon society
Take a dare to rescue troops from WWII
Bravery lives in her