Chinese Cinderella - A BRIEF SUMMARY

 Chinese Cinderella

 Chinese Cinderella is the true memoir of Adeline Yen Mah’s childhood, describing her life up until she is fourteen years old. Adeline is born to a wealthy family in Tianjin, China, as their fifth child.Our prescribed text chapter 21,Playwriting competition describes ,Adeline participation in an international English playwriting contest in a magazine .She wrote a play entitled Gone with the Locusts about a young African girl who is kidnapped by bandits, using her heroine to express her own grief built up through her childhood.Six months passed without Adeline hearing any news about the playwriting competition .

One afternoon, while Adeline and her friends are playing Monopoly, one of the nuns calls for her and announces that father’s chauffer has arrived to take her home. Adeline is filled with fear, unsure of what this could possibly mean. Arriving for the first time at her parents’ new home, Adeline is directed to see father in his room. The rest of the family is away and the house is empty. When she enters his room, Father is sitting at his desk, seemingly happy, which fills Adeline with a mixture of relief and suspicion. Father shows her a city newspaper headline announcing that she has won the international playwriting competition and brought great honor to Hong Kong and to father.

Adeline has moved, in her father’s eyes, from a subject of punishment to a subject of praise. Father’s pride in Adeline and his kind words to her are directly the result of her bringing him honor.

Adeline once more asks if she can be sent to England to study, and this time father obliges. However, when she says that she would perhaps like to study literature, father scoffs at this and insists she will become a medical doctor instead, a “foolproof profession” and guarantor of success. Adeline is happy to accept this fate, as it still means she gets to study in England. She thanks father.


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