Chinese Cinderella- Ariel's book review.

Summary Chapter: (10-20)

Adeline's family got ducks for a present. Everyone picked one but she got the last pick and it was the smallest, weakest duck. But she loved it anyways it was her best friend. At dinner a couple nights later her mean step mother wanted a duck, so her brother went upstairs and took hers. The step mother(niaga) took the duck, and gave it to the dog. Her duck died and her heart was crushed. A while later Big sister got married, (it was an arraged marrige) to some guy she just met who was 31. Adeline worried that it would be her fate. She wasn't alowed to have friends over to her house, or visit the. She disowbaded her parents and went to one of her friends birthday party. Adeline got in so much trouble. Her father whipped her and her step mother slapped her. She was very ignored at home, but very loved in school. She became her class president! Her parents got tired of her, and sent her to boarding school far from her home in shaghi, during a war so it was exstremely unsafe. Adeline's step mothers sister took her out of boarding school, and brought her to Hong Kong to join her family. Her step mother then to her to yet another boarding school in Hong Kong. People there call her a scholler, but she's negleacted amd alone.

Connection:

-A connection i have with Adeline is that i got a duck, for my birthday present from my friend sam when i was six. It wouldn't stop quacking at night, so my dad decided to put it outside and leave it outside. This is like Adeline because in the book she got a duck for a present to. But her step mother gave it to their dog, and it got killed. Unlike mine, it ran away.

Reaction:

- My reaction to this part of the book was that i couldn't believe that they treated this young innocent girl like trash. They just sent her away to different boarding schools far away, all alone. What kind of parents would do that?? It's absoultly insane.

-Ariel Brianna Babbitt