Reading Log for Fiction Sydney V. Best Title: Chinese Cinderella; The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter Author: Adeline Yen Mah Page Range: 1-42 Entry 1: “I did as I was told. Though I was only four years old‚ I understood I should not ask Aunt Baba too many questions about dead mama.” (Mah 3) Question 1: Who is speaking? Where does this particular scene take place (setting?) Explain the character’s thoughts‚ motives‚ and actions (i.e. what does this person
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sweet‚ gracious‚ and beautiful Cinderella marries the prince‚ and as such escapes her miserable life. According to this tale‚ marriage is the ultimate goal in life especially for the woman. In Cinderella‚ all the maidens in town go to the ball just to marry the prince. Even Cinderella desires to go because she sees marriage to the prince as the solution to her problem. “The ideological and psychological pattern and message of either Perrault’s or the Grimms’ Cinderella do nothing more than reinforce
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In the Grimm Brother’s tale of “Rumpelstiltskin”‚ lived a poor miller who had a beautiful daughter. When he crossed paths with a King‚ the miller tried to get friendly with him by telling the King about how his beautiful daughter could spin straw into gold. The King who was greedy at heart took the daughter‚ and brought her to a room where he gave her a day to spin straw into gold. If not she would be sentenced to death. Breaking down into tears‚ fearing for her life‚ a little man opened the door
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Literature Circles Chinese Cinderella I read Chinese Cinderella as my literature circle book. Adeline Yen Mah wrote Chinese Cinderella. Chinese Cinderella is dedicated to all the unwanted children in the world. This book is easy to read and understand. In the double-digit chapters it became more interesting to me as a reader. There were a lot of emotional points to this book. As a young reader it just makes me think of how lucky I am to live the way I do. Chinese Cinderella is based on Adeline Yen
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role of fairytales over time. Cinderella is one of the most well-known fairytales around the world‚ there are between 500 and 1500 different versions of this story currently worldwide. Each story symbolises a different culture and within that culture‚ their Values and attitudes. The story of Cinderella is based around a young lady (the heroine)‚ who suffers in the hands of her step-family after the death of her mother. The heroine is not always referred to as Cinderella‚ in some versions different
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2014 The Brothers Grimm‚ Romanticism‚ and Hansel and Gretel Today when one thinks about the Grimm Brothers‚ they most likely think about how widespread their stories are‚ being that they are told in many homes and have had many adaptations of them. This was not the case however when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first started to write and collect their tales. Many were uncomfortable with them and the very violent scenes they had. People eventually came around and Jacob and Wilhelm became two of the
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Kevyn Johnson 02-16-11 Professor Brick ENG: 101 Chinese Cinderella Summary The Chinese Cinderella story was about a girl named Yehhsien and like the original Cinderella story her mother and her father both died and she was left to her step- mother and step- sisters. Yehhsien’s only friend was a fish her step mom killed. A stranger tells Yehhsien to keep the bones of the fish and when she prayed to the bones she would get what she wanted. One day when the step- mom and her daughters were going
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Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were eager German nationalist who really campaigned for the idea of all German states being integrated as one country. They collected German folk stories because they believed that folktales revealed a national German identity also wanting to revive their countries culture. As the Grimm brothers were collecting and writing their folktales‚ France occupied a good section of German territory setting up its own legal system therefore‚ influencing and transforming the
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Mike Jones The Jacobs Division In determining whether or not to undertake the Silicone-X project‚ Mr. Soderberg should proceed as follows: First he should complete analysis on the Net Present Values and IRR’s of each the options; the labor intensive and the capital intensive. After reviewing the results‚ it would be obvious to Mr. Soderberg that he should recommend that the Jacobs division move ahead with production of the Silicon-X operating with the labor-intensive option. The NPV for the
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Margaret Shuff Mrs. Siegfried AP Language and Composition 12 May 2012 Chinese Cinderella- Analysis The most persuasive and intriguing aspect of an author’s stylistic choices are within the schemes‚ tropes‚ diction and syntax. Adeline Yen Mah‚ author of Chinese Cinderella‚ paints an authentic picture of her childhood in twentieth-century China; Mah’s childhood‚ fraught with painful memories and bad luck‚ accentuates her strength and courage and ultimate triumph over despair. Mah’s stylistic
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