Summary
When her decides to test the family dog, her big brother chooses her duckling. During the testing the dog breaks her duckling's wing and the wound kills it. Her dad and her stepmother are marrying her sister, who is only seventeen years to someone who is almost twice her age. She feels sad for hr sister and fears that one day they will do th same thing to her. Before her sister's wedding her stepmother takes all the best gift from her sister for herself. During her sister's wedding, all her siblings from her mother's side feels ashamed of their clothing including herself because they are dressed poorly. When her grandaunt tells her stepmother about the gift she gives her big sister, her big sister lies on her aunt just to keep her loyalty to hr stepmother. She tells her that her aunt tells her not to keep it a secret from her since she knows her stepmother will take it away. Her grandaunt is a very successful and educated woman. Her family is high. As a result of sneaking to her friend's house, her stepmother punishes her. After she runs for class president she wins and helds a party without anyone's consentment. Her father thinks that her aunt tolerates her too much and considers of separating them.
Quote
"I'll never forget this kindness on your part. Thanks for the tipoff. You're the best sister in the world and i'll always be indebted to you." (Yen Mah89)
Reaction
I think this is situational irony because this is not her sister's usual behavior toward her. She is usually mean to her and always reminds her that, their mother died because of her. She is always the one who makes her life the most miserable. I think her sister is a hypocryte because she just switches character which is incredible. If she loves her sister the way she says in the quote, she would not lie about her aunt because she knows how much her aunt means to her sister. Her sister is a really self-centered person, she will do anything to get herself out of trouble including lying on someone innocent.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Chinese Cinderella (42-82)
Summary
After Their stepmother gives them new clothes for Chinese new all the sudden, They rest vof her siblings realize that, she shows nepotism toward her children. They all unite to protest against her unfairness. After their unity, she realizes the only way to break them away from each is to take their leader away from who is their big sister. After her big sister moves to the other floor, she betrays them, which makes her a hypocryte. After all that happens Wu Mei begans to realize that her big sister is self-centered. During a picnic at the public park she sees another side of her third brother, a side that proves to her that he can be trustworthy. During the time that her stepmother, her big sister and her father is out, everyone extended their rights. Her big brother takes advantage of eating better type of food, instead of daily vegetables. At school she befriends a girl but never has the strength to tell her about her family. During her second year primary school she wins a news paper contest, she is congradulated by ther teachers and classmates while her brothers tricks her because of her achievement. After the dog bits her, her aunt shows her her safe-deposit box and tell her that she can become anything if dshe continues to get good grades that gives her hope.
Quote
" I was pleased to note that PLT had grown quite big and strong and was holding her own against the rest." (Yen Mah 75)
Reaction
I think this is quote is forshadowing because It says that all the other ducklings do not like her duckling PLT, which is the same thing with her siblings. I think she is proud of her because she is able resist them. After all she does great in school which is her only way to get away from them and get a better. This quote is saying that out of all her siblings she will be the most successful one and some of them may not even succeed in life. This quote projects the character's courage of enduring all these humiliations from her own family.
After Their stepmother gives them new clothes for Chinese new all the sudden, They rest vof her siblings realize that, she shows nepotism toward her children. They all unite to protest against her unfairness. After their unity, she realizes the only way to break them away from each is to take their leader away from who is their big sister. After her big sister moves to the other floor, she betrays them, which makes her a hypocryte. After all that happens Wu Mei begans to realize that her big sister is self-centered. During a picnic at the public park she sees another side of her third brother, a side that proves to her that he can be trustworthy. During the time that her stepmother, her big sister and her father is out, everyone extended their rights. Her big brother takes advantage of eating better type of food, instead of daily vegetables. At school she befriends a girl but never has the strength to tell her about her family. During her second year primary school she wins a news paper contest, she is congradulated by ther teachers and classmates while her brothers tricks her because of her achievement. After the dog bits her, her aunt shows her her safe-deposit box and tell her that she can become anything if dshe continues to get good grades that gives her hope.
Quote
" I was pleased to note that PLT had grown quite big and strong and was holding her own against the rest." (Yen Mah 75)
Reaction
I think this is quote is forshadowing because It says that all the other ducklings do not like her duckling PLT, which is the same thing with her siblings. I think she is proud of her because she is able resist them. After all she does great in school which is her only way to get away from them and get a better. This quote is saying that out of all her siblings she will be the most successful one and some of them may not even succeed in life. This quote projects the character's courage of enduring all these humiliations from her own family.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Chinese cinderella (p. 1-41)
Summary
During Wu Mei first week of kindergarten, she receives an award for her leadership. At home she is only close to one person, her aunt Barbara. Every question she asks her aunt about her mother, she refuses to answer them completely. During a conversation with her grandma, she learned that small feet used to be a custom in China. Someone with big feet would be excluded from doing from other people, the same way her family excludes her from them because they consider her as a curse because her mother died giving birth to her. Both her second brother and her big sister are the ones who expressse their hatred toward her the most. For several weeks she wins a medal consecutively and both and her sister and brother make her life miserable. Even though her stepmother consider all her father's kids inferior to hers, she treats the other better than her. Once they move to Shanghai, to rejoin with their father again after his mysterious disapearance everything changes for the worst. Even though their father still sends them to an exorbitant school to get a good education, he lacks responsabilities to provide for their personal needs.
Quote
"You don't know because you are stupid! And you don't deserve to wear this!" (Yen Mah14).
Reaction
I think this quote expresses a lot of jealousy and as well anger. It shows the anger Her sister has toward her and it is really deep. I was surprise to see how much a sister can hate another base on accomplishment and belief. Her sister is jealous of gift to learn well at school and at the same time hate her because she thinks she is the cause of her mother's death. Based on her sister's belief Wu Mei is the who murdered her mother and gives them a stepmother who will never love them as her own children. i think it is unfair to blame a child for something she did not do and make hr/him struggle during their childhood. She was a baby and she could not hit a fly which makes her innocent of all their accusation
During Wu Mei first week of kindergarten, she receives an award for her leadership. At home she is only close to one person, her aunt Barbara. Every question she asks her aunt about her mother, she refuses to answer them completely. During a conversation with her grandma, she learned that small feet used to be a custom in China. Someone with big feet would be excluded from doing from other people, the same way her family excludes her from them because they consider her as a curse because her mother died giving birth to her. Both her second brother and her big sister are the ones who expressse their hatred toward her the most. For several weeks she wins a medal consecutively and both and her sister and brother make her life miserable. Even though her stepmother consider all her father's kids inferior to hers, she treats the other better than her. Once they move to Shanghai, to rejoin with their father again after his mysterious disapearance everything changes for the worst. Even though their father still sends them to an exorbitant school to get a good education, he lacks responsabilities to provide for their personal needs.
Quote
"You don't know because you are stupid! And you don't deserve to wear this!" (Yen Mah14).
Reaction
I think this quote expresses a lot of jealousy and as well anger. It shows the anger Her sister has toward her and it is really deep. I was surprise to see how much a sister can hate another base on accomplishment and belief. Her sister is jealous of gift to learn well at school and at the same time hate her because she thinks she is the cause of her mother's death. Based on her sister's belief Wu Mei is the who murdered her mother and gives them a stepmother who will never love them as her own children. i think it is unfair to blame a child for something she did not do and make hr/him struggle during their childhood. She was a baby and she could not hit a fly which makes her innocent of all their accusation
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