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.
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Friday, October 8, 2010
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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