Chinese cinderella - adeline yen mah

• Chinese Cinderella


  Connotations of neglect, foreshadows theme of being in an unloving family
• Adeline's father is positive with her


  This is an unusual situation, for the most part she would have been left at boarding school
• Adeline can't concentrate on playing Monopoly


  Thinking about leaving school, described as a 'persistent toothache'
• Adeline has a chauffeur to take her home


  Indicates she is wealthy, but also a disconnect with her family
• Adeline has a sense of foreboding about going home


  Thinks someone must have died or she's done something wrong
• Adeline is 'overwhelmed' and 'timid' about being summoned to her father's room


  Suggests a distrust and fear of her father
• Adeline's father smiles and seems in a happy mood when she enters his room
• Adeline is uneasy and wonders if her father is tricking her


  Suggests a lack of trust in her father
• Adeline's father hands her a newspaper with her name in it
• d and I saw he was in a happy mood
• I breathed the small sigh of relief at first


  But became uneasy again when I wondered why he was being so nice
• Thinking is this a giant ruse on his part to trick me

  Dare I let my guard down
• So we've got these continual questions and this distrust that even when her father is nice to her she can't relax
• She thinks there must be something he must be stuck to something there's no way he would just genuinely be nice
• Sit down, sit down he pointed to a chair, don't look so scared
• Here take a look at this they're writing about someone we both know
• I think now he is going to talk about something that she's done


  But it's interesting he says I think which shows a lack of confidence
• Even though this article has her name in it and it's an unusual surname which we find out later he's not 100% confident it's her
• So he can't believe that his daughter is capable of winning a competition
• He handed me the day's newspaper and there in one corner I saw my name Adeline yen in capital letters prominently displayed
• It was announced today that 14 year-old Hong Kong schoolgirl Adeline gen√©e inghean of Sacred Heart Keynesian school cane Road Hong Kong has won first prize in the International playwriting competition held in London England for the 1951 2:52 school year
• It is the first time that any local Chinese student from Hong Kong has won such a prestigious event
• Besides a medal the prize comes with a cash reward of 50 English pounds
• Our sincere congratulations Adeline Yin for bringing honor to Hong Kong we are proud of you
• Is it possible am I dreaming


  Me the winner
• These series of questions reflects her low self-esteem
• I thought is this the big moment I've been waiting for my whole being vibrated with all the joy in the world


  I only had to stretch out my hand to reach the stars
• I waited in silence I did not wish to contradict him
• You will go to England with third brother this summer and you will go to medical school after you graduate you will specialize in obstetric obstetrics women will always be having babies women patients prefer women doctors you will learn to deliver their babies that's a foolproof profession for you don't you agree
• Of course I agreed apparently he had it all planned out as long as he let me go to university in England I was study anything he wished