Chinese cinderella

Question 1

‘Dare I let my guard down?’

Emotional progressions
Distant relationships involving Adeline
Fear when she is waiting to see her father

Answer 1

Internal monologue marks her uneasiness around her father

Metaphorical wall/barrier between herself and her father (defence mechanism)

Shows she is usually defensive

Mistrust within relationship

Rhetorical questions emphasise this and build tension

Question 2

‘During the short drive home, my heart was full of dread and I wondered what I had done wrong’

Emotional progressions
Distant relationships involving Adeline
Dread of leaving school and returning home

Answer 2

Adjective ‘short’ illustrates how close she is to her family home and leaves the reader bemused as to why the family didn’t pick her up

Last part emphasises her fear and apprehensiveness

Immediately relates home to a place that she goes to for her wrong-doing and punishment

Home is not a place she associates with love and family

Metaphor shows dread

Question 3

‘Is it possible? Am I dreaming? Me, the winner?’

Emotional progressions

Answer 3

Shows feelings of excitement, surprise and overjoy

Rhetorical questions are used to express disbelief

Short sentences and punctuation

Tension from previous sentence (‘summoned by her father’) is released and is transformed into excitement

Isolation-she didn’t know she had won nor did her family know she participated

Pathos is created-distance from family

Question 4

‘I had been summoned by Father to enter the Holy of Holies-a place to which I had never been invited’

Traditional family roles and gender roles (especially duty)
Distant relationships involving Adeline
Relationship with father

Answer 4

Verb ‘summoned’ is and order-marks power and authority

Formal tone-distant relationships

Metaphor-‘Holy of Holies’ (most sacred area of temple of Jerusalem