CHINESE CINDRELLA Flashcards
Plot
- Girl attending boarding school in china dreads going home
- when her chauffeur comes to pick her up she wonders who has died.
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It turns out no one has died but instead her father wants to see her in his office.
- She is shocked and nervous. He is proud of her for winning a writing comp cuz it makes him look good.
- She asks if she can go to boarding school in england.
- He says yes and she’s like yay can i be a writer and he’s like no u be a doctor and she’s like kk.
‘leaving school throbbed at the back of my mind like a persistent toothache
simile
shows she doesn’t have a good home life and dreads returning there
shows the contrary to normal school children’s lives because normally kids hate going to school
‘i ran downstairs as in a nightmare, wondering who had died this time’
shows she rarely goes home and has a bad home life, associates going home with tragedy
Similie
Holy of Holies- a place to which i had never been invited.’
presents her dad as a god-like figure
suggest she fears him
is rejected by him because she’s not even allowed in his room without an invitation
‘Is it possible? Am i dreaming? Me, the winner?’
tricolon
rhetorical questions
shows she doubts herself
‘How should I know’
‘Don’t you know anything’
Even the cheshffer is rude to her
She goes home so little that she forgot they moved house
I wondered why he was being so nice
Frightened of her own father
I as white pleased to tell him you are my daughter
Never proud
Makes him loook good
Perhaps I was the only one determine enough to enter
Modest
Going to England is like entering heaven
Similie
Getting as far away from her father and family as possible
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive
Alluded to Wordsworth shows she loved literature and is very intelligent as she is only 14
How does yen mah present her relationship with her fam para 1
She prefers being at school than at home
- thought of leaving school throbbed at the back of my mind like a persistent toothache
- during the short ride home my heart was full of dread
How does yen mah present her relationship with her fam para 2
Has limited communication with her fam, treated a stranger and not respected
- I ran downstairs as in a nightmare wondering who had died this time
- how should I know and don’t you know anything
How does yen mah present her relationship with her fam para 3
She is frightened of her father and they have a very detached and formal relationship
- holy of Holies
- dare I let my guard down?
How does yen mah present her relationship with her fam para 4
Her father is more concerned with his reputation than her happiness which suggests ungenuine love
- I was quite pleased to tell him you are my daughter
- for once he was proud of me
