Chinese Cinderella #2

The book I am reading is Chinese Cinderella, written by Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲). This book contains 205 pages and I read 41/205 pages (all together) this week. 

                       THEN                       NOW

The main character in the book is Adeline Yen Mah; the author of this book. She is Chinese and she was born in Tianjin, China. Adeline is the fifth child of the family and her family calls her "Wu Mei". The book did not provide her physical traits but in the pictures on the right, Adeline has black, short hair in both of the pictures. From what I have read so far, she seems like a really nice person and very caring because when all her family arrived to Shanghai in the seventh chapter, her younger stepsister did not recognize Niang, (Adeline's stepmother) so Niang got angry and started beating her up. Adeline could not stand seeing her younger stepsister like that so she protested. Her younger stepsister didn't recognize Niang because she was so little when Niang left her for a year. 

"Little sister was now howling at the top of her voice while tears rolled down her little cheeks." (Mah 34)

"'Don't want you!'" she repeated loudly. "'Aunt Baba! Aunt Baba! Tell her to go away! Go away!'" (Mah 34)

"'Keep still!'" Niang screamed futilely again again and again in a piercing voice." (Mah 34)

"'Don't beat her anymore! She is only a baby!'" (Mah 34)