Adeline Yen is the fifth daughter among her siblings. Just after giving birth to her, her mother passed away due to some complication when delivering her. As a result, she is marked as the “bad luck” child and thus, becomes the most unwanted and unloved child at home. She is constantly bullied by her stepmother, Niang and even her own siblings. She is always being treated unfairly and she is the one always to be blamed to whenever things go wrong. In order to gain her parents’ attention and love, she studies hard to be excelled in academic but her outstanding results never gain her any changes in her parents’ attitude towards her. Her feelings and welfare are never being taken into consideration and she is being left out all the time. She continuously tries to win her parents heart but in vain. After graduating in London in Medicine, she follows her fathers’ words to work in his friend’s company despite the low and unreasonable salary as she wants to win his favour. However, her wish never come true as her stepmother, Niang never pleased to see her having even a slightly close relationship with her father. Overall, this is a story about a child journey in seeking love and care from her parents.
In the olden days, sex discrimination is very obvious, especially in the Chinese family. Sons have the privilege for everything as they carry a vital responsibility in ensuring the continuance of the family generations. Daughters will be disowned automatically once they are married and for this reason, once they reached the marriage age, they will be get rid from the family as soon as possible to reduce the family burden. Besides, woman is considered as a lower class people. Husband is dominant at home and they treat their wife rudely. Domestic violence happens every day and women are always the victims. Money is also an important divider in the society. Different quality of services is given according to their status and the amount of money they possessed. The rich will be treated like king while the poor will be treated like slaves. Corruption is rampant and money can be used to solve everything. Therefore, people are willing to betray their own siblings just to get a greater share of their late father property.
Most of the characters in this story possess bad characteristics but the most I dislike is Niang, Adeline’s stepmother. First and for most, she is not a good mother at all. She is biased in taking care of her children, even to her own offspring. She loves her son, Franklin more than her daughter, Susan because Franklin has a higher opportunity to inherit her husband business and property. Besides, she is a woman who always has bad intention in her mind. She cannot stand looking at others having close relationship with their family members. She does all kind of things to destroy the close bond between them. The more they hate each other, the more delightful she is. She is also a merciless woman. She does not feel guilty at all in mistreating her children. She shows no sympathy to children who have lost their mother and have no freedom to do everything. She is self-centered. She cares for no one except for money. She is greedy and it’s her bad personal qualities that cause her have no friends to pay their last respect to her during her funeral.
Everyone needs love regardless his or her age and gender. Therefore, we should show love and care to everyone so that they will realize they are not the unimportant one in a family or society. Besides, there are many successful people in this world but all of them have different family background. It is not necessary that those who come from an unhappy family will succeed in their life. It’s all depends on the person perseverance and hard work. Therefore, we should not give up too easily even if we grow up in an environment which does not guarantee much for our future. We must stay strong all the time because no one can spur up our spirit to achieve our goal in life except ourselves.
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