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ADELINE YEN MAH
she was born and her mother died. -
family matters
Her mom died at her birth. Father remarried a year later, has a step mom who is very evil. She had 3 brothers and one sister who blamed adeline for causing their mom's death. After father's second marriage, she had a step brother and a step sister.
She also had a old grandma(Nai Nai) wholoved her alot. She was usually looked after by Aunt Baba -
tops the class
adeline comes home from school with a silver medal dangling from the left pocket. She had topped the class and could wear it on for a week -
Gets bullied by second brother
while having dinner, her second brother notices that she was wearing a medal on her uniform. He then took adeline's right arm under the table, and gave it a quick hard twist while no one was looking. -
nai nai passes on
nai nai dies -
Adelines first day at school
Adeline is forced to go to a convent school. No body remembers to drop her to school and she starts crying infornt of the cook. the cook then decides to drop her to school. When school was over, no one came to pick her up from there. She then decides to go home by herself but she did not know the way home and gets lost. In fact, she did not even know where she lived. It was dark and she had lost hope when someone touched her shoulder. he helped her and brought her to the telephone. -
arrival in shanghai
Adeline arrives at Shanghai. -
Goin to a medical school
Her father asks her to study medicine despite her wanting to study literature. She goes overseas to study medicine in the end. She gets married and has two children and will live happily ever after -
overcoming the odds
She overcame the odds and studied very well. She wanted to study literature