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George Santayana's Chinese Cinderella

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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” This quote is by George Santayana. In the book Chinese Cinderella Adeline was never loved by her family. Everyone felt like she wasn't their. Adeline always tried to be nice to her family, but they never really noticed she was trying to do that. This is why I think Chinese Cinderella is a depressing story. There are three main different reasons that I think it is a depressing story. The first reason is that Adeline gets abused many times when she was a child. The second reason is that Adeline gets separated from Aunt Baba. The third reason is Adeline father forgets Adeline's name. There are many other depressing things that happened in the book, for example when PLT gets bitten by Jackie, but those
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