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Step Children In The Book Thief By Adeline

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Niang was cruel from the beginning, treating her older step children with disdain most specifically Adeline. Throughout the book you never learn her actual name, all you know is that the children's grandmother told them to call her Niang the Chinese word for mother. Being only a few years older than the oldest of her new step children had to be embarrassing. When she had her own children they took priority in the household, they got the best toys, clothes, and education. Due to being step children they were unimportant to her so they got subpar clothes, although they did all attend gender specific private schools. Adeline and the other children's mother died shortly after Adeline’s birth and was therefore seen as bad luck by the rest of
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