Adeline in the would always display her resolved quality throughout her lugubrious life. No-one could deprive of our own right of freedom when we hold this fundamental principle-determination to welcome every oncoming challenges in our life. We have to work hard to accomplish the best decision for our future when we realised that the inability of our own ,had inevitably , become the frustrating obstacle to the promising success. The writer of has , therefore , proven to us the reliability of determination in assuring the auspicious achievement in the future. Adeline has told us this through her struggling life that eventually help her to develop her very own living and desirous career. Instead of just giving in to obey the destiny of being a defeated teenager, she always opposed the thinking that all women should remain in the traditional way and have to forcefully accept the arranged marriage without having an opportunity of receiving the education. However, Adeline has eventually succeeded in accomplishing her dream of being a triumphant physician and renowned writer.

The focus of this memoir is Adeline's struggles to be loved by a family that treated her cruelly. The text gives a more detailed account of how each child is treated. By the way, Adeline beat the odds. For instance, despite her emotional abuse and isolation that she suffered at the hands of her stepmother, she needed to overcome the feelings of worthlessness and abandonment. Thus, she studied very hard and always achieved ‘A graded’ for every subject so that her father would praise her. As the saying goes, someone is willing to do things not in their own interests is to gain the acceptance and affection of a loved one.

I really dislike the character of Niang in “Falling Leaves” because she was so cruel and manipulative. The story was like this.In 1937, Adeline Yen Mah's mother died after giving birth to her.Her father soon remarried a beautiful, young Eurasian woman who was cruel and manipulative that she was comparable to the "wicked stepmother" in the story of Cinderella. She treated all five of her stepchildren badly, but saved her real hatred for Adeline. Jeanne Prosperi Yen always manipulated her husband and children or even sometimes at home she would verbally and physically abused the children who she did not like; and she used money to control the family dynamics even after her death.

This book is a look at a culture and a country. In Chinese culture, where people are ranked by sex, social status, and order of birth, female newborns always wrapped in newspaper lying by the roadside, showing cultural bias towards women. Inflation at that time was so high that one dollar would buy a million Chinese yuan. In addition, there was sharp class division and beggars were rampant. Adeline speaks of the attitude of the Chinese people towards Westerners and about racism, which they faced not just in America but within their own country. In this ever-changing world, knowledge is always proven to be the greatest and most powerful weapon to gain respect from the people who used to look down on you. As the culture of wisdom describe, ‘ When your enemy attack you with the most subversive weapon, use your knowledge to defend yourself. This is how Adeline had taught us to survive in the bias and certificate-based world

Based on the theme of journey in “Boy”, the text decribes the incredible beauty of Norway and several stories in section Llandaff Cathedral School, St Peter’s , Repton and Shell. The book also anecdotes about a child’s opinion which will make us smile or even laugh aloud and it is full of family love which we can see there are a lot of real life photos of Roald Dahl and his family. But Roald Dahl doesn't write this book only to tell about his childhood, but to make people award of the school system, and how it was to be a young boy in the old days.

The main issue in “Boy” is a time back when there were no computers or televisions, and when Roald Dahl wanted diversion, he needed to went outside and look for it, instead of sitting down in a chair or couch and waiting to be entertained by a box. This fact took Roald back to when he had to make his own adventures, an era that sounded like one of the most interesting stories to be generated. In addition, the book brings the readers the sense of a fantastic childhood, surrounded by family love, affection and well being besides telling the people the English school system in the old days.

To my view, the character which I dislike in “Boy” is the Math’s teacher who is irresponsible in his teaching career. He was a Math teacher but did not know anything about Maths and spent most of the time telling exciting stories that never had anything to do about Maths during his classes. In order that none of the other teachers discovered this, the teacher used to write out long equations on the board but never explained them to the class. Added to the above, I do not think many teachers today would approve of his teaching methods. This is just an irresponsible action and the attempts to cover his own weaknesses.

I learn from this book that live is tough, and not always fair. For example, how Captain Hardcastle gave Roald a stripe, accused him for something he didn't do ), but the spirit to enjoy the life and make the best of all despite the worse condition was, is really a very good example for all of us. This can be seen through how Roald’s father could do almost everything with only one hand, and how his mother could still very calm to take her little son to the hospital with the nose nearly completely cut off, and the way his mother supported Roald went to Africa, although he was her only son and there's no chance to visit each other for some years.

Name : Cheang Hui Ji
Class : Accountancy
Title : Desert Flower


Desert Flower follows Waris through her childhood under the nomadic culture of the Somali desert. It is this strength that enabled Dirie to survive from female genital mutilation, her flight across the desert to avoid an arranged marriage, living as a servant in England, and finally achieving success as a model. She is able to tell the remarkable story of her life and about the struggles that women still face in many other cultures today. Waris Dirie now works with the United Nations to stop the practice of female genital mutilation and if her story can help to achieve this goal in any small way, then this book has achieved its theme of her journey.


This book raises main issues such as the tough life that females have in Somalia, female circumcision and arranged marriages. It also draws attention to the abominable practice of female genital mutilation that leads to the death of many girls as they bleed to death, are infected by bacteria (tetanus) or don't survive the psychological shock and to constant pain and suffering for those who survive it.


I admire Waris for her courage and her spirit to struggle for survive under what given condition was. This can be proved when Waris runs away from her family in Somalia to avoid an arranged marriage, walking by herself across the desert to Mogadishu, where her family finds her work as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London. Waris then meets famous photographer Donaldson while working as a cleaner at a fast food restaurant, finds a modeling agent in Lucinda and becomes an international success. But with no papers, she is forced to enter into an unhappy marriage with odd-job man Neil or be sent back to war-torn Somalia. And now she joins the United Nations to enlighten the people about the female circumcision and stop that sort of practice.


The book has developed my understanding that FGM is not ubiquitous in Africa, in fact, most Africans don't even know that it's there. It is just concentrated mainly in East African countries like Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Djibouti, and some areas in West Africa like Mali for example. Besides, the practice of female circumcision or FGM is not well-understood by Europeans and Americans. Through Waris’s experiences , women are the backbone of Africa; they do most of the work but they are powerless to make decisions and have no say, sometimes not even in whom they will marry. This fact helps me as a woman to be thankful of the rights and freedoms I have today. Perhaps my life would be different if I was born in a different country with different cultures.

Name: Cheang HUI Ji
Class: ACCOUNTANCY
Title: Gulliver’s Travel

How does the text relate to the theme of a journey?

Gulliver’s travel is an amazing commentary on society as a whole, human nature, and the universal political animal. The theme of this book is about individual and society. As the matter of fact, most of the time during Gulliver’s travels, he felt isolated from the societies he visited. He did not fit in anywhere, and even during his brief returns to England, he expressed no wish to stay and left as quickly as he could. This has led to some critics calling Gulliver's Travels the first novel of modern alienation. For instance, the country of the Houyhnhnms was unique among the nations Gulliver visited because of its subjugation of the individual to the good of society as a whole, which led to an orderly and well-run nation. The price was that there was little room for human-style individuality. Nobody can become attached to their children because they may be assigned to another family that has a shortage of children; mates are chosen not by individual preference. Only during his stay with the Houyhnhnms did Gulliver wish to assimilate into society. More seriously, the Houyhnhnms decided that he was not one of them and wanted to expel him. The only society to which Gulliver wished to belong would not have him. Swift raised questions about the conflict between the individual and society, but did not resolve them.

What is the main issue in the text?

The main issue of Gulliver’s Travel are love and kindness which are absent in many of the lands that Gulliver visited. However, Glumdalclitch, the nine-year-old daughter of the Brobdingnagian farmer, was a major exception. She took care of Gulliver all the time while he stayed in Brobdingnag. For example, when Gulliver went to town with the farmer's family, "She carried me on her lap, in a box tied about her waist," Gulliver said. "The girl had lined it on all sides with the softest cloth she could get, well quilted underneath, furnished it with a bed, provided me with linen and other necessaries, and made everything as convenient as she could." Her treatment of Gulliver was not the same with the way of people in both Gulliver's fictional world and the real world in England and other European countries treated him.

What quality do you admire or dislike in a character?

The character that I like is Houyhnhnms who were the horses in the land of Houyhnhnm. They were the noble, beautiful, clean, and honest species, and looked to the yahoos as inferior slaves. They loved all Houyhnhnms equally, enabling them to choose their partners not according to love or passion but according to genetics — that was, which pairings would produce the healthiest offspring. They gave their children education communally and governed themselves democratically. Gulliver learned all about their culture and how it was ruled by reason. He even began to act like them, and when he was forced to leave the land, he was brokenhearted.

How does the text develop your understanding of the world?

Through this novel, I have learned that there is no point to fight over some small things in this society. For instance, I have learned the lesson which showed the stupidity in the war between England and France and also every war which starts over a stupid reason, I also want to point out the meaningless incourtlife were they do nothing but waste the states money. Besides, it also made the people suffer from that war. I also understand that the human race often takes things for granted, not considering that there could be some one or something getting hurt. In addition, I have learned that never-ending live is not as good as we think since the immortals suffered not only all the problems of old age, and they were depressed, vain and incapable of friendship. There is nothing sick about the death as it is a part of life.