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.