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