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Title: Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka ISBN: 0-440-41599-3 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (32 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: read it and love it!
Comment: Ties that bind, ties that break
By: Lensey Namioka
An excellent story about the true tradition and history of china. Taking us through this fascinating novel is the superb main character, Ailin Tao. As you get more into the book you learn to love, and admire Ailin, because of her braveness, and actions through out this great novel. I would recommend this amazing book to those people who like to read about true breaking stories. I believe the author wanted to intoduce us to this Chinese story by ushering us into a wealthy Chinese family, with a little 5-year-old girl walking us through her foot binding problems. Ailin has 2 sisters, a baby brother, mother and a father and grandmother that are the only two who really understand her best. Ailin is to be married to Hanwei Lui, which was organized by her grandmother, but was broken off when ailin refused to bind her feet. It seemed to Ailin that after the foot-binding incident everything went down hill, because of her grandmother's death.
Through out all this happening, Ailin starts going to a public school, which was very weird for Chinese girl to do. She has a great time leaning English and socializing with other people than the ones in her house. After her father dies of tuberculosis her malevolent, inferior Big Uncle is in charge of the family and will no longer pay the tuition for Ailin's school. To Big Uncle paying school for a GIRL is a waste. Now Ailin has to find a way to support herself because since her feet are not bound nobody will marry her, which means no one, is supporting her.
I hope you really enjoy reading this great page-turner!
Rating: 4
Summary: ties that bind, ties that break by lensley namioka
Comment: This is a book about a Chinese family. A little girl named Ailin she is the main character. There is one named Big Uncle, he is a mean direct character. Ailin talks back to adults and speaks whatever is on her mind.
They are living in the time when American missionaries were just starting to come to China. There was a tradition in China that girls had to have their feet bound by the age five, so their feet would be small and they would have to wobble around, only the rich society did this. Foot binding is when they bend back all the toes except for the big toe.
Ailin is living in the time when most people still believe in foot binding, but some but some families didn't believe in it. She didn't want her foot bound and after a few arguments with her parents she won and did not get her feet bound, which canceled her engagement with Liu Hanwei(at the age of five she has an engagement). Where she then had the choices to become a nun, farmer's wife, or a concubine, a concubine is a baby maker. But she decided to baby-sit for an American family at the age 12. She babysitted a boy and a girl, her whole life changed...
Interested???
Then go get this book at a library near you!!!!...
Rating: 4
Summary: Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Comment: I am writing this Critique for a project I'm doing in my 7th grade Language Arts class. Enjoy!
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break. A great book it is. It educates you about some tradition Chinese ways, and how they have changed. For instance, young Chinese women binding their feet. Once a tradition that all did is now broken. And Ailin Tao was one of the first young girls to break that torturous tradition. China; shunned from the rest of the world, had their own little world. Ways of government, ways of marriage, and ways of education were different from everyone else. The tao family consisted of three girls and a boy. Ailin was the youngest of the girls. Both of her older sister's were already married or soon to be married. Next would be Ailin. She met a nice boy, but his mother disapproved of her. Ailin was almost five years old and her feet were not yet bound. Ailin refused to go through such an abominable deal; she preferred her freedom of jumping, playing, and running away from her amah, or governness. The marriage arragement was broken and Ailin became a disgrace to her family. Ailin was then sent to public school, which Big Uncle disagreed with, but fathger insisted they all catch up with modern times. A terrible event left Big Uncle in charge of the Tao family and Ailin was taken out of public school-her world, the place she feels where she most belongs. She's then given three choices by her Big Uncle: (1) to become a nun, (2) to become a farmer's wife, or (3) to become a concubine-which was not too much better than a slave. She decides to go to her teacher, who has secretly given her free English lessons since being taken out of school, for help. Recommended by Miss Gilbertson, Ailin became an Amah for Mr. and Mrs. Warner to look after their daughter and son, Grace and Billy. Doing such a good job of teaching and caring for the chilren for three years, Mr. Warner invited AIlin to make a tremendous change in her life to go half way across the world to their homeland of America. Will Ailin go or will she not? Is she going to look for another job or come back home to the Tao house and plead to stay? At the end of each chapter, this book keeps you wanting, needing, and waiting for more information about Ailin until you can totally finish the book. I recommend reading this book for it teaches you about a different culture and is constantly adding an extra 'spice' to life.
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