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her example. then they all ran out, leaving me quite alone with my silver medal, staring at my empty bowl.

1. whose example did adelines three brothers follow and how?

adelines three brothers followed

life in tianjin

a few months later, in early 1942; wintertime
when i started kindergarten at st. josephs french convent school, big sister had been going there for years and years and was already in the fifth grade. she complained so much about having to walk me to and from school that grandmother nai nai finally told ah mao, the rickshaw puller, to pull us there and back.
father had bought the shiny black rickshaw three years earlier as a fiftieth birthday present so that nai nai could visit her friends and play mah-jongg.

\chapter 1: top of the class,\ \chapter 2: a tianjin family,\ \chapter 3: nai nais bound feet,\ and \chapter 4: life in tianjin\ from chinese cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter by adeline yen mah, copyright © 1999 by adeline yen mah. used by permission of delacorte press, an imprint of random house childrens books, a division of penguin random house llc. all rights reserved.

1. if the rickshaw had been purchased for adelines grandmother, why were adeline and her sister taken to school in it?

even though it had been purchased for adelines grandmother, adeline and her sister were taken to school in the rickshaw because

Explanation:

🆕 New Concept Discovered: Textual Evidence Analysis
Finding specific details in a text to explain cause-and-effect relationships.

Step 1: Analyze the question

The question asks: "If the rickshaw had been purchased for Adeline's grandmother, why were Adeline and her sister taken to school in it?"

We need to find the cause-and-effect relationship in the text that explains why the girls ended up using a vehicle originally bought for their grandmother.

Step 2: Locate the relevant details in the text

Let's read the first paragraph under the heading "Life in Tianjin":

• "She [Big Sister] complained so much about having to walk me to and from school..."
• "...that Grandmother Nai Nai finally told Ah Mao, the rickshaw puller, to pull us there and back."

Step 3: Formulate the explanation

The text directly connects Big Sister's constant complaining about walking Adeline to and from school to Grandmother Nai Nai's decision. To stop the complaining and solve the problem, the grandmother ordered the rickshaw puller, Ah Mao, to transport the girls to and from school.

Answer:

Even though it had been purchased for Adeline's grandmother, Adeline and her sister were taken to school in the rickshaw because Adeline's Big Sister complained so much about having to walk Adeline to and from school that Grandmother Nai Nai finally ordered the rickshaw puller, Ah Mao, to pull them there and back.