Vocabulary 1
What is a narrator?
Person who is telling the story
What is an author?
person who wrote the book/story/poem etc
What country did foot binding come from?
China
What is the main characters (protagonists) name?
Ailin
What is context?
background information
What is perpsective?
Point of view
What is foot binding and what was the end result?
Binding a woman's feet so they would fit into small, beautiful shoes
3inch foot to marry rich
Who wrote the book/Who is the author?
Lensey Namioka
What are the three types of narration, provide an example of each
1st (I, us etc) 2nd (you, yours etc.) & 3rd (they etc.)
What is theme?
Moral of the story
Lesson we learn
An idea that is seen all throughout the text
Why did foot binding become a beauty standard?
Actually unknown, but may be because an Emperor loved the small feet of a dancer he once saw. Others say that it was because an important female had deformed feet and wanted everyone else to be like her.
Who was Amah and why didn't our protagonist like her?
A governess & Nanny
She was always bossing around Ailin, trying to make her more "ladylike" to prepare her for marriage