Review by TeensReadToo.com for Bound Rating:
Xing Xing is a young woman who is treated like the classic lower class stepchild in Donna Jo Napoli’s BOUND.
Her mother died when she was very young and her father then remarried. The woman that takes care of her (if you want to call it that) is her father’s new wife. Xing Xing has a stepsister who has bound feet and can’t walk, so she is treated by her stepmother as though she were a maid.
The story is told in the classic tale of Cinderella, with the wicked step-family and the prince trying to find the girl who the missing shoe fits. There is even a great mix of Chinese culture thrown in! I learned a lot about the old (and now mostly) unused tradition of binding a girl’s feet.
I enjoyed BOUND because I really love the Cinderella story. Xing Xing becomes a character that you want to see succeed and a girl whom you want to find a suitable husband. You care what happens to her and want to know how she survives her mean stepmother.
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
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Review by TeensReadToo.com for Bound
Rating:
Xing Xing is a young woman who is treated like the classic lower class stepchild in Donna Jo Napoli’s BOUND.
Her mother died when she was very young and her father then remarried. The woman that takes care of her (if you want to call it that) is her father’s new wife. Xing Xing has a stepsister who has bound feet and can’t walk, so she is treated by her stepmother as though she were a maid.
The story is told in the classic tale of Cinderella, with the wicked step-family and the prince trying to find the girl who the missing shoe fits. There is even a great mix of Chinese culture thrown in! I learned a lot about the old (and now mostly) unused tradition of binding a girl’s feet.
I enjoyed BOUND because I really love the Cinderella story. Xing Xing becomes a character that you want to see succeed and a girl whom you want to find a suitable husband. You care what happens to her and want to know how she survives her mean stepmother.
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector