Comparison of The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig and Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
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In my report I will be writing about the challenges and hardships the authors faced during their lives and how they overcame them. I will also being discussing what they gain from their experiences in their lives and what it taught them, also what they achieve in their later lives.
I compared the autobiographies The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig and Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah. The Endless Steppe is the story of Esther; a ten-year-old child who spent five years in exile in Siberia during World War 2. The Russian soldiers took her and her family from their home in Poland in 1941. They spend months in cattle cars travelling the steppes. They didn't know where they were going or how long it would take. The conditions were horrific, not fit for humans. Upon arrival in Siberia, they were stuck in one room filled with 50 people and made to labour away in the sun and mines: women, men, children and grandparents. They have the opportunities for education and better conditions in the inner village, though the conditions were not that much better at all...