Throughout Cinder's life, she is constantly treated unfairly by people who see her and are weirded out by the fact she's a cyborg, and her own stepmother, Adri, who should, like any mother, be cheering on their child, not pushing them down. When Cinder's stepsister fell ill with letumosis, she was very sad, because she loved Peony very much. In response, Adri told her that she wasn't sad, because she can't even cry, because she doesn't have any tear ducts. …show more content…
Any half-way decent human being should know not to tell someone else how they feel. However, Adri knows she can get away with this because Cinder is a cyborg, and she believes that that gives her a right to dictate over Cinder and be her very first bully. Secondly, she didn't choose not to cry. She didn't choose to be in a tragic accident. She didn't choose to be burned alive. She didn't choose to die. She didn't choose to be a cyborg and lost her tear ducts. She didn't choose for her sister Peony to get letumosis. She didn't choose any of this, and she most definitely didn't choose to have a life where she is constantly discriminated against for something as small as being a