Choose two stories that reveal the thinking of older generation of Singaporeans.What new insights have u gained from such a revelation ?

The two stories that i will talk about is Tanjong Rhu and The Move.

First,let talk about Tanjong Rhu,Mr Lee's mother who is known as Ah Ma is representing the older generation of Singaporean.She always likes to chat about her past.All things that happen on that time.Not like Mr Li who always talk about things that is present nowadays.Ah Ma also quite a thrifty person.She does not like her son spend money to buy things just for her for example the binoculars for her eyes.She recollects times when her husband was still alive and Mr Li was just a kid playing by the sea.Through this,we have gain a new insight about the past and those who living aroung her.

Second,we will talk about The Move .In The Move,the person that present the older generation of Singaporeans is Madam Teo,the mother of Jimmy and Tommy.This story mainly talks about Madam Teo moving to her son new house.But that is when the problems starts.Madam Teo wants to bring all her old and sentimental items along with her.One reason is that all her things have stay with her for very long time and she have feelings with it.But the problem is that,her children all disagree of her doings because they find all her things is old and run-down and they can just buy a new ones to replace them.For example,the pomegrante tree.Now,it has grown so big,her children all do not want to have it anymore.This shows that young peoples do not treasure things that they have in the past,all they want is to get a new ones to replace them. Whereas most people of the older generation treasures everything they have, mostly because they experience more hardship than the younger generation and they find all their things is very important to them.


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Q 12

How are Young people and their ideals presented in two stories in the collection? How far do you identify with these young people?


-Evening Under frangipani

At one level at touching love story that *bemoans the "barriers of pride that isolates each and every human being", the story also involves the racial prejudice that keeps two people apart from each other.


-Hamid and The Hand of Fate


The tale of Hamid whose life is changed forever by an accident which claims his right arm. A simple young man, Hamid decides to be patient and accepts his fate stoically. This decision does not prevent him from sensing that people around him are merely making use of him, hoping to get money from him.

Q6

-With reference a suitable story,discuss how far changes is shown to be either welcome or feared?

-Lee

It is between a Singaporean father and his westernized daughter, the weird and uneasy relationship between father and daughter clashes between the 'Asian' and 'Western' culture .

Q4

Select two stories in which there is conflict between parent and child, and show how far there is some resolution of these differences at the end of the story.


-Tanjong Rhu


In this story, most of the conflict is between Mr Li and his mother. Mr Li follows the death of his mother feels that he has forgotten so much about his childhood life. He regrets himself not turning to his mother while she was alive. While she was alive, Mr Li had always argued with his mother about her eyesight and how stubborn she was when she said that she could see and she did not want to go for surgery.Mr Li's mother is talking about she is seeing the past but Mr Li does not understand .When he finally realise and understand, it was too late for him as her mother had already passed away.



-Lee



At the starting of the story,when Lee return to Singapore to meet her father .That is the time when the external and internal conflicts starts between Lee and her father.The main reason is because she not used to the things in Singapore like the culture all those stuffs which she does not even like and also understand it when she first come to Singapore.She also cannot adapt to the life in Singapore as she is more used the life on the other countries like America as she grows up from there. All her lifestyle is so different from Singapore that why we can see there is so much conflicts between Lee and her father at the starting of the story.Both of them still do not understand each other yet after so long since the last time they seen each other.

Q2

How is the motherhood presented in any two or three stories in the collection?

-The Martyrdom of Helena Rodrigues

From the start of story,we can see that Helena is a mother that likes to control people judging by the way that she controls her husband. Her husband had died.Her next target was her own son.Helena would nurture in him a hypersensitiviy of conscience which bordered upon the pathological;she brought him up to believe that insult his mother's devotion to him was the ultimate blasphemy.Far more securely than her husband,Aloysius had been,George was kept tied to Helena's side. As he gets older, George met his lover and they wanted to get married. On the other hand Helena has fakes illnesses, but Helena's old friend Doctor de Cruz took them seirously and told terrified George thatt his mother's heart was not strong as she did not want George to get married. She wants George to always be by her side as she is lonely and needs company.

-Paper

The couple's desire of getting rich is destroyed when they play the stock market and lose everything. In a twist of fate, the husband's dream house is finally realized in the paper house that is burnt during his funeral for his afterlife. At the funeral, everything was set up, the house was well decorated with delicate framework of wire and thin bamboo strips covered with finely worked paper of myriad colours. There were silver flowers scattered liberally throughout the paper house which gave a carnival-like atmosphere. There was a paper swimming-pool which was put in the house. There were also paper figures inside the house. These things were what the Mother did for Tay Soon.

2009 DEC holiday HW

Story: Evening Under Frangipani
Conflicts
· Internal conflicts :Prakash is having intense fear about the interview and showing physical sighs ( pg 47,first paragraph)
· External conflicts :Elaine is talking a issue of marriage that imposed by the society (pg49, last paragraph)
· Internal conflict: Elaine cursed about her foolishness and also Prakash
(pg 58,first paragraph)

Climax
· When Prakesh jokes about Elaine’s father (pg 62 to pg 63)
Resolution
· Open Ending

Characters
1)Prakash
He is a nervous-wreck (during job interview , pg 47)

He is competent (pg 48-49)
2)Elaine
She is a feminist (pg49-50)

She is caring (pg 53)
3)Elaine’s father
He care more about his collection of insect rather than his own family (pg 55)

He is passionate about insects (pg 55)

The most interesting segment is when Prakesh goes for first interview at the starting of the story. Prakesh start to feel uncomfortable on the other side of the desk. Prakash was sure that his sweat would leave a W-shaped mark, however momentary. on the plastic chair. A ‘W’ that would spell ‘washout’, another rejection. He knew that his armpits were circled in sweat glands. He tried to appear attentive, to master his feelings and seem the right man for the job.

Story: Lee
Conflicts
· External Conflict: Lee and her father argue about her walkman matter (pg 87,line 10 to line 14)

· Internal Conflict :Lee asked her father why he never wrote (pg 91,line 1)

· External conflict between lee and her father (pg 91, line 7 to line 15)

Climax
· When Lee’s father found lee and Holden Mankiewicz in his bedroom (pg 103)
Resolution
· Complete resolution

Characters
1)Lee
She likes music a lot ( listens to music wherever she goes (pg 87,line 10 to line 12)

She is a sarcastic person the way she talks to he father (pg 87, first paragraph)

She also a healthy person (pg 91,last second paragraph)

She also quite a rude person (Pg 90, line 17 )

2)Lee’s father
He got jealous easily when Lee talked about piscopo, (pg88,last paragraph)

· He does not like to pay attention (pg 98,line12)


3)Alan
He didn’t feel up to the responsibilities of fatherhood (pg 89,line 7)

· He dresses like a trucker(pg 89,second paragraph)

He sometimes get a bit of a pretentious creep(pg 89,second paragraph, last line)

The most interesting segment is when Lee visited her grandmother during the family reunion. Her grandmother was very happy to see her and Lee talked about everything she does in her country. This tell that how different is Lee and the Singaporeans as she live in other country when she was young.

Story: A History of Tea

Conflicts
· Internal conflict: about Beverly going to China. (pg 112,last second paragraph)




Climax
· The climax began when Beverly say that she was going around Asia(pg 113,first paragraph)
Resolution
· The resolution of the story is a revelation



Characters
1) Beverly
· She is a person that like tea too.(pg 108)

· She is a fussy person too(pg109)
2) Tien Yee
· He a casual person, dress simple not like Beverly(pg 109)

· He a calm person judging the way he tell Beverly the story( pg110,last paragraph)
3)Grandmother
· She is traditional person. (pg 115)

· She also an religious person as Beverly’s grandfather meet her grandmother at the church. (pg 116 ,last paragraph)




The most interesting segment is when Beverly talks about her boyfriend and her parents disapprove of her relationship with him.

Story: Release

Conflicts
· External conflict :Between Eileen and her new neighbour (pg 139, last paragraph )
· External conflict :Between Eileen and her husband (pg 140, last few lines to pg 141, first paragraph)

· External conflict: Between Eileen and her neighbour (pg 141,line 15 to line 23)

Climax
· It is when the puppies started whining and whimper in the night (pg 143,last line)
Resolution
· Ironic resolution

Characters
1)Eileen
She is friendly person ( pg 139, first paragraph )

· She is also forgetful person (pg 141, line 1 to line 9)

· She also a persistent person (pg 143 ,line 1 to line 13 )

2)Philip
He listen to his wife (pg 142,line 1 to line 6)

He finds work more important than his gardens matters (pg 145, line 7 to line 12)

3)Neighbours
(Wife and husband)
She is a impatient person (pg 139,line 18)

· She also very rude person the way she speak about Eileen (pg 139, line 19 to line 21)

She and her husband talk rude word to Eileen, (the wife, pg 140 ) and (her husband, pg 142)


The most interesting segment is when Eileen told the man to move the kennel to another side. So that she and her baby can finally get some sleep but the man mistaken what she said and killed the puppies with the spanner. Eileen was shocked and her heart froze.

Story: An Obituary for Fifth Aunt Come Late

Conflicts
· External conflict: Aunt and her mother quarrelling about the issue of using sugar.(pg 152.last paragraph)




Climax
· The climax is when the war is started. Everything start to change since then.(pg 156)
Resolution
· The resolution in this story is complete. At the end, she died peacefully. All the issues and conflict is resolved.


Characters
1) Aunt
· She is quite a hardworking person. She do all the things at her mother house.(pg149,first paragraph)

· She is also a clumsy person. She walks slowly, move slowly from one thing to another or spot to spot. (pg149,first paragraph)


2) Aunt’s Parents
· Aunt’s parents biased on their son only, they always neglected their daughters like their daughters are invisible.(pg 151)

· They also quite a bad people in the way how they talk to their own daughter when she needs some sugar for her medicine to treat her cough.(pg 152,last paragraph)

3)Dressmaker
· She is quite an attentive person. She take care of her customers by letting them to sit comfortably under the ceiling fan in front of the shop.

The most interesting segment is when the starting of the story. when Aunt start her life in her mother house by doing the all the things there, for example housework. All her life goes on, we can see that how her family ignore her at home, how they treat her until the day she die.

Story: Pastime

Conflicts
· The Internal conflict: the man with a limp in Tai Poh’s story, he has a mental struggle over a certain issue. (pg213,last paragraph)



Climax
· The climax is when Mr Lee start his own story and tell Tai Poh about it.(ph 216,last paragraph)
Resolution
· The revelation

Characters
1)Tai Poh
· From the starting of the Pastime, it show that Tai Poh is quite a creative person as he make up stories of people with his own ideas.(pg 212)

· He an observant person. He observes carefully at the people around him before he considered who to pick on for his story. (pg 212 ,third paragraph)

· He also an helpful person .He help and look out for his friends when they need help.(217,last second paragraph)
2)Mr Lee
· He is a attentive person as he listen to Tai Poh’s story quietly (Pg 213 to 216)

· He also like Tai Poh, he is an creative person as he also creates stories by himself .pg 217)
3)The man that is in Tai Poh’s story
· He is an ambitious person who have full of dreams. (pg 213.line 10)
· He also a strong-minded person. Once something is lock on. no one can change his mind.(pg 213 to 214)


The most interesting segment is when Mr Lee says his own stories after listening to Tai Poh’s story. And the stories he says are quite similar to Tai Poh’s stories. This makes feel more interesting to continue reading the story.