Homework

Homework

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

Tanjong Rhu
In this story, is the relation between Edward and his mother. Edward's mother depended on him. As motherhood, her son offered her glasses. It's a sign or inherent worthiness, justiness or goodness that is obvious. Her sufferings is somehow wanted to be eased by her son.

The Move
It is the essence of Madam Teo's character and sufferings from her past that strengthened her will and ability to move on with life and cope with urbanisation/changes. Correspondingly, the support of her children and family togetherness also helped her to adapt to new surroundings as demonstrated in moving her belongings to another flat and having her grandchild call her from overseas.

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

Lee

.Another conflict is when Lee suddenly asked”How come you never wrote this is an internal conflict. This made him feel uneasy as he himself did not know why he didn’t write to Lee
.Another external conflict is when Dad said”Do you have to dress like that? This made Lee lose her temper. Maybe she reacted this way because she still cannot accept the culture

With reference to suitable stories, discuss how far change is shown to be either welcomed or feared?

Hamid and the hand of fate

In the story, Hamid and the hand of fate. Change is welcome to the full extent. Hamid from the start was not popular in his community. But when he had the accident where he lost his hand, he was given a sum of $80 000 for his injury. After he was given the money, he became popular in his community. That is how change is welcomed in the story, Hamid and the hand of fate.

How are young people and their ideals presented in 2 or 3 stories in the collection? How far do you identify with these young people?

Evening under frangipani

Elaine's and Prakash

Thier ideal is their love among each other and the way they view each other. In my opinion, they are presented as the main characters in the story. In the story, they had problems with each other maybe similar to typical problems in singapore.

History of Tea

The ideal presented is the story of Beverly. She is presented in a particular manner from her family tree. Beverly is a mix a race, and she has alot of problems in her life. The way she handles tea is one of the example that shows how she is presented in the story, that links with the story, history of tea.

Choose two stories that reveal the thinking of an older generation of singaporeans. what new insights have you gained from such a revelation?

Tanjong rhu

In this story, they reveal the thinking of older generation such as Mr Li's mother.
Their old memories revealed their thinking as in this story, it's stated that Mr Li's mother was longing to see tanjong rhu but back in time where her husband still lives even though it's impossible. This tells me that old singaporeans (based on this story) are nostalgic.

History of Tea

In this story, they reaveal the thinking of old generation such as Por Por, Sherrie's mother. She is caring, she wants the best for her daughter but she is also rather racist as some old typical singaporeans are as she don't wan her daughter marrying uncle Raja.