.Choose 5 links and write comments of 50-100words about the content of the blogs.
-Julius
-Abdullah
-Edmund
-Benjamin
-Faris
.Choose two stories that reveal the thinking of an older generation ofSingaporeans: What new insights have you gained from such a revelation.
-In Corridor, The death of an unnamed man in the common corridor outside a flat causes the feeling of uneasiness to an old lady whose family is involved in a heated "argument" with her neighbour. She wished that she was there when the unnamed man died, so that man would not have died alone without any eyewitnesses. She remembers the community spirit that recalled about kampong life in the past, and during her childhood days, she saved her village from a thief who threatened its inhabitants. The conclusion discloses a sense of loss and despair as the past cannot be brought back and relived once again.
-In Tanjung Rhu, Ah Ma represents the older generation people who is a parent and grandmother herself . She keeps talking about the past and at the same time, it irritates Mr T.W. Li, her son. She has different perspectives of Tanjung Rhu. She thinks it as her memories or simply fragments of her past. Whereas her son sees it otherwise eg, when she follows her son to his work place she looked out the window through the binoculars. She sees her husband alive and well and Mr Li is still a boy playing by the sea but yet again, it was a fragment of her imagination and her past. We gain new insights about her by knowing about the past and those living around her.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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