Sunday, January 24, 2010

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.

-Mid Autumn


A mother's pain and confusion takes place when her daughter decides to leave Singapore to do charity work in Uganda. After obtaining her GP qualifications, the daughter decides that lifestyle with "mobile phones, golf weekends and memberships" hold very little for her, whereas her mother has undergone a life of privation to make these options available for her daughter and it does not seem that her daughter is thankful for it.


-Tanjong Rhu


A successful executive who, following the death of his mother laments that he has forgotten so much about his childhood life by the sea. His grief at her death is intermingles with regret that in the last months of her life he did not turn to her to remedy loss.

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