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Content
I. SOCIAL CRITICISM
II. GENDER CRITICISM
III.FEMINISM
Social Criticism
- culture
- beliefs
- traditions
In this short story, it is related to the
traditions, beliefs, the way one
thinks, the norms which in relation
with the arts in Baba and Nyonya
culture.
CULTURAL ASPECT
InPeranakansculture, girls are not
allowed to sit with their legs open
because it is not polite.
Textual evidence:
MeiSimsmother scolded her Tamalu!
you noshame! Close your legs.
(Pg 70, para 1)
MeiSimsmother said Were going to visitTuaEe.
And dont sit with your legs open there. She
think I bring you up with noshame.
( Pg 70, para 5)
Traditions Aspect
CHINESE
HERITAGE
- CLOTHING
- FOOD
- RELIGION
- NAME
Clothing
ancientChineseculture
In
&MalayCulture, girls must wear
skirt. As we can see, throughout the
whole story, all the female characters are
wearing skirt. In this story we can see
most of the characters wearing skirt and
kebaya.
Textual
evidence:
Superstitious
Textual evidence:
Mother saidSiewEng was cursed. The
fortune teller had told her that the
girl would eat her blood, so she
wouldnt nurse or hold the baby, had
sent her to a foster mother, and had
taken her back at seven to send her off
to the kitchen where she slept on a
camp bed. (pg. 75, para 4)
MeiSimsgrand
aunty
is
superstitious.She
treated
her
daughter
badly
and
violently
because of the fortune teller.
Textual evidence:
You must stay for lunch, I have already
told thatprostitute daughterof mine to
boil the rice.
Sheshouted and slappedher daughter.
A purple bruise bloomed on the arm.
MeiSimsgrand-auntyphysically
abusedSiewEng.
Besides,
she
alsomentally abusedSiewEng by
usingharsh
language,
such
asSundal. (pg 75)
Textual evidence:
what do you say? What do you say,
youprostitute? (pg 76)
Siew Eng hung her head. Her samfoo
was faded and worn at the trouser
bottoms, and the thin cotton print didnt
hide her strange absence of breasts.
Textual evidence:
She was already sixteen, had never
been sent to school but had worked
at home washing, cleaning and
cooking since she was seven.
GENDER CRITICISM
Socially constructed differences
between men and women which
operate in most societies and which
leads to forms of inequality,
oppression and exploitation between
sexes.
Textual evidence:
Go serve the rice. We are coming to
the table right away. Make sure there
are no flies on the food.
Feminism
Sees on womens cultural
identification as a merely negative
object or other.
Examines the patterns of thought,
behaviour, values, freedom and
power in relations between the
sexes.
Womens value
Women aresubmissive in the society at that
time and they must accept their fate. History of
Chinese and Malay until now, male is always
dominant over female.
THE END