stories revealing the thinking of an older generation...
Choose two stories that reveal the thinking of an older generation of singaporeans. What new insights have you gained from such a revelation.1st story : Mid- Autumn
In the story Mid-Autumn, the author, who is the mother, is known as the older generation in the story and so is her husband. When her daughter was still a child, she worked hard to earn money to pay for her daughter's education as she wanted her daughter to be able to study at any university that she wanted.After her daughter graduated from medical school, she was very happy as her daughter could accomplish what she could not do which was to become a doctor and earn lots of money and find a good husband. Both she and her husband expected her to be a doctor and earn money but when she told them that she did not want to be a doctor but to be a missionary in Uganda instead, her husband scolded their child and said that she was ungrateful as she did not want to look after him but look after niggers instead, even though he did not do anything for her when she was a child. It goes to show that older generation of singaporeans in the story Mid-Autumn plan for their child's future without asking or even telling them in the first place and expects them to do what they want them to do. Thus, showing that they are expecting alot from the younger generation of singaporeans. I have gained new insights that the thinking of older generations and teenagers are very different as us younger generation as they expect alot from us while we only want to do waht ever pleases us.
2nd story : Evening Under Frangipani
In the story, Evening Under Frangipani, the mother is known as the older generation in the story. The mother does not like the relationship betwen Elaine and Prakash just because Prakash is of a different class from her and the mother is of higher class. Its means that she wants her daughter to marry someone who is of their same class or higher and not someone who is as low class as Prakash. This shows the thinking the mother has as an older generation of Singaporeans. This also reveals the mindset of older generation of Singaporeans in Singapore. I've gained an insight that singaporeans from older generation, example our parents, have a different set of thinking from teengaers as they still have the mindset of older generation.
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posted by PeArLyN @ 5:13 PM
3 Comments:
Her stories has the points and had answer the question well. But she would try to answer in a her own words.
She could also quote more evidences from the collections to show the reader where she got her points.
But in overall, i like her answer. It would be better if she give examples of how the daughter thinks different from them, to show the difference in the generation's thinking.
The answers provided to the questions are good. Evidence are given to answer the question. One bad point is that she should paragraph the answers. All jammed into one paragraph makes it alittle hard for reading. Other than that, good job! (:
i thnk you've done a good job. You have elaborated your answers and it is completed with evidence from the text. well done.
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