Graphic Organizer ( Short Stories)

TSL 3102 Literature In English 2012 Lecturer: P. Rusmanizah Ustati

Title

Shame by Sherly Geok Lin Lim

Character(s) and characterization

Mei Sim-6 years old -innocent girlMother-married to rich man arranged by Tua Ee-strict mother of 3 childrenAh KimGrand AuntyTua Ee-Mei Sim’ s grand aunty-strict and heartless to her daughter, Siew Eng.FatherSiew Eng-Tua Ee’s only daughter-obedient and hardworkingJeng ChunPeng HoMrs Cheung

Theme(s)

UngratefulSuperstitiousIrrationalRacist

Setting

Time and Geographical

Present Malacca

1950’s

Social / Cultural

Baba and Nyonya Culture

Society that still believes in superstitious

Others Historical

Baba and Nyonya history

Tradition aspect:

-Women are needed to wear skirt, dress, kebaya.

-Women should be stay manner in every way.

-Men are portrayed as dominant

-woman is

Political


Title

His Country- After All by HenryLawson


A stout man

Bag man

Stranger

Theme(s)

Ungrateful

Patriotism

Forget the mainland

Setting


Present

In a train

In Australia

Social / Cultural

Society that forget the mainland

Society that being sarcastic

Others Historical Political


Title

Hills like White Elephants


The girl,

The American,

The bartender

Theme(s)

Talking versus Communicating

Conflict in a relationship

Conflict of a young pregnant girl

Feminist issue

Decision making

Setting


Hot day (sunny)

In a bar at the railway station

Railway station between Barcelona and Madrid

Hills across the valley

Social / Cultural

American people

Drinking people

Pregnant out of wedlock

Others

Set at a train station to highlight the fact that the relationship between the American man and the girl is at a crossroads

Historical Political


Title

Three Hours Between Planes


Miss Nancy Holmes (Mrs. Walter Gifford),

Donald Plant

Theme(s)

Misunderstanding

Confusion

Disappointment

Curiosity

Setting


Mid-western country

Three hours between planes

The airport

Mrs. Walter Gifford’s house

Social / Cultural

Drinking people

Social criticism- men intention towards a married woman

Love since the school time

Social commentary

-against the society as Donald Plant is trying to get a married women.

-Married woman accepts a man to come to her house without her husband’s present.



Title

A Little Place off the Edgware Road


Craven

The Guardsmen

Theme(s)

Death, hatred of the human body, fear, obsession, insanity

Craven, is obsessed about the human body's impurity, with this same obsession ending up in insanity. Throughout the novel, the author gives us a sense of fear, which is then amplified by the truth, revealed at the end, the killer was caught, but the victim's body had not yet been found.

Setting


Year 1939

Edgware Road

Social / Cultural Others

A gruesome bloody murder has been committed. A man is accosted by a blood soaked man in a darkened movie theater. He thinks it may be the murderer but the murderer has been apprehended while the body of the victim is missing from the scene of the crime.

Historical Political


Title

PIGEON AT DAYBREAK


Mr. Basu - irritable and paranoid, asserting itself aggressively

Otima - long suffering and loyal wife of Basu, archetypical housewife, interested in the trivial and sensational news

Bulu - one of the Basus' next door neighbor, "burly", "good-natured", uneducated and "half-witted",Mr. Basu's diametric opposite

Theme(s)

Imprisonment and freedom

perception vs reality

sense of protection and that of vulnerability

a psychology suffering’s husband kept by his wife most loyalty even in the world

Setting


Darya Ganj (in Delhi), near the Jumna River

Social / Cultural

India in modern times

Others

Mr. Basu's bedroom - brings him security and protection, represents a

sort of self-imprisonment

The terrace-contrast with his bedroom's comfort, as

not only is it exposed to the hot summer air, it also lacks any fans with only a

string

Historical

Political


Title

African Emergent


Elias- Black -African,Zulu- A sculptor.- Used to live in the slums of Johannesburg - Likes company

Black man-Good friend of Elias-He was part of the drama group with the Narrator and Elias.-He was a “tubby” man.-A cheerful, smooth talker.

Theme(s)

Racism

Social class

Setting


South Africaplace where Elias has some success

USA place where The Man offered drama scholarship.

1950’s the Congress Alliances (which virtually constituted the opposition to apartheid in the 1950s’)

Social / Cultural

Black People-Blacks had very few rights.-Lived under a curfew and could be arrested for being out at night after curfew time.-Difficult to gain passports .-Illegal for them to live in white suburbs.-Not well educated.

White people-Whites have the power.


Government classifies the White people as belonging to certain villages even though the Black people may never have seen these villages. To live outside these they had to have local residence permits.


Title

Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe


Jonathan IwegbuOptimistic

Robbers Threaten him to get 100 pounds Stole Jonathan 20 pounds

Theme(s)

Thankful to God

Beliefs

Setting


Period after the civil war

Eastern Nigeria

Social / Cultural

Society that survive after the civil war-The protagonist is always think positively and thankful.-Religion is important. It can encourage a person to live in positive way

Others Historical

Based on the Biafran War that happened in Nigeria

Political


Title


Theme(s)

Setting

Time and Geographical Social / Cultural Others Historical Political

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