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Journal Entry 8 (Mariah)

Marriage in different culture leads to different perspective on bigamy and monogamy. In my opinion, people who married with different culture is because there is some chemistry between them, otherwise, they are excited to know, learn and also practice another culture. Besides that, it may leads to bigamy also. The story is presenting the view of bigamy which is also popular with the name of polygamy among man. When Tok Imam decided to marry Mariah even though he is already have Che Yam as his first wife. Tok Imam in this story is practicing bigamy. In today Malaysia, it is very typical because many of man in Malaysia are practicing bigamy and also the intermarriage instead of monogamy. This is one of the satisfactions in their life by having two or three wives in one time.

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Journal Entry 7 (tragedy of my third eye)

What do I think about bullying is an activity make buy a group of people who have a bad manners in living in society. This is a negative behavior happen in our society nowadays. Commonly, youngsters like to practice bullying just to show that they are strong towards the weak ones. This is not a good behavior to practice on because it will affect other people in the society.
The third eye is represents her feeling inside her heart because she is always being underrates by every person around her including her mother. She felt very sad to think about her fate because everyone seems like they don’t like her so much.

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Journal Entry 6 (mala)

Mala become a new mala after Lucy teach her to improve her dress up. After she changed, Sanker become more in love with her. All what Mala wanted is a child and after 2 years later, she pregnant and they lastly have a baby boy. Mala live happily with her child and she works again at Sanker’s office as his secretary. She already improve her skill in become a secretary and she know how to treat customer, how to manage Sanker’s schedule everyday. Sanker did not tempered anymore towards her and they life happily ever after.

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Journal entry 5 (The Color Purple)

Women in The Color Purple story were facing with different changes among them. The changes that Celie, Shug and Sophia go through are based on what had happened in their life.

At the beginning of the story, Celie is a daughter of a stone hearted man who is always raped his daughter until Celie give birth baby girl and boy. These babies he used to sell to other people to get money from them. After that, someone come to propose his daughter to be his wife because he can’t handle his children. Because of Celie sister is still young, Celie has to replace her to become that man’s wife. As soon as she gets married, she has to sacrifice everything in her life including her beloved sister. She is more became her husband’s slave, she did the house work, manage his husband’s children and everything. She felt really lonely after separated with her sister until she lost contact with her. She has nothing in this world except a sister and two children but then, they are not with her until she is old. She was cruelly treated by her husband because her husband doesn’t love her. At the end of the story, she became a friend with Shug, her husband’s ex-wife until she get help from her to get her right back and changed to be an up-to-date woman.

Shug in this story is a singer and also an ex-wife to Celie’s husband. She is a very famous singer but, before she became a nice woman, she goes through many conflicts in herself. At first, she doesn’t like Celie and she makes Celie as her slave also. She asked Celie to bath her and prepared her meal until after everyday she spent her time with Celie, she became nicer to her. She changed her to wear more proper dress and fight for her right. She helped Celie to escape from her husband’s power.

Sophia is a wife to Celie’s husband’s son. She is a big young girl who felt in love with that boy. She is a very happy go lucky person and very aggressive person. After she gets married, she always argued with her husband until she divorced. After that, she became a maid in an English house. She changed to become a passive and weak person after it.

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Journal Entry 4 (Hungry Ghost)

The narrator is searching for the happiness and the peacefulness. In my perception, the grandfather wanted the narrator to relieve him because he felt there are no happiness and the peacefulness in the next world after he died. He cannot enjoy his life like what he has enjoyed in the real world. He wanted the narrator to relieve him from the agony of hell which hurt him so much and also to relieve him from the difficulties in there. The offering food, ‘hugging grave’ and burning money symbolize helps from people in the real world to him who stay in the next world. Offering him food symbolize that the person is provide him with some food for him to use in there, the hugging grave is to show that their family show their love to him even though he is not there together and burning the money for him to spend in his vacation.

Last letter to my parents,

Mum and dad, first of all I would like to say sorry on what have I done since I was a baby until now at the end of my life. You have done the best for me just to make sure that I grew up perfectly and become a person who always hurt you. I have promise to a good daughter to you and become a very useful person one day but, I am so sorry for the difficulties that I faced which I can’t make our dreams come true. I love you so much. Remember me until the end of your life.

From,
Your daughter,
A girl to remember..

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