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The Village by the Sea

Author - Anita Desai

Anita Desai’s Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul, which is 14 kilometres from Bombay. Lila, the eldest child among four siblings, is but thirteen years of age, yet she already has the outlook and maturity of an adult. Her brother Hari, twelve is the only person with whom she can share her troubles . Their mother is an invalid and needs constant care and nursing. Nobody knows what exactly is wrong with her but she grows weaker and weaker with every passing day. Their father, who has been out of work for months, is in a permanent drunken stupor, from which he arises occasionally to shout at his family. What with two younger sisters to take care of as well as their mother, life for Lila and Hari is not easy. Their father is most useful when he is away at the local toddy shop, getting drunk. There is a constant need for money as the family is almost always in debt. Then one day, Hari decides he’s had just about enough and leaves for Bombay – the Bombay where dreams come true and ambitions grow into reality. Lila is left alone, to manage her sisters Bela and Kamal and her mother and somehow keep the family strings together. Help comes from an unexpected source, the rich DeSilva’s. Meanwhile, Hari is new in the great city of Bombay, and all alone. A kind restaurant proprietor, Jagu, takes pity on him and welcomes him to work in his restaurant. There, Hari builds a strong friendship with Mr. Panwallah, the lovable watch repairer whose shop is just beside Jagu’s. Set against the backdrop of a typical Indian fishing village, The Village by the Sea will leave a lasting impression on the mind of the reader. Anita Desai’s vivid imagery and appropriate settings and a good plot make this, a book well worth reading. Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie to a German mother and Bengali father. She spent much of her time in Delhi. Desai is among the well known Indian writers in English and is at present in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her other novels include Fire on the Mountain (1977), which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting, Feasting (1999), each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Custody was made into a film by Merchant Ivory productions. Her children's book The Village by the Sea (1982), won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

The Mahogany Table

 Author’s background

•       Born in 1893

•       An only child of Harrow School housemaster George Townsend Warner (remembered as a brilliant teacher) and his wife, Nora.

•       Sylvia Townsend Warner contributed short stories to the New Yorker for more than forty years.

•       At Theodore Powys's house, Sylvia first met the poet Valentine Ackland. When in 1930 she bought "the late Miss Green's cottage" opposite the village inn, she invited Valentine to live there. So began a love affair which lasted until Valentine's death from breast cancer in 1969. 

•       She died 9 years after Valentine’s death.

PLOT (exposition)

•       Mrs. Carrington is introduced, leaving Letitia Foley’s house.

•       She praised Letitia for being aeffecient and marvelous.

•       Letitia was humble.

•       Despite all the description of her tasky daily routine.

Rising action

•       Letitia was old and living alone in a large house.

•       The mahogany table she inherits from her late-great-grandmother reminded her the memories she had with her sister, Cecily.

•       Cecily and Letitia is twin.

•       Before, both ladies lived a slatternly life together

Conflict

•       1918, Cecily introduce Dexter, a limping missionary American.

•       She planned to marry Dexter.

•       Letitia asked Cecily whether she will be taking the mahogany table.

•       After Dexter’s departure, Letitia and Cecily fought.

•       Cecily left the house without reconciling with Letitia

Climax

•       Letitia was left alone since then, organised her own life.

•       Continuous post letters to Cecily despite Cecily intermittent reply.

•       One day, Letitia received news, Cecily died in a car accident.

•       Characters:

        Lettitia Folley- Discipline, Meticulous, Organise , Neat-freak, Adhere, Loner

        Cecily Folley-Controlling, Exuberant, Care-free, wishful, Imaginative

        Mrs Carrington-Caring*, Gossiper, Socially-active, Important/well-known

Point of view

•       The third point of view.

–      An outlook from the narrator.

–      Clear descriptive of the situation and events, narrate by the narrator, allow readers to imagine the story and plot clearly.

–      Reader can input their personal perception into analysing the characters.

Theme

•       A harmonious relationship with family members will secure a happy home.

Ups and downs in relationship among siblings

The summary of Jungle of hope

Summary: Jungle of Hope

This story is about a group of traditional farmer in Ketari and Benus who are solely dependent on traditional farming. They are forced to move to the jungle of Janda Baik by a potent combination of natural disasters - a severe drought followed by a particularly serious flood. At the same time, outsiders are buying up the lands in the village to plant rubber trees and to open a mining land as a result of the post WWI colonial policy which encouraging rubber planting and tin mining on large scale.The villagers have to make decision concerning their lands and their livelihood. Pak Kia and his family decided to take up the challenges to open a new piece of land in Janda Baik while Zaidi sees an opportunity to acquire wealth by planting rubber and move away from that traditional farming. Pak Kia quit Karim's study and bring him to the jungle so that he can be a young pioneer by culminating skills in him. In Janda Baik Pak Kia and family suffer hardships and circumstances. Their new planted paddy was attacked by elephants, Pak Kia's younger daughter suffered from sickness and died and Pak Kia himself was attacked by the wild boar. Karim helped to do his father's job while he is still unable to do heavy jobs. The price of the rubber fluctuated and influences Zaidi's shop. The number of his customers slowly decreases and it is due to the economic depression as well. Yet he took initiative to supply rattans and so forth to Tuan Pekok even though the price is pretty cheap. Zaidi did help the Janda Baik's villagers to sell their vegetations to Kuala Lumpur with the help of Karim and Salim.Meanwhile Pendekar Atan who always use deceitful way to gain something that he wants finally locked up in jail. Perhaps it is a punishment for a "finagler" just like him. In the end, everything that started something like defeat and escape has turned into physical and spiritual triumph especially for Pak Kia's family.

*adapted from Kent Teslian's presentation and the novel Jungle of Hope itself. Thanks

Tales Of The Unexpected S01 E09: The Way Up To Heaven Pt 2

Tales Of The Unexpected S01 E09: The Way Up To Heaven Pt 1

Week 3
16/1-20/1

American Writers
Three hours between planes Hills like White Elephant The Tell Tale Heart
1-Chelsea & Lisa
2-Haiqal & Mai
3-Luqman & Hakim
Week 4
30/1-3/2



British writers
A little place off the Edgeware Road The Mahogany Table The House that was Never Built (Australian writer)

1-Aiman & Muiz

2-Karen & Maimunah
3-Amin & Alex

5
6/2-10/2
African writers
Civil Peace Africa Emergent A Dream of China (Asian) 4. Games at twilight (Asian)

1-Wani & Fara
2-Haziq
3-Akmal & Syahirah

4-Juliati & Dulcy

6
13/2-17/2
Malaysian writer
Shame Mariah Sarah and the wedding Aquestion of dowry
1-Shahrole & Ehsan
2-Che Rasyidah & Izzati
3-Lily & Naim
4-Mira & Lorretta

*Please be prepared*thanks*

English Literature Rap

Village by the sea trailer.mov

Edgar Allan Poe & Vincent Price: The Tell-Tale Heart (I)

Feminist and territorialism?

Meaning is socially constructed.
Texts have more than one interpretation
Texts are commodities (products of society)
Truth is relative, highly dependent on arbitrary categories of difference, esp. those based on “sex” and “gender”
Look for systems of containment; for evidence of repression, oppression, suppression, subversion, & rebellion in texts by women; study women’s unique ways of understanding and writing about the human condition.

*Territorialism
Possessions (objects of desire) are metaphors for who we are or how we wish to be perceived—aspects of the “self.”
Possessions may be tangible or intangible (my car or my idea, e.g.)
They occupy mental space: cognitive, affective, and conative.
These spaces strongly resemble territories—with rights of ownership, markers, boundaries, rules of “in” and “out,” defensive strategies, etc.

Look for territorial behaviors; determine the “object(s) of desire”; what aspect of self is in play? Who owns the object? Who wants it? Why? Identify the territorial act: acquisition, management, or defense? How does this information improve our understanding of the text?

Post colonialism and Marxism?

Meaning resides in text, history, and ideology
Literature is a political tool—those in power decide what is “art”
Truth is relative
Study the author’s (and reader’s) life & times; locate tensions between conflicting cultures; explore the “double consciousness” of colonized & postcolonized writers; observe how colonizers “refashion” the colonized;

*Marxism
Meaning resides in text, history, & ideology: messages of oppression & class conflict
Texts are commodities, not timeless works of art
Truths are socially constructed.

Look for evidence of oppressive ideologies of the dominant social group; look for uses & abuses of power

Deconstruction and new historicism?

Texts—composed of language, an unstable sign system that always “defers” meaning.
Truth is constructed, not “given,” so there’s no such thing as A correct interpretation
Look for an apparent meaning of some aspect of the text ; show how the text undermines (deconstructs) it; look again & show how the text undermines the latest interpretation, etc.
Look for oppositions: good vs. evil, e.g. Show how the text undermines first one, then the other so that good and evil are exposed as “empty” concepts

*new historicism

Literature is one among many socially constructed texts. If there is a difference, it’s the intentional use of the imagination to convey ideas.
History is every bit as subjective as intentionally imaginative texts
Purpose of analyzing literature is to locate hidden social messages, especially those that promote oppression.
Texts have no final interpretation
Language, though socially constructed, is stable enough to be useful.
Find a small intriguing or odd piece of the text and interpret it by comparing it to contemporary sign systems—magazines, newspapers, fads, laws. Try to locate uses & abuses of power.

Structuralism?

Meaning resides in the structure of language, not in art nor in the reader’s mind
Scientific approach to literary analysis:
structure of language as a logical sign system determines meaning
Two levels of language: langue (“the King’s English”) & parole (everyday speech)
Interpret a text or part of a text by taking its language apart (study word derivations, sentence syntax, etc.)

What is reader response?

Text has many interpretations—text & reader interact to create meaning

Meaning ultimately resides in the reader’s mind
or the consensual “mind” of a community of readers (this class, for example)

A text’s truth is relative

Readers may reach the same conclusions about a work--but approach the task quite differently

Again, what is literary criticism?

The disciplined application of theoretical principles for the purpose of analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating literary texts.

*Some traditional approaches
Historical—author’s historical moment is key to understanding a literary text
Biographical—author’s personal experiences are central to understanding the text
Social realism (?)—social transparency is key to understanding the text…


*New criticism
Meaning resides in the text—not in reader, author, or world
Texts may contain numerous messages, but must have a unifying central theme created by the perfect union of all artistic elements.
Texts are artistic creations
Close reading is the basis of new critical analysis
The methodology for finding meaning is clear-cut; the tools are unique to literary analysis

What is it all about literary criticism?

*Literary criticism is the method used to interpret any given work of literature. The different schools of literary criticism provide us with lenses which ultimately reveal important aspects of the literary work.

Literary criticism helps us to understand what is important about the text
its structure
its context: social, economic, historical
what is written
how the text manipulates the reader

A historical approach relies heavily on the author and his world. In the historical view, it is important to understand the author and his world in order to understand his intent and to make sense of his work. In this view, the work is informed by the author's beliefs, prejudices, time, and history, and to fully understand the work, we must understand the author and his age.

An intertextual approach is concerned with comparing the work in question to other literature, to get a broader picture.

Reader-Response is concerned with how the work is viewed by the audience. In this approach, the reader creates meaning, not the author or the work.
Mimetic criticism seeks to see how well a work accords with the real world (is it accurate? correct? moral? ). 

Then, beyond the real world are approaches dealing with the spiritual and the symbolic--the images connecting people throughout time and cultures (archetypes). This is mimetic in a sense too, but the congruency looked for is not so much with the real world as with something beyond the real world--something tying in all the worlds/times/cultures inhabited by humans.
The Psychological approach is placed outside these poles because it can fit in many places, depending how it is applied: (1) Historical if diagnosing the author himself (2) Mimetic if considering if characters are acting by "real world" standards and with recognizable psychological motivations (3) Archetypal when the idea of the Jungian collective unconscious is included (4) Reader-Response when the psychology of the reader--why he sees what he sees in the text--is examined.

Likewise, Feminist, Minority, Marxist, and other such approaches may fit in: (1) Historical if the author's attitudes are being examined in relation to his times (i.e. was Shakespeare a feminist for his times, though he might not be considered so today?) (2) Mimetic--when asking how well characters accord with the real world. Does a black character act like a black person would, or is he a stereotype? Are women being portrayed accurately? Does the work show a realistic economic picture of the world?

What is Literary Analysis?

It’s literary
It’s an analysis
It’s--
An Argument!
It may also involve research on and analysis of secondary sources.

*How is it literary?
Usually, a literary analysis will involve a discussion of a text as writing, thus the term literary, which means “having to do with letters”
This will involve the use of certain concepts that are very specifically associated with literature.

*Important key concepts:
The Basics
Plot
Setting
Narration/point of view
Characterization
Symbol
Metaphor
Genre
Irony/ambiguity

*Other key concepts
Historical context
Social, political, economic contexts
Ideology
Multiple voices
Various critical orientations
Literary theory

*What is an analysis?
An analysis of a literary work may discuss
How the various components of an individual work relate to each other
How two separate literary works deal with similar concepts or forms
How concepts and forms in literary works relate to larger aesthetic, political, social, economic, or religious contexts

*How is Literary Analysis an Argument?
When writing a literary analysis, you will focus on specific attribute(s) of the text(s).
When discussing these attributes, you will want to make sure that you are making a specific, arguable point (thesis) about these attributes.
You will defend this point with reasons and evidence drawn from the text. (Much like a lawyer!)

What is historic criticism?

*Attempts to recreate the meaning and values of the work for it’s own time.
*Avoid criticism of text in terms of present day society and culture.
*Historical criticism requires that the critic use dictionaries, historical manuscripts/accounts, internet databases, and/or textbooks to provide adequate background knowledge.

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