32048528 Short Story Mariah

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MARIAHBy: CHE HUSNA AZHARI

Prepared By :

BONNIE MADUIN EDWIN

MAS FAIRIZIANA

NORDIANA

NUR SOLEHAH

TAN YIING

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Analyse the short story through theGender Perspective. Relate it to

Malaysian context.

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THEME

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Discrimination

Male vsFemale Female vsFemale

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Women arerequired to give fullsubmission to their

husbands.

Cik Yam allowsTok Imam to have

another wifePg: 14

Widow is considered asunder class which she

would be sociallyoppressed

Mariahaccepts TokImams

proposalPg: 15

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ISSUES AND CONCERNS

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Gender Stereotyping

Men

Strong,courageous and

rational.

Women

Weak &Irrational

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Ironic:

The women in Mariah stand out in triumph because of thestrength in their faith. They are selfless while men show theirweaknesses.

Both women are willing to sacrifice for love and religion.Cik Yam willing to share her husband because she loves

him and because she believes that she will be sheltered underthe Golden Umbrella of Siti Fatimah on the Day ofJudgement.

Mariah gives up independence (her love) to marry theImam because he is a man of religion she is not dependenton men for a living because it is shown at the start that she iscapable of finding her own income.

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Relationship

Husband and wife AmongNeighbours

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Husband-wife relationship Perfect marriage: Tuk Imam & Cik Yam Problematic marriage: Cik Gu Leh & Cik Gu Nab

Ironic: Tuk Imam is the one who wants to take asecond wife not Cik Gu LehPg 13 Cik Yam jumped up as if struck by a bolt oflightning. Can that dreaded thing most feared by

women be real, happening to her? Please God, let itnot be true. Why couldnt it have happened to thatlazy Cik Gu Nab, who couldnt even fry an eggproperly? Why her? The loving devoted wife, themodel housewife? Why? Why?

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Among NeighboursCik Yam & Cik Nab

Cik Yam welcomes Cik Gu Nab despite thefact that Cik Gu Nab is a gossip.

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Ironic:

Mariah marries Imam in the hope that he willguide her in spiritual matters. In actual fact, the

Imam marries Mariah because she reminds himof his lost love of his youth.

pg 15 Imam was the man to marry, if she would

ever wish to marry. A man of religion would bethe only person worth marrying after all thoseyears of self-imposed celibacy.

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Relating things that happened to

sorceries

The women think that Mariah use sorceries toattract customers to her stall

pg 6 CikYam, continued Cik Gu Nab, Mariah hasbeen enticing our man to abandon their homes for herKedai Merpati. You know her nasicannot be thatspecial. Why, I am sure for one she cannot beat your

nasi belauk. (CikYam readily agreed). But why do allthese men seem hell-bent on eating breakfat at herplace? I reckon, I mean we reckon she has putsomething (Cik Gu Nab put heavy emphasis on theword something) in her nasi.

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Blaming women on the issue of

infertility

If a couple could not bear children, the woman is atfault not the man.

Pg 7 & 8 Why couldnt his wife bear children likeother women? Some women, it seemed, have thefecundity of rabbits, but not his wife. Like all men ofhis generation, it never occurred to him he could be

the culprit in his wifes supposed inability to bearchildren. As far as he was concerned, bearingchildren was a womans job, and if she didnt therewas something wrong with her.

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CHARACTERS & CHARACTERISTICS

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Mariah

A widow

Nasi Belauk seller

Beautiful and sexyPg 3 & 4

Mariah was a nasi seller in Mulo, in fact the nasi nasi seller inMolo. Every morning at seven sharp she would walk past the

market entrance into the village square and mesmerise themen with her swaying hips as well as her nasi.. Mariah alsohad another asset. She was without a husband. Mariah hadbeen married once, but her husband had passed away soonafter.

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TUK IMAM

Head of the mosque (Pg: 5)

Pious (Pg: 11)

Respectable (Pg: 5)

Referent to solve problem (Pg: 5)

Succumb to his lust (Pg: 14-15 )

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CIKGU NAB

Gossip (Pg:6)

Loves to find others fault (Pg: 6)

Hopeless cook (Pg:8)

Jealous wife

(pg 14)

Cik Gu Nab sent threatening messages to Mariah

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CIKGU LEH

Cik Gu Nabs husband and Tuk Imams friend

Represent Tuk Imam in asking Mariahs handfor marriage

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SETTING

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PLACE Mulo, Kelantan, Malaysia

(Pg: 3) The main trunk road from Pasir

Puteh to Kota Bharu.

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PATTANI, SOUTHERN THAILAND

(Flashback) Pg 8 the Imam became transported toanother time, his youth.

The place where Tuk Imam studied be an ImamPg 9 When the Imam was a young man of fifteen hisfather had voiced his wish for his son to be sent toPattani in Southern Thailand to learn under a tutelage

of a well known Sheikh.

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SOCIAL/POLITICAL

Typical Malay (Muslim) community- Careers(Imam, Teachers, Nasi seller)

- Clothing The characters (Kelantanese) in this short story are

portrayed as religious.

Kelantan is the only state which is governed by PAS a

political party that aims to establish Malaysia as acountry based on Islamic legal theory derived fromthe primary sources of Islam, the Quran, Sunnah as

well as Hadiths.

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MALAYSIAN VOCAB

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Imam/Tuk Imam: Head of the mosque

Cik Gu: Teacher

Subuh : 1stprayer of the day

Isya : 5th(last) prayer of the day

Tepung : flour

Kebaya : traditional clothes for women Kain lepas : sarong

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Kulliyah : lecture

Fusus al- Hakam: Islamic famous book

Masyaallah (interjection): praise be to Allah

Rizq (arabic word): sustenance

Sheikh (arabic word): Islamic scholar

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Tudung saji

Use to cover the food on the table

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Jubah and kuffiyah

Jubah

Kuffiyah

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Safrah For functions; like a table cloth but to be put on

the floor instead of table.

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