Tomorrow I'll have a class with Miss Tan and we were asked to do the synopsis of a story adapted from a novel. Its 8 pages long and I know that its quite hard for me to get the input from the story. Thanks to few of websites on the net that help me in doing this assignment. Hehehe
The Journey – by Catherine Lim
In her book
“Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore”
Theme: Appearance versus Reality
Characters:
1. Richard - Main character
2. Mable – Richard’s wife
3. Old folks
Summary
- A man who has risen from his ‘ulu’ village in Malaysia to become a prosperous businessman in Singapore discovers he has cancer. He ends up eschewing expensive treatment overseas to go back to his village, much to the horror of his Westernised wife.
- The effectiveness of traditional medicine might be questionable but the love of the women who raised him is not.
- He is diagnosed with a terminal illness takes time out to reflect on his life.
- He eventually decides to leave his wife who is depicted as materialistic and “westernized” in her capitalist attitude to his life.
- He returns to the village of his birth, into the arms of elderly female relatives who are able to provide him with the emotional and physical support that he needs.
Lesson of the story
· The modern comforts of luxury and better sanitary standards does not naturally bring about true happiness and prosperity
· It is sometimes worthwhile to preserve our culture and our past, as antiquated they may seem.
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