ANIL written by Ridjal Noor

Hello and welcome to America to two million.

Through today I will be presenting the finalization of multicultural

literature, eliminate from the short story and it's written by

North. So this for fulfilling um, task one.

So without wasting time, let us start with a brief

synopsis of the story.

So the story actually revolves around uh seven year old

boy indian boy who lives in a family of three

which consist of he himself a new his father or

also known as papa and his mom mama.

So this story starts uh in a particular innocent, in

a in a particular night when manny wants to go

to the toilet so he wants to go to the

toilet. So she was while he was contemplating whether to

wake his mom again or to go out by himself

to the toilet.

Uh he keeps on thinking of um thinking of the

hunted of the tree.

That is that is that he thinks is haunted.

That is believed to that is rumored to be haunted.

So he tries to peek outside to see what is

their side, whether it's safe or not.

But he saw um, two men which is marrying move

to and they had men, uh, the money moved to

holding a woman and unconscious woman on his back.

So, um, this makes, um, manual, uh, to be curious.

So next what uh, to be curious, but next, what

he saw next is something that traumatize him.

The most, he saw money moved to hanging the woman's

body on a tree until she is dead.

So, um, the next morning when he tries to go

out and see the tree again, he saw a crowd,

a big crowd.

And when he goes deeper in the cycle of crowd,

he sees, um, the dead body of a woman who

he is sure is the, is the woman that she

saw yesterday that she saw the snacks.

Um So and he also saw Marie musto crying, grieving

for the death of his wife, but as a witness

himself, uh and you'll know that he is faking to

grieve over the death of his um uh his wife.

So as the head man comes and tries to dismiss

the crowd, daniel with the with the bravery that he

has, he actually um tells the crowd that he saw

mary moo to the one killing his wife himself.

But little does he know that this is a big

mistake that he had done because um due to that

he is sent away from the village because the headman

wants no traces or no evidence or no witnesses of

him, um killing a woman and also witnesses that could

lead him getting arrested.

So that is the synopsis for this story.

Um Okay, let's move on to the elements of multicultural

literature that I have analyzed.

Uh so, first of all, let's go for a gender

issue. Gender issue can be defined as an issue that

can send determine um by gender based difference between a

woman and a man.

Um this could be uh this could be seen in

um one of the example that I would like to

say is the the domestic violence that occurred by two

women by women in two families.

So this could be seen when um in this could

be seen when the two men which is husband trying

to kill his own wife.

So this is actually a gender issue, and also and

that no one is brave enough to um to give

the justice that the woman deserved.

Um And next, it could also be seen uh at

the fact that um and his mother is the uh

is abused by his husband and can be seen with

the bruises on his shoulder, which is due to the

heating, but his by her husband himself just because he

was drunk and because he was abusive.

And another gender issue that I think I have to

point out is the inequality based on gender.

So this can be see uh in a different um

uh in a different way that they are treated because

as you can see all my sleep on a hard

cold matt uh well on the floor.

Well, opposites on the writing bad.

This is for me, it's considered unfair just because the

father is the head of the family does not mean

that they um there is the need for a special

treatment. So that is what gender issue.

Let's move on to.

The next element of multicultural literature is which is the

family relationship.

Family relationship can be defined as a situation where there

is a kind of troubled relationship between family members, which

can lead to tension.

And this tension could be seen between Daniel and his

father. Uh this can be seen because I knew described

his father as a bully, and why?

Because um this is because he um saw uh he

saw his father abusing his uh mother.

That is why I'm scared to ask his father to

accompany him through Thailand.

So instead he tries to uh wake her mother up

repeatedly. So, as a father, as a family, we shouldn't

feel unsafe around them, we shouldn't feel scared.

Uh instead, a father should make his son feel safe

and secured.

Okay, next to the next element is the belief system.

So, belief system can be defined as an ideology or

a set of principles that help a certain society to

interpret uh their everyday reality.

This can be seen from uh the form of religion,

from politics, affiliation, philosophy, and also in spirit us also

spiritually. But from this start story, it focuses on the

belief system of spiritual.

This is because in that society, the kids, they believe

that the kids and the Madman believe the madman garage

believe that um there is a tree, the big tree

which is haunted and eat kids who plays around it

and that once the kid um is it uh no

one would like hear anything from the kid again.

So it's like a something that they understand, something that

they believe.

So that is why it is considered as a belief

system, unless uh the second, this is the social issue

and which for me, I think is the main message

of the story uh in social issue, it is actually

a problem that affects not only a person as an

individual, but many people within a society.

Um, this can be seen um, in the abuse of

power by the headman, because the Hedman's uh basically uh

Hedman's attitude is because he is misusing his power in

order to save himself from the crime that he had

committed uh, from this story.

We know the fact that on the head man is

the one who killed um the woman, right?

But he tries to, he thinks that he is above

the law, the law.

So he uses his power, he uses his authority, he

uses his power too high, uh the crime that he

did. So he took advantage of uh onions father who

is not really smart and um, he ask his father,

he has on his father to send on your way

just because um, just because he does not want to

be arrested and just because Daniel could possibly lead him

to get arrested because Daniel is the witness and he

saw what happened.

So that is for the social issue and next blast

is the value system.

The value system, uh, is defined a standard pattern or

like uh, an acceptably expected behavior that is shared in

a society.

This could be seen when everyone agrees to the headman

suggestions to quickly burn the body even though they are

doubting the situation.

No one is brave enough to question.

They had meant anything because it has been established that

the villages, they actually know the fact there is like

a rumor that they believe, um, that the woman is

abused by not only his husband but also his whole

family hold nice white.

Mm So no one really tries to stand up for

the woman and tries to give the woman justice that

she deserved.

Okay, so that is for the belief system.

Oh, so from all of the elements of multicultural literature

that I have stated, the things that I have analyzed

throughout lee.

Um lastly I would agree to alexander statement which matters

who had stated are included in the cost of this

question. It's true that by reading literature, we as a

reader get to um, to learn about life lessons based

on the history that the characters has gone through.

So let me just go through one by one by

what I've learned from each of the elements for gender

issue. I've learned the fact that as a as a

woman, I would face injustice in the world.

So in order for me to like stand up for

myself, I will not let people to treat me mm

uh treat me.

I would not let a person treat me less as

a woman.

Um, so yeah, I don't know is what I have

learned from the gender uh issue.

Instead that I have to have the courage for my

own stuff.

I have to stand up for my own self.

Next is what the family relationship from the family relationship

I learned the fact that if I want to have

my own family or with the family that I have

right now, um, it's important to create like a loving

environment in the family because from the story, we know

that I'm really scared of his father and that's something

that should not happen in between family members.

So yeah.

Um, in order for me to have a loving family,

I would not, and as for the belief system, uh,

the base system is kind of complicated with what I

think is that belief system is something that a majority

of the society believe, like as like an ideal ideology.

So as the society, as a member of the society

society, I would respect what people think.

I would respect their ideology because like from the story,

um, kids will be kids.

So they think that the um the tree is haunted,

but as an adult, uh, it must be a funny

uh, uh, the system I respect everyone's point of view,

everyone's ideology, something that they believe, something like a policy

that they have because we might not know whether at

the end of the day that they could be right.

Right? So that is why the belief system um, next

is for the social issues uh, in the social issue.

Uh, obviously I learned that if I am a leader

in a group or if I have the power in

me, I would not misuse the power.

It's because I've learned it from the head man's attitude.

So as a leader in future or as a teacher

or as a pre service teacher right now, it is

important for me to know my boundaries and not misuse

my um power for my own benefit.

That could lead other people uh and last but not

least, is the value system.

The value system is that if anything, like injustice happens

to me or in a society, I would speak up.

I will speak up the truth about what is going

on, not like how the society um, in the story

annual, because they know.

ANIL written by Ridjal Noor

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