how is motherhood presented in any two or three in collection?

motherhood is shown in the story of "the martydom of Helena Rodrigues". Helena may not be the most ideal mother but, she is still willing to go through certain difficulties for her son, George. Even though she has a motive behind all her actions but in the end she still went through them because of her son. she told her son that he should marry the girl he really loves and to not give up his happiness for her. But in the end she was just using a psychological trick to influence other people into doing things her way willingly, even though we can't deny that she is still doing her duties as a mother. After her husband Aloysius passed away she didn't remarry and continued to bring George up single handedly. This shows that she has fufilled her duties as a mother to George.

Mr Li's mother was a caring and traditional woman . She was afraid to spend her son's money as she thought it would come to waste since she was already contented with whatever she had now . For an instance , the binoculars Mr Li bought for Mrs Li , she thought that it was a waste of money as she said why do i want to look at faraway things for ? This showed that she cared a lot for Mr Li because she doesn't want him to spend unless necessary

Select 2 stories in which there is conflict between parent and child and show how there is some resolution of these differences at the end of the story.

In the story "A dream of China" there were conflicts between the author and her father. Her father dreamt of China, loves China, wants to see China again but he doesn't have the courage to as he thinks that he has betrayed China and isn't worthy of stepping on it's land ever again in his lifetime. But his daughter which is also the author thinks differently and she tried to give her dad a push and tried arranging a trip to China for him. To let him see how China is doing these days but in the end he rejected the offer and the author couldn't understand why he doesn't want to listen to her. In the end the author herself went instead and became the "eyes" of her father.

Mr Li didnt not understand why his mother reacted like that (refusing to go for the operation) , they quarreled over it , but only till the end , towards the end of the story , Mr Li finally understand why his mother reacted like this . He was regretful for what he have done , he raised his voice because all he wanted was Mrs Li to go for the operation to get better whereas Mrs Li didnt want to go for the operation as she thought she was already contented with her life , for what she has , to have such a son who cares for her and to reciprocate her love throughout the years of bringing him up didnt go to waste after all


With reference to suitable stories, discuss how far change is shown to be either welcome or feared.

In the story of Sundownder, Das moved to a new house. Even though the servant took great care of Das, he was actually scared of him. but after he visited his family and home they opened up to him. Telling him about the conditions of his home and the things that he needs. But he only told Das because he asked about it. which shows that he is scared Das. but after Das earned his trust and really opened up to him he welcomes the new master instead of serving a master that he is scared of.


How are young people and their ideals presented in two or three stories in the collection ? How far do you identify with these young people ?

hamid was involved in a accident that changed his life. but he did not give up and even though he was lowly educated he was kind and a sincere man. Even if his right arm was taken by the accident he was still able to sense if there were people making use of him to benefit from him.

Tay soon and his wife had dreamed of their "dream house" every now and then . They worked hard for it and would always save an amount of money each month to accumulate , and over a long period of time , it would turn into a big sum , so that they will be able to buy their "dream house" someday . However , everything went wrong when they played with the stock market , all their efforts gone down the drain as they were in debt , all the money that they won from the stock market initially , was all gone , including all their savings each month too . Lastly , they were left with a small sum insted of their ususal amount of money as almost all of it had already gone into paying their debts .