By: Jia Xi, Darishini, Jun Jing

Class: P1E

Mariah I Know Why the Caged Bird The Lady with the Dog
Sings

Author Che Husnah Azhari  Maya Angelou Anton Chekov

Country Malaysia  Stamps, Arkansas Russia

Characters  Mariah  Maya Angelou  Dimtri Gurov

 Bailey Johnson
 Pak Imam  Anna Sergeyevna
 Momma (Annie
 Cik Yam Henderson)
 Mother (Vivian
 Cikgu Nab Baxter
 Cikgu Leh  Mr Freeman
 Dr Lincoln
 Tommy Valdon

Setting  Place: Small village  Place : Stamps, Arkansas  The seaside resort
(Place & in Molo town of Yalta, the
Time : 1930s and 1940s
Time) capital of the
 Time: indefinite
Russian Empire
Moscow, the
Russian city of St.
Petersburg

Theme (s)  Women’s  Racial  Truth in deception

discrimination Discrimination
 Society and
 Self-acceptance
 Loyalty Morality

 Sacrifice of a wife  Time, Mortality,

and Purpose

Values  Willing to sacrifice  Self-Realization.  The

for lover  transformative
power of love
Cik Yam allows Pak Imam
Maya realizes that she
to marry Mariah because Both Dimtri and Anna are
has special, undeniable
she loves him. willing to transform
love to give and love to
themselves into the person
receive in life.
  Respect others  that their lover sees in
them.
Pak Imam respected his
wife by asking for  The definition of
permission before getting true love
married with Mariah
Dimtri sees Anna as his one
 Become honest and only true love even
though he has had many
Pak Imam told the truth to
love affairs with other
his wife about his old love
women before Anna.
for the Sheikh’s daughter.