The Gardener

(Jocelyn Watson)

PLOT
Introduction
Never in a sari. On Sundays she’d always change first. Back from mass, Her
features were as processing and loving as her physical accomplishment at
her garden. She’d look around with a satisfied smile at the fruits of her
labour before coming indoors, where she’d infuse the house with aromas of
jeera, haldi, cinnamon andcloves

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When they returned to England, finding a house with a garden had been a

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priority for Ma. She wanted to make up all the years she hadn’t had a garden
in Hong Kong. Despite her affection for all that blossomed in her garden, Ma

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longed small karri pattha. She wanted something of India in her garden. Over
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the years she would take karri pattha leaves, root them as stem cuttings,
willing them to grow but, more often than not, they would drop and die.

Climax
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Not far from Larkden are a number of garden centres. Ma went by herself
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and bought what she needed, she planted the karri patthanext to her bay
leaf tree having decided they be good company for each other. Months later
she could Nana in Poona to tell her that her karri pattha was growing well.
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Falling Action
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Ma passed away not long ago. I know it happens to us all, but it was the
hardest journey I’ve been on, and I’ve been fair few.
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Resolution
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I went to balcony. Under the dusty orange sky I started across at the plants
and Ma’s bay tree. I reminded myself that the reality isn’t static;nothing’s
fixed or permanent, but I was lucky; Ma had gifted me a garden full of
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memories

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 The Gardener
(Jocelyn Watson)

Persona
As I had read the story about The Gardener. I observed thatthe persona of
this story is a nature lover because Ma (the mother) loves to plant like karri
pattha, willow tree, the gladioli, roses and etc.

Tone
In this story the gardener, as I had observed the tone of the character is

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sadness because she also feel her mother’s feeling that feel sadness

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because her karri patthatre can’t grow, and also she feel sadness as her

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mother said to her that they have a 3 homes but she only consider as a

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home is in Hong Kong.
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Imagery
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The imagery in this story is when the girl who is narrating the story named
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Josephine is flashbacking the memories with her mother who passed away
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while she is looking at the garden.

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Formalistic Approach
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This story is a formalistic approach because it contains/ concerns this

elements setting, characters, plot, theme, point of view, conflict, and
symbolism.
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Setting
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The setting in this story is in sari, house garden in Hong Kong.

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 The Gardener
(Jocelyn Watson)

Conflict
The conflict in this story the gardener is when Ma was passed away and her
daughter and son feel the hardest journey of their life.

Characters
Ma- the mother, Pa- the father, Anthony(the first child), Angelo(second
child), Maya(third child), and Josephine who is narrating the story (bunso).

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Historical Criticism

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The story ( the gardener) is a historical criticism because as I had read the
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story I notice it has a flashbacking the happenings in the series of the story.
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Symbolism
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Love of Nature and Parental Love

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Theme
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Gardening and Child-rearing.

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A Cup of Tea

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 (ShibaniLal)

PLOT
Introduction
Revathi makes herself a cup of tea. She rarely drinks tea nowadays,
preferring the bitter hit an espresso each morning. However today she feels-
doesn’t quite know what she feels, but she knows that the hiss of the coffee
machine will not comfort her.

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She hasn’t seen her grandmother in three years; it feels like a lifetime. She

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struggles to picture the older woman, but the image is blurred and grainy,

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like an old black and-white photograph. Their weekly conversations, once

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newsy and exciting have lost their charm, both women holding back.

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They were married six months later. After a two-week honeymoon in Goa,
they’d boarded London-bound flight at Bombay airport. A promotion at work
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awaited him; a new life together awaited them both. She was inconsolable
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during the flight, as she thought of Dadi eating dinner alone that evening,
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and of all that she’d left behind.

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A tear rolls down her cheek. She wants to tell Dadi, but somehow, it feels
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half-baked, there is so much more to say. None of which she can tell her
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grandmother over cracking phone wires.

Resolution
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She feels lightness, a joy she hasn’t felt in years. Three years to be precise.
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She drains her teacup, and without pausing to think, as though she has
always known to do this, she walks over to the spice cupboard. Slowly,
deliberately, she reaches in for a handful of cardamom. And, just as her
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grandmother does, she makes herself a cup of tea.

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 A Cup of Tea
(ShibaniLal)

Persona
As I had read the story “ A Cup of Tea” the personality or the image
present at this story is the real love of the granddaughter to her
grandmother.

Tone
After l read the story I identified the tone of this story is the longing of a

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granddaughter to her grandmother.

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Symbolism

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The symbolism of this story “A Cup of Tea” is the reverence to elders and
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close family ties.
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Imagery
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After I had read the story, I had observed the imagery of this story is
when the granddaughter is reminiscing the moment with her grandmother
and how happy she is when she is at her grandmother side.
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Theme
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Nostalgia

Setting
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Conflict
Character
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Approach
Criticism

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 The Brain ( An Excerpt from “Parts”)
(Lois-Ann Yamanaka)

Persona
-As I had read the brain, I had conclude that the image or personality of the
author is encouraging the readers and it will also catch you attention
because as you read this you can relate about the idea.

Imagery
As I had read the story “The Brain” the imagery of this story is when the

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author the way the brain function and how it can help us.

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Tone
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The tone of this story is the author expressing his/her feeling how the brain
function, help and what is the feeling being a brain.
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Impressionistic Approach
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As I had read this text or story the brain I had observed that it is an
impressionistic approach because it is like that you are also part of the story,
you can relate with the impression of the author as you’ve read the story
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Psychoanalytic Criticism
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I had observed that the story “The Brain” is a psychoanalytic criticism

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because it affect the psychology of the readers because as they read these
story they will realize about how the brain help them.
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