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REVIEWER IN LITR 102 FOR FINALS
1. “Two Women Scrambled for a Baby” ended when
the baby was given to the real mother and the
king punished the impostor.
2. Atrocities- cruelties
3. Kuang Si Waterfall- Laos
4. The poem “The Bewail of a Mother” talks about
the feeling of disappointment or bitterness of a
mother.
5. Characteristics of Cambodian literature:
 Complicated plot
 Repetition of stories
 Animals as characters
6. Mosquitoes whine and sting to steal blood to
restore their lives.
7. The lice were very angry because they knew that
the bed bugs envied them as they had not much
to eat.
8. The story bedbug and the louse happened in the
bedroom.
9. “In particular when discover about the past, it
seems sharp knife is placed in my heart.” This
expressed hyperbole.
10. Borobudur Temple- Indonesia
11. Point of View of “There is Not only You”- Third
person- Omniscient
12. “While feeding your kids you were helped by ten
You are not called for house works or cooking
But your poor can not be compared with remote
women
Who make incomes for their daily surviving?”-
The widower was compared to other women
who both worked at home and do jobs for a
living.
13. Messages of “There is Not Only You”
 Life brings both happiness and sadness.
 It is not the pain that makes life hard to
live. It is the ignorance that pain is not
part of living.
 A blessing is not seen. It is felt.
14. Blood- Ngoe Tam dropped on Nhan Deep’s body
15. Grandmother- did not like children
16. Marina Bay Sands- Singapore
17. Inconsolable- heartbroken
18. Frying pan symbolizes the life situation of a
mother
19. Lizard- judged the situation partially due to
friendship
20. One-armed old man- judged the crocodile guilty
because of hatred
21. Angkor Wat- Cambodia
22. “Life drifts heaven and earth”-Difference
between good and bad
23. The first stanza in the poem “Only in Poetry”
suggests that the poem is created from the
challenging experiences of the speaker just like
the challenging experiences of a farmer.
24. The third stanza of “Only in Poetry” illustrates
the suffering of the poet in the creation of his
masterpiece
25. “My dear daughter!
Why I cannot prevent my depressing tears
They are running over my cheers…”
-This suggests that the mother is feeling blue
due to her disappointment
26. “The Mosquito” wants to convey that even if
how much we prepare for our destiny; fate
would always follow.
27. Concubines- mistresses
28. Petronas Tower- Malaysia
29. “You all stress about working out an auspicious
date, what sort of matching clothes to have, and it
all has no connection with the marriage itself.”-
Exhausted
30. “Mrs. Geni considers marriage as not a success.”-
She herself experienced a failed marriage
31. Anxious- worried and nervous
32. Fisherman-> an armed old man-> lizard->
monkey-> rabbit
33. The two women who scrambled for a baby were
neighbors.
34. The King ordered the kid to be placed in the
middle and told the two women to try to
scramble for it.
35. Depressing tears was used to symbolize the
author’s feeling in “The Bewail of Mother”
36. “I’ve never thought about getting divorced. Have
I thought about killing him? Often.”- Crazy
37. Virulence- severity
38. The Crocodile and the Five Judges piece
teaches the readers to be grateful and not to be
greedy so that they will not end up nothing.
Trying to be honest instead of being cunning.
39. “Forbidden is used to describe things that people
strongly disapprove or feel guilty about, and that
not often or mentioned about.”- Divorce is such
a forbidden word.
40. “Mrs. Geni in December” reveals that having
more than one wife is allowed in some parts of
Indonesia.
41. Mrs. Geni’s beliefs about marriage:
 Marriage is the most illogical ceremony
as it causes lots of troubles.
 No marriage really fails because
marriage itself is not a success.
 Marriage is joy and happiness, so let
someone experience joy.
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42. In the story, “The Two Women Scrambled for a

Baby”, there were two women who had their
own babies.
43. Reticent- reluctant
44. Merit- praise worthy quality
45. Both the bed bugs and the louse got killed by the
girl.
46. The children did not realize that their mother
physically suffered due to the exposure to the
fire in the kitchen.
47. Pernicious-Hands of murderers
48. Based on the story “The Crocodile and the Five
Judges”, the rabbit judged the situation fairly
without prejudices.
49. Not a theme of “The Mosquito”- happiness
50. Characteristics of Grandmother:
 Having the hands of the murderers.
 Her buttocks deflect good fortune.
 Her eyes were cold and glittering and her
mouth was thin and cruel.