CHAPTER 8 BY:GROUP 7

HAJI GHANI HAS A FLEETING ENCOUNTER WITH A GHOSTLY-LOOKING WOMAN IN A FLOWING WHITE DRESS AZREEN RECEIVES A LETTER FROM JULIAN NG IN LONDON, ENCLOSING A LETTER FROM HER SIS TER, MADHURI HAJI GHANI HAS HAD A LOUD ARGUMENT WITH PUAN FATIHAH MADHURIS LETTER WAS MISSING

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FOREST AZREENS HOUSE THE OLD LADY S HOUSE MODH ASRAFS GRANMOTHERS HOUSE THE MARKET

i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii.

AZREEN SALEH SALEH ABDULLAH THE OLD LADY MOHD ASRAF MADHURI AZREEN MOTHER PUAN FATIHAH THE BOMOH

Basically, this chapter can be summarize into 5 incidents

the death of Azreens mother the flashback of Azreens childhoods memory Madhuris room on fire Puan Fatihah meets the bomoh Mohd Asrafs grandmother is sicked

IN MADHURIS ROOM, AZREEN REMEMBER HOW THEY STRUGGLE TO MAKE BASKET THAT AZREEN BROKE IT AT THE PAST, AZREEN FOUND A CLUSTER OF DURIANS FALLEN FROM THE TREE NEAR THEIR HOUSE AND GRABBED THE BASKET AND FILLED IT WITH AS MANY AS SHE COULD CARRY HALFWAY UP THE HILLL TO THE HOME, AZREEN FELL DOWN AND THE BASKET HAS BROKEN MADHURI HELPED HER UP AND TRIED TO REBULID THE BASKET THEY HOPED THAT THEIR MOTHER COULD NOT BE TOO UPSET WHEN SHE FOUND OUT ABOUT HER BROKENBASKET WHEN THEY PRESENTES HER THE NEW ONE TO HER THEY ALMOST DONE WHEN THEIR MOTHER STEPPED IN

AFTER THE FLASH BACK, SHE CAUGHT SIGHT OF A FACE AT THE WINDOW THEN, SHE GRABBED AN UMBRELLA AND RUSHED OUTSIDE BUT THE WAS NOBODY IN SIGHT SHE WENT BACK INTO THE HOUSE A FINE OCCUR IN MADHURIS ROOM HER FATHER APPEARED, PUSHED HER OUT OF THE HOUSE INTO THE HEAVY RAIN HE GRABBED A BROKEN POT OUTSIDE SCRAPED AND THREW SOIL UPON THE FIRE TIRELESSLY THE FIRE WAS SOON UNDER CONTROL WITH ASSISTANCE OF RAIN THERE WERE INTERNAL CONFLICT IN AZREEN AS THE PEOPLE SHE SAW BEFORE THAT WAS A FAMILIAR FACE

ON THE OTHER SCENE, MOHD ASRAF WAS WORRYING FOR HIS BADLY-ILLED GRANDMOTHER HIS GRANDMOTHERS CONDITION HAD GONE FROM BAD TO WORSE ASRAF WOULD WANTED TO BRING HER GRANDMOTHER FOR DOCTOR IN THE MAIN ISLAND, BUT THE DISTANT, BAD WEATHER AND CHOPPY SEA HAD PUT HIS INTENTION A DAMPER. ASRAF LOVES HIS GRANDMOTHER VERY MUCH AZREEN RAN AWAY FROM HOME AFTER THE FIRE OCCUR, MADE HER WAYTO THE OLD LADYS HOUSE

WAS ONCE A BEAUTIFUL, MODERN AND WELL EDUCATED WOMAN IN THE ISLAND HER LIFE WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE WHEN SHE MURDERED HER HUSBAND FOR SELF DEFENCE SINCE THEN SHE WAS ISOLATED IN THE LITTLE COTTAGE IN THE JUNGLE

PUAN FATIHAH WENT &MET THE BOMOH EARLY BEFORE THE MORNING, BEFORE THE AZAN TO THE FOREST ALONE PUAN FATIHAH REMEMBRANCE ABOUT THE FIRST TIME HAJI GHANI MET MADHURI SUDDENLY A WHITE FIGURE JUST PASSED THE SILHOUETTE ADVANCING TOWARDS HER BEFORE PUAN FATIHAH FAINTS WITH THE VISION OF THE VISION OF THE WOMAN LOOKING AT HER

ON THE OTHER HAND, MOHD ASRAF, ARMED WITH A LIST OF INGREDIENT OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE FOR HER GRANDMOTHER, MADE HIS WAY TO THE MARKET FOR THEM. AS PAK HUZAIMIS FARM WAS FLOODED, HE SUGGESTED ASRAF TO SEEK THE OLD LADY FOR HELP. ASRAF HAD THE FEELING OF FEAR FLOODED WITHIN HIM WHEN HE WAS AT THE OLD LADYS HOUSE LATER ON, HE HANDED OVER THE INGREDIENTS LIST TO THE OLD LADY, BUT THE EXPERIENCE WOMAN DECLINED TO PROVIDE THEM

SHE ALSO DENIED ASRAF INVITATION TO TREAT HER GRANDMOTHER IN PERSON BUT THE OLD LADY FINALLY GAVE IN TO THE PLEADING OF MOHD ASRAF, AGREED TO FOLLOW HIM BACK FOR HIS GRANDMOTHER

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must be courage when we are to face difficulties We must be caring and responsible towards our love one We must have the element of determination and perseverance in our life We must be realistic and not to believe in superstitious, taboos and rumours

Why didnt Azreen and her father fell sad when her mother passed away ?
Because both of them knew that she had gone to a better place .They were glad that Azreens mother need not have to suffer from her chronic illness anymore

The basket which was Azreens mother favourite . Madhuri and Azreen used the basket to carry durians fallen near their home and Azreen accidently fell and spoilt the basket. They worked overnight to replace the basket by making a new one themselves.

She was glad and touched by her daughters determined faces to replace her ruined basket to a nearly-identical one, hand-made by their own.

She went to look for a bomoh to get a charm that is believed able to win back her husband attention on her. Her husband had seem to be attracted to Madhuri ever since they first met her in a kenduri

She is Asraf only loved one often the demise of both his parents and the one that take cares of him man and boy

He found a yellow cord near the scene of the fire at his house and he thought that the bomoh had a hand in setting out the fire

To do ones full share of work . Carry out ones responsibility ( in simple words )

There were rumor ,spreading around the village that she was an evil that casted spell on people to become other animals and the garden had been protected by spirits

Everyone thought that she was the one that killed her husband cruelly and fact that she was an evil witch

No. As she showed her sympathy towards Mohd Asraf continuous pleading to care her grandmother and he was willing to secure her safety