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1. Tanjong rhu by minfong
ho

2. MR T. W. LI
• ALSO CALLED ” AH WAH “ BY HIS
MOTHER AND “EDWARD“ BY HIS
WIFE
• A 63 YEARS OLD SINGAPOREAN
BUSINESSMAN
• SUCCESSFUL AND WEALTHY,PROUD
OF HIS SUCCESS
• HIS HUMBLE BEGINNING – GREW UP
IN A LITTLE WOODEN HUT IN
TANJONG RHU
CHARACER TRAITS EVIDENCE
ORGANISED AND
LOGICAL
• Likes to count ships and finds stability
and security in numbers (p19)
PREFERS THE SIMPLE
LIFE
• Thinks the room in his house are too big
and too many ( p20)
• Dislikes his wife’s gatherings with her
friends where they eat “ cakes made with
expensive foreign fruit “ (p20)
A FILIAL AND LOVING
SON
• Buys binocular for his mother to see
better (p20)
• Makesure that his mother’s burial is
the right way (p19)
• Decides to take care of the family altar as
his mother would want him to ( p35)
SPLIT BETWEEN
TRADITIONAL AND
MODERN VALUES
AND BELIEFS
• Proud of the modern life he has built but
tries to keep tradition alive in his home
• Wants to continue the custom of
ancestral worship but feels embarassed
about talking to his dead mother (p36)

3. AH MA • Mr t. w. li mother
• Ying’s grandmother “popo”
• Mother of nine
children,grandmother of thirty-
four and great grandmother of
seventeen
• Small, thin with grey hair and a
bent back
CHARACER TRAITS EVIDENCE
PREFERS THE SIMPLE LIFE • Rears chicken in the garden (p20)
• Tells her son that she has everything
needs and does not need the things he
can buy (p 20,22)
TREASURES FAMILY • Remembers the time when she was
poor but happy, when she was close to
her son ( p28)
STUBBORN • Refuses to go for an eye operation to
remove her cataracts (p19)
• Insisted on using real candles for years
(p26)
TRADITIONAL • Takes care of the family altar (p25)
• Makes sure that the ancestral worship
customs are followed properly (p25-26)

4. ying
MR LI ‘S DAUGHTER
GOING TO FURTHER HER
STUDIES IN NEW YORK
AH MA GRANDCHILDREN
CHARACER TRAITS EVIDENCE
LOVING AND CARING • Shows her concern for her father that his food is
getting cold (p25) and that he will be late
• Takes care of her ill grandmother in the hospital
(p31)
• Donates blood to her grandmother (p31)
HELPFUL • Volunteers to help her grandmother with the
rituals at the family altar (p25)
STRONG-HEADED • Argues with her grandmother (p25)
• Argues with her second aunt over the burial
clothes for her grandmother (p31)
• Argues with her father in the hospital (p32)
SPLIT BETWEEN
TRADITIONAL AND
MODERN VALUES AND
BELIEFS
• Calls her father and grandmother by their
traditional chinese address ‘baba’ and ‘popo’
speaks in cantonese (p25-26)
• Does not see the importance of following
traditions properly and keeps telling her
grandmother that ‘it doesn’t matter’ (p26)

5. THANK YOU