Hello all readers, I am now proud to present to you the next post by yours truly. In this post I will be writing about my secondary-two literature book called "Emily of Emerald Hill" and I will be giving a basic background of it and also the story overview.
Firstly, the author of this play is a Singaporean woman called Stella Kon. Who is she? She is a Singaporean writer, she was born in Edinburgh in 1944.She was educated in Singapore and she descended from two old Singapore families.She has 2 brothers and 1 sister and was married in 1966 and later divorced.She lived for many years in Malaysia,has two sons and has been writing for thirty years.
Enough about that, lets move on to the story. The story is mainly about events that change the life of a woman named Emily. A rough outline of Emily is that she is a Nonya matriarch who dominates her family, yet in the end finds that she loses what she loves most. The whole story is a one-woman play and there are no other actors involved.
Emily was born in the 20th century and she grew up with the mindset of how traditional woman should act. She was abandoned by her parents at an early age and influence her to think that woman in the world have no social status, which lead to her domineering behavior in the future. In the future she is married to a rich family and she eventually became the matriarch. She plans everything for her family and causes them to only depend on her for everything. Later in the story, one of her son, Richard, grew tired of her and made decisions on his own and work in a horse-riding school instead of studying. Emily used emotional blackmail to persuade Richard to quit which results in his suicide.
Kheong, Emily's husband, was also being controlled by her and eventually found another mistress and refused to come back to Emily's side. Emily once again tries to persuade him to come back which leads to Kheong refusing to see her before he died of illness. At the end, all of her children left her and some parts of the house were sold and thus leaving Emily alone in the house.
I hope that everyone enjoyed that play and hope that you all can buy the book for more information on it. You can also go to http://www.emilyofemeraldhill.com/ for more information. BYE ALL !!
This is a very good post as this is actually a summary of the story. It is very clear and people who have not read the book will be able to have at least a basic understanding of it after reading the post.I recommend that you can elaborate more on the important events in this book such as Richard's death and others. You can also talk about some of the themes in tis book so that readers will know more about the story. Thank you.
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