Short Story Comparison (Hantu Tetek and Cik Jamilah)

The two stories are about the Malay community living in Malaysia or Singapore. Both stories written by a teenage Malay writer. Both stories are very short story and easy to read and understand.

The Hantu Tetek Story is about the fiction ghost in Malay community, which was told to children to avoid them from stay outside the house after dark. The story is about Sarimah flashback of her childhood. Hantu tetek is the main character in the story with very details description presented by the writer about it. Writer describes the Hantu Tetek with a big breast and nipples, which used to crash the head of children by squeezing between her breasts until the nipples become united. Setting of the story took place mainly in the Malay village except at the beginning and the end of the story, which is at the Hospital. This story reach it climax when t

“Cik Jamilah” has same ending style as “The Hantu Tetek Story”. Both have an open ending which do not review what is going to happened next. The readers were given a freedom to predict what is going to happen to the character and the story.

Different from The Hantu Tetek Story, Cik Jamilah was written in first person point of view. The main character is the schoolgirl and Cik Jamilah. Other character is the school guard and the girl father. The story reach it climax when Cik Jamilah offer a ride to the girl.

This story have unclear theme. However I manage to dig some theme from it. One of the themes I can think of is about school life. It is about school life of teenage girl who do not have a lot to think of except what happened around her school. Another theme I can think of is about teenage vision vs. adult vision. It is about the vision of the girl, which is different from C

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