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Ambivalence of obscurity
Following are the few examples of silence in this novel.
1. Jonathan.T to Michael.T about the death of his
wife/Michael.T’s mother.
2. Puteh/Mary to Jonathan.T/Simon Collins about her
muteness.
3. Ai Lian’s father about the grandmother –
por-por
Following are the few examples of silence in this
novel.
1. Puteh/Mary to Yusof about Michael as her own
child.
2. Michael.T to Ai Lian regarding who is the
murderer.
3. Michael.T to Ai Lian about how he get the
diamond necklace
4. Ai Lian’s mother of her past/background.
Guat eng uses different time frames for/in
her novel
There are 3 time frames/time period as
follows:
Distance past – 1940 –Truth manuscript is written
Present past – 1974 – The murder occurred and the
whole storyline
Present – 1994 – Ai Lian tells the story to Anna
Distance past
1940
During the Japanese invasion & occupation
Written by Michael Templeton about
Mary/Puteh, Simon Collins, Jonathan
Templeton, Yusof,
Present past
1974
1994
Ai Lian describes/tells what is going on in the present
days of her with Anna, her daughter.
Since
the necklace is given to Cynthia, there are
some unsatisfaction feeling to Puteh.
That
could be the motive of Puteh killing
Cynthia
genre
Posits that something is what it
is only because of what is it not
Tells us that realizing the emptiness of
all things is the key step on this path and
that its
articulation comes paradoxically in the
bodhisattva (god) ideal of saving all the
sentient (having consciousness) beings. .
It is call ‘ The Diamond of Transcendent
Wisdom' because its teaching will cut like
a diamond blade through worldly illusion
to illuminate what is real and
everlasting .
Due to the reading and
understanding of
Diamond of Sutra, Chuah Guat Eng
produced the “ Echoes Of Silence ”
Echoes of silence is a discovery of
journey, everything Ai Lian knows or
goes through is not true .