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Saturday, April 11, 2009

FROM ZERO TO HERO

Once you look at this lady, you may think who is this little, short and sweet person. Never judge a book by its cover that is the saying that suits this compelling writer who wrote the novel, “This End of the Rainbow”. Adibah Amin started to write this book since she was sixteen. As most of the Malaysian English writers, her works also revolved around our Malaysian culture and integration. Yes, its shows those Malaysian writers do think alike. Why most of the stories written by Malaysian writers gyrated around the same issues? This is because they shared the same culture, experiences and linguistics background. Adibah Amin has a strong culture root which shape herself to write down about the colourful minds and expectations of Malaysian people. The common issues that were being emphasized in Malaysian masterpieces were none other than independence integration, freedom to write, friendships, and culture and tradition. In this novel Adibah Amin touched about the integration issue, how Malaysian leaders fought for independence the ways to cultivate nationalism and being proud of one’s root, culture and tradition. As we all know our Malaysian writers are still fighting for their right to express their thoughts freely. What had happened to these Malaysian treasures? Their freedom to write was obstructed because of the introduction of the National Language Act. Most of them were marginalized in their own country and by their own people. Is writing in English is a sin? It is up to us Malaysian to decide. When we think about Malaysian future, it maybe ends up with any “syndrome”. At this moment Malaysian integration culture and tradition are cracking and this illness is spreading like a plague. However, we have to change our attitudes that we have right now for the sake of our future. In this novel we can clearly see that some of the issues are related to a particular race. For example Chinese, during the World War 2 era were being related with the Communist movement.
Is there any future for MLIE? We as the next generation should ask this question to ourselves. So, please support our Malaysian literature in English from disappearing like a dead man buried in grave.

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