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Sadie and MaudPPISMP PSV 09 SEMESTER 3

Nur Syazwani Binti Sanusi

Adelina Ling Ging Ee

Azijah Binti Jaang

Nazifa Binti Hanipah

Abdul Hadi Bin Khamis @ Kahmis

FIRST STANZA

Maud went to college.Sadie stayed home.Sadie scraped life

With a fine toothed comb.

FIRST STANZA

• Maud study for a betterment in her own future life.

Maud went to college

• Sadie living in an era. It shows different kind of life among them.

Sadie stayed at

home• Life is not easy for Sadie who does not go to

college, she has to struggle to survive. We can conclude that Maud will have a better future than her sister Sadie.

Sadie scraped life

• Her comb found every strand this is because she chooses to use her physical beauty to survive.

With a fine toothed comb

SECOND STANZA

She didn't leave a tangle inHer comb found every strand.Sadie was one of the livingest

chicksIn all the land.

“She didn't leave a tangle in

Her comb found every strand.”The first and second lines of stanza two depicts the continuation of the previous lines. Her struggle indeed makes her survive, she can handle every problem coming to her, with her own way of life that she chooses (by not going to college).

“Sadie was one of the livingest chicks

In all the land.”Lines three and four of stanza two illustrates that Sadie is the happiest girl in her community despite the fact that she has to undergo many severe problems in her struggle. Her struggle to survive by choosing “the best” life that suits her personality does make her happy.

THIRD STANZA

Sadie bore two babiesUnder her maiden

name.Maud and Ma and PapaNearly died of shame.

THIRD STANZASadie bore two

babies

• She has two babies.

Under her maiden name

• She having babies outside the wedlock (outside the marriage)

Maud and

Ma and

Papa

• She makes her sister, Maud, and her parents very ashamed. Maud and her two parents obviously follow the consensus of “good girl” as required by The Cult of True Womanhood spread since the nineteenth century America that a girl must keep her virginity before getting married.

Nearly

died of

shame

• What Sadie has done really makes them almost die because of feeling humiliated by society.

FOURTH STANZA

When Sadie said her last so-long

Her girls struck out from home.

(Sadie left as heritageHer fine-toothed comb.)

FOURTH STANZAWhen Sadie said her last so-long

Sadie is about to die

Her girls struck out from home.

She want her daughter become like her. Be yourself

(Sadie left as heritage

She live with the path that she choose.

Her fine-toothed comb.)

As a heritage is an optimistic twist on the way she lived her live

FIFTH STANZA

Maud, who went to college,

Is a thin brown mouse.She is living all alone

In this old house.

FIFTH STANZA

Maud, who went to college,Is a thin

brown mouse.

She is living all alone

In this old house.

• She is college graduate, with a seemingly propitious future

• She does not become successful. She is starving and barely hanging on to life.

• She living in the home alone

• Ended up with a bleak and lonely life

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