Victoria and Her Kimono- M. Shanmughalingam

Victoria and Her Kimono written by M.Shanmughalingam is a story about an Indian family’s lifestyle that is really into West culture during World War. Mr Ramanan, who is the main character, really excited to have such a West lifestyle until he willing to change his wife’s name to Victoria. Well, the story is quit complicated to understand due to it is a story during world war. In the story, when the country is conquered by Japanese, Victoria make her move by learning Japanese language and she learns how to wear the Kimono, Japanese tradition clothes. Her attempt had saved his whole family when Japanese army comes to their house, because Victoria speaks in Japanese. In short, we should be able to adapt with other culture in other country so we do not brings problem that everyone will assume us badly.

Mala by K.S Maniam

Mala, written by K.S Maniam is a story that reveals about the hardship of women calls wife in order to help her husband by earn some money with doing job. It is one of good example that should be followed by other women, for those who are able to work and gain extra money to backup the whole family. This is because, nowadays there are many things that cannot being achieve due to the increasing of life and demanding in many sectors. Both husband and wife should realize on how they want to survive it. For men, it is common thing that they should work to support their family life, but for those who are in such average family must have their backup so they would not face their hardship in future. That is why women should play their roles helping their guy so together they can raise their children in best ways. Furthermore, nowadays men and women are in the same level in working area, instead some arena is dominated by women. Other than that, for a single mother who has to support their family by their own also should work in order to not let their children live in such miserable. Women, in short has become one of the important roles in working site as they want to have a backup for their family, not just helping their husband, but for single mother, they need to.