[go: up one dir, main page]
Scribd
Upload
788 views12 pages

The Taxi Man's Story

The taxi driver tells his passenger, a teacher, about his daughter Lay Choo. He is proud of her success as a university student but is disturbed when he sees her dressed inappropriately with European boys. In a moment of anger and disappointment, he slaps her and locks her in her room as punishment. This damages their trust and relationship. The story explores themes of changing social attitudes between generations and the struggles of parenting in a modernizing society.

Uploaded by

Jeanne
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
788 views12 pages

The Taxi Man's Story

The taxi driver tells his passenger, a teacher, about his daughter Lay Choo. He is proud of her success as a university student but is disturbed when he sees her dressed inappropriately with European boys. In a moment of anger and disappointment, he slaps her and locks her in her room as punishment. This damages their trust and relationship. The story explores themes of changing social attitudes between generations and the struggles of parenting in a modernizing society.

Uploaded by

Jeanne
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 12

THE TAXI MAN’S STORY

by: Catherine Lim


Catherine Lim Poh Imm (March 21, 1942)
 A best-selling Singaporean
fiction author known for writing
about Singapore society and of
themes of traditional Chinese
culture. Hailed as the “Doyenne of
Singapore writers”

 Lim has published nine


collections of short stories, five
novels, two poetry collections, and
numerous political commentaries
to date. Her social commentary in
1994, titled The Pap and the
People – A Great Affective Divide
and published in The Straits of
Times criticized the ruling political
party’s agenda.
PLOT OF THE STORY
EXPOSITION
Long time ago in Singapore, not like so crowded so
busy, last time more peaceful not so much taxi men
or so much cars and buses. People of them that time
were afraid of their parents compare today as what
he had observed every day.
RISING ACTION
The taxi man tells to his passenger all about his daughter as
well as he also said that his daughter makes him proud every
time. It was Lay Choo who studies in the University. How
good and excellent she is. He expected that his daughter
wasn’t busy for anything in behalf of focusing to her studies
but here the problem began, the time has come that he saw
his daughter with European boys outside a coffee house
wearing an inappropriate dress with make-up.
CLIMAX
When he saw the girl, he wouldn’t believe that it was his
favorite daughter he thought that he was just mistaken. But
he cannot deny the fact that it was her. He cannot describe
his feelings when he saw her that moment. He go to his
daughter and he catch her on the shoulder and neck then
slapped her. And the time that the taxi man get his daughter
and force her to ride on the taxi. At the same time, when he
locked her in her room as a punishment.
FALLING ACTION
The taxi man asked the teacher how she feels
when she’s in her place. So the trust of his father was
already destroyed, she cannot go somewhere without
anyone who can guide her, and most of all she cannot
go outside when it’s already evening.
RESOLUTION
The teacher was in hurry for a meeting that’s
why the taxi man brings her into her meeting place
where the taxi man also in a hurry for a passenger to
pick there.
CONFLICT
 Man vs. society - The taximan was internally struggling
with changes that he has seen over his life living in Singapore,
one of the main would be teenage flesh trade. He thinks that he
was an instrument in the proliferation of flesh trade on the city
as he takes on his teenage passengers and drives them to
whatever is the chosen place of business for the day.
CHARACTERS
Taxi Man – the taxi driver and the father of Lay
Choo

Teacher – the passenger of the taxi man whom


he tell his story

Lay Choo – daughter of the taxi man; always


good and excellent
POINT OF VIEW
 First Person Point of View – it was the taximan who
elaborated his story

SETTING
 Road in Singapore
THEME
o Attitudes of student towards his parents
o Loyalty for family
o Honesty

You might also like