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    Themes

    Ones must be religious in their life.

    Example: Page 223, pharagraph 3, line 1

    . . . That night he prayed as he lay on his

    lumpy plastic groundsheet and shivered

    under the thin cotton blankets which felt

    damp with the rising dew . . .

    From the story, we know that Ollies isMuslim and he also a religious person.

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    Greediness cause many problem

    Page 222, pharagraph 6, line 2 . . . he was mortgaged to the hilt and

    behind in home payment. The cararrears were frightening to think about.His loans from friends and relatives hadstretched on until there were on theverge of generating enmity. . .

    Searching for the gold make Ollie havingdebt here and there

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    Someone must not wasting money for

    enjoy Page 219, pharagraph 6, line 5

    . . . they spent money like king,

    entertaining and being entertained byhostesses in the rooming house above

    the coffee shop . . .

    Ollie and his friend like to wasted theirmoney.

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    To successful in life, we must not easy

    to give up.

    Page 221, pharagraph 1, line 2

    . . . within a month, however, they were

    back at Gemas Railway Station, agogabout the new prospects.

    To become a gold finder, we must not

    easy to give up through any challenges.

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    To achieve our dream, we must do somesacrifice

    Page 223, pharagraph 1, line 9

    . . . his wifes jewel were in thepawnshop long unredemmed. His canon

    camera had been sold for a pittance. . .

    Ollie and his wife sacrifice many things

    to provide cost for searching the gold.

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    Literary Devices

    Literary devices refers to specific

    aspects of literature, in the sense of its

    universal function as an art form which

    express ideas through language, whichwe can recognise, identify, interpret or

    analyze.

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    Literary devices of Ollies

    search for golden hope1. Symbolism

    a) Gold

    -Example: Pages 217, pharagraph 6,

    line 4-. . . and opened their eyes to seehis vision: gold, everything golden,shining with rich hue . . .

    -The symbol of gold as something thatcan make people wealthy so, they tryharder to search gold in many places.

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    b) Genie

    -Example : Page 225, pharagraph 3, line 12

    -. . .a genie released aftermillenia of bottled

    confinement . . .

    -The symbol of genie according that story is

    the genie represent the speed of rain water.

    -That means, a rain water come very quickly

    with big wave that bring Ollie and his friend

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    2. PersonificationEarths anger

    - Pages 224, pharagraph 2,line 13- . a forewarning ofEarths anger about tobe unleashed in a monster quacking anduphearing. . .

    - Earths anger is one of the personificationin this story.

    -Actually Earths anger means somedisaster that happen in the Earth

    such as landslides, flood and so on.-Earths also cannot anger, only human cananger.

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    3. Simile

    a)

    -Paragraph 2, pages 225, line 8

    -The sound became louder by the moment,

    like an express train bearing down on the

    innocent maiden strapped. . .

    -Likein this sentence is a figure that involve

    a comparison.

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    b)-Paragraph 3, pages 225, lines 12

    -. . . the mass of rain water which

    continued to grow like a jinn, a genie

    released after millenia of bottled

    confinement . . .

    -The hightlight words mean that the

    running water is being compared as bigas a released genie.

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    4. Nativisation techniques- nativisation is words thathave been borrowed or direct translation fromones native language to be written in English

    text.-Example: Pages 217, Pharagraph 4, line 2

    -. . . everything you touch into gold, abang. . .

    -In this story, Syed Adam had used the Malayword abang which means addressing someoneolder (man) or a wife calling her husband to showrespect.

    -Example: Page 216, pharagraph 4, line 3

    -. . . Megat turned to behold thepucuk paku . . .

    -Other Malay words such as ulam, pucuk paku,and sambal belacan are examples of Malay

    dishes.

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    5. Flashback-interruption of the narrative to

    show an episode that happened before

    that particular point in the story.

    -Example: Page 224, Pharagraph 4. line 6.

    -. . . he searched his mind, ranging far

    back to childhood days, forward to his time

    with a jungle squad of extra police recuitedto fight the communist terrorists. . .

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    6.Allusion-a brief reference to a person, event, orplace, real or fictitious, or to a work of art

    -Example: Page 216, pharagraph 4, line 1

    -. . .has Saddam come to defeat Bush . . .

    -Gazz Babar make a glib remark about hasSaddam come to defeat Bush.

    -Example : Pages 219, pharagraph 5, line 1

    -Gold-gold-gold! Ive found it, brothers! GOLD, ohGOLD! Megat was jumping and dancing aroundlike an oversized supporter of Hanuman theMonkey God in the Ramayana epic, whose

    fellow primates had built a bridge across a seastrait by holding one anothers tails to allow thehero to cross. . .

    -Megat here is described as excited, and acting

    like one of God in Ramayana epic.

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    7. Dialogues or sentences that portray

    Malaysian English

    -Example: Page 222, pharagraph 5, line 5

    - Hey, dont pretty-pretty yourselftoo

    much, the mermaids waiting for me will

    turn into dugong seacows for you!

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    Point of view

    The author uses the third person,

    omniscient point of view to tell the story.

    The author knows everything and

    explain the motives for the charactersaction.

    In this way, we see how Ollie with his

    friends searching for a gold and whathappen to them from beginning until the

    ending of the story.