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The Inheritance PDF
The Inheritance PDF
Born in 1963.
Currently a practising
lawyer, an active
columnist and a well
respected public figure.
Plot
Expository
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
Place Setting
Tanah Merah
His in-laws being pure-blooded Kelantanese from Tanah Merah and
[page 56, line 36]
Surau
men from the surau were expected at any moment for the prayers.
[page 58, line 118]
Driveway
Cars were doubled parked along the driveway. [page 57, line 96]
Just then, he heard a car pull up in the driveway. [page 61, line 225]
Place Setting
In the house
Back in the house Tajuddeen fingered the thick wedge
of cash [page 58, line 126]
Meanwhile Mahmud entered the house again
[page 59, line 144]
Kitchen
He tipped the cigarette ash carelessly into the ashtray
and strode into the kitchen [page 59, line 148]
As he walked out of the kitchen he bumped into
Tajuddeen [page 59, line 159]
Place Setting
Hallway
Tajuddeen stepped out into the hallway again. [page 59, line
174]
Bedroom
He saw that his mother-in-law was about to descend from her
bedroom. [page 59, line 175]
Study
and half carried into the study where there was a guest
bathroom. [page 60, line 191]
Living room
across the living room to a specially cordoned-off area. [page
60, line 197]
Time Setting
Evening
That evening,
Mahmud, whilst,
ignoring his stern
brother-in-law
[page 56, line 53]
Night
Culture Setting
Greedy
people
Cultural
Settings
Loving
people
Rich but
simple
people
Characters
Major characters
Tajuddeen
Mahmud
Usman Khalid
Major Character
Tajuddeen
Greedy person
- waited a long time twenty two years
- plotted patiently, acquiring company directerships,
cars, land
[page 61, line 218]
Mahmud
- Sense of humour
- Remarkable ugliness
- Bad dress sense
- Small & dark with a badly pock marked face
Smoker
- throaty, hoarse voice , the trimbre of which seemed
yellowed wth nicotine
[page 55, line 6]
Cunning person
- how to spend the wifes inheritance.
[page 57, line 77]
Disloyal person
- Misbehaved with maid
Usman Khalid
- Rich man
- Has four daughters
- Father in law of Tajuddeen & Mahmud
Disloyalty
- Has a second wife and three sons
- a woman with the three small children
- undeniable parentage of their father that jow,
those shallow, fish like eyes
[page 61, line 240]
Characters
Minor characters
Usman Khalids wife
Aishah
Aniza
Ahmad
Tengku Kamil
A woman with three small children
Literature Reflection
http://j17485.blogspot.com/2005/03/inheritanceby-karim-raslan.html