Bahasa Indonesia
In Bahasa Indonesia class this quarter, we as a class read Burung-burung Manyar, a literary novel that is written by Y.B. Mangunwijaya. The story is about two main characters name Teto and Atik. This novel tells the story of how Teto is facing all of the challenges and decision in life during the time before Indonesia's independence. I think that this book has a avery interesting story plot. Y.B. Mangunwijaya also use a lot of metaphor by using complex vocabulary that sometimes made me confused about what the book is saying. From reading this book, we are given assignments. The first one is that we had to make an argumentative essay from a line, a sentence, or a paragraph from one chapter that we had been read. The part that we chose should be interesting, the part that makes us question about everything, or a quote that has similarity to our personal experience or a film with different title. Our second assignment is we had to make a creative essay about the topic that are in the book, but doesn't necessarily explained. For example in the book, Teto gave Dora a love letter. But the content of the letter is not in the book. So from these two assignments, I did better on the argumentative essay. I think that the things that I need to improve is my chosen of words, and the analysis.
How this book related to intercultural awareness is how this book is telling a story of one individual, Teto, is facing all of his struggles of life with the background of Indonesia achieving independence. From this book, it helps me to increase my knowledge and awareness of Indonesia, and this book also help me have the knowledge of Indonesia deeper as shown from the different perspective of characters that are in this book. I know now that Indonesia is a country that has a lot of obstacles and as we are a developing country.
Below is my argumentative essay:
How this book related to intercultural awareness is how this book is telling a story of one individual, Teto, is facing all of his struggles of life with the background of Indonesia achieving independence. From this book, it helps me to increase my knowledge and awareness of Indonesia, and this book also help me have the knowledge of Indonesia deeper as shown from the different perspective of characters that are in this book. I know now that Indonesia is a country that has a lot of obstacles and as we are a developing country.
Below is my argumentative essay: