The Birth By Suhaimi Hj Mohammad

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Puzzling End of a Puzzling Story The Birth written by Suhaimi Hj Mohammad is a story of a woman, Kin who is pregnant with her fifth child. Her husband anxious about the delivery of their fifth child went to the midwife for help however the midwife acted so suspiciously saying that this time round it is not necessary for her to be with Kin during the delivery of the baby which caused Lan, the husband to feel exasperated and doubt if his wife is really pregnant but the midwife assured him that she is. Everyone was expecting the delivery of the baby very soon but in the end when Kin finally did go into labor, the baby was nowhere to be seen. The plot and setting is not really that clear in the story, all that can be assumed is that the story is set in a village where everyone knows each other and every knows what happen to one another. That may be the reason why Kin woke up on the day her baby is gone with a crowd in the house who may come to visit upon hearing the queer delivery of the baby. Since this story is written in the 1980’s, the time may be set around the 1980’s where there are yet development to have which may yet to reach the village Kin is living in, this may be why Lan really relies on the midwife for the delivery of their fifth child because there are no modern facilities provided in the village that they stay. In this story, Kin the expecting woman is portrayed as a calm woman who takes life as it is. She was not worried about what other people said about her children and accept it as just another one of human’s trait in which was written in the story “everybody tried to conceal their own lacking and weaknesses…”. She feels secure to leave everything in God’s hand and was not easily worried about things that happen around her. Although she is really expecting her baby to be born, she was not as worried as her husband and her mother when she heard

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