Journal 9: Reflection on short stories Victoria and her Kimono

Based on the story Victoria and Her Kimono written by M. Shammughalingam, the themes that can be identified are fixation in other culture and pretence. It can be found from the character Mr Ramanan or Albert and Vickneswari or also known as VictoriaBased on this theme, Victoria was pretending to really accept the Japanese culture so that she can save her husband. In this story, it can be seen that it is good to pretend in order to save something. It was only for a short time because she never forgets about her own culture. From my point of view; there are two themes that have something to do with me. The themes are pretend and love. I will do the same thing as what Victoria has done. Sometimes we need to pretend in order to take care of one’s feeling or our own importance.