If last time i shared with you the advantages of reading novels, this time i am going to share with you why some of us hated malay novels. This is interesting which i myself didnt notice it until one day, i stumbled upon a blog.
1. The characters name are too fancy.
Many of their names are too european and not even sounding malays. Why cant we use for the hero and heroine names like idris, nuh, or hud and khadijah, fatimah, or latifah?
2. Repititive storyline.
It is like there are this pattern. Which if we read many many malay novels, we will find the similarities of the storyline in each of this malay novels.
3. Stereotyped character.
Why there are always the poor and the rich? Why would there necessarily be the son or daughter of dato' or tan sri?
Why would they portray the hero and the heroine handsome and gorgeous? Why wouldnt they create the characters are black, ugly, or cross-eyed?
4. Happy ending.
Why would there always be the happy ending all the time?
5. Not mind challenging.
Everything change easily. For example the bad mother-in-law suddenly turned into a nice person at the end of the story.
6. Bored theme.
It is always love. Cant it be quarrelling, action, thriller or anything else besides love only?
Actually not all malay novels are bad. For example the Jemari Seni novels, or Hlovate's, or the famous Fixi novels which i really eager to get it myself one day.
Thats all for now. Thank you for reading :)
Have to agree with this one :)
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