Si Tenggang Homecoming: Exercise

si tenggang’s homecoming

ii
it’s true i have growled at my mother and grandmother
but only after having told of my predicament
that they have never brought to reason.
the wife that i began to love in my loneliness,
in the country that alienated me,
they took to their predecisions.
i have not entirely returned, i know,
having been changed by time and place,
coarsened by problems
estranged by absence.

Muhammad Haji Salleh

(a) What does si tenggang mean when he said i have growled at my mother and grandmother?

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(b) What does the word they refer to in the line, they took to their predecisions?

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(c) Which line shows that si tenggang has learnt from difficult experiences?

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(d) Do you think travelling changes a person? Why?

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