21st-Century Q2 Mod3 Wk3 V5
21st-Century Q2 Mod3 Wk3 V5
21st-Century Q2 Mod3 Wk3 V5
st
21 Century Literature
from the Philippines
and the World
Quarter 2 - Module 3, Week 3
Asian Literature – Japanese
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21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World – SHS
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Quarter 2 – Module 3, Week 3: Asian Literature – Japanese
First Edition, 2020
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Management Team
Chairperson: Cherry Mae L. Limbaco, PhD, CESO V
Schools Division Superintendent
In this module, you are going to write a close analysis and critical interpretation
of literary texts, applying a reading approach, and doing an adaptation of these which
require you the ability to:
b. compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and their
elements, structures, and traditions from across the globe;
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How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the cited objectives, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.
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Lesson
We are now on Lesson10 which is still about Asian literature, but this time our
focus is on the literature of the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. Let us explore the
richness of their literature.
What I Know
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A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and
principles are described in terms of characters,
figures, and events. 3. ___________________________
Example: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar
Allan Poe is an allegory for death. The moral is no
man escapes death.
B. Fill in each blank with the correct word to complete each statement below about
Japanese literature. Choose from the word bank. Write your answers in your
LITERATURE ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
1. The country which has much influence on Japanese literature was ____________.
2. Japanese literature can be divided into four periods: the _________________,
________________, ___________________, and __________________.
3. Ancient literature in Japan deals primarily with ____________ and _____________.
4. The classical literature in Japan occurred during the golden age, the
______________ period.
5. ______________ is considered the world’s first novel.
6. ______________ and ______________ intertwined during the Medieval period due
to the influence of the civil wars and the emergence of the warrior class.
7. The early modern period gave way to the rise of new genres like the Japanese
_____________, _______________, _________________, and _____________.
What’s In
In Lesson 2, you have learned about the Singaporean literature which is similar
to Philippine literature when it comes to association in culture, customs and traditions.
Now, it is time for you to discover the literary traditions of another Asian country. Before
you proceed, answer the activity.
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Prompts: Fill in the blanks with word/s to complete each statement. Write your
answers in your LITERATURE ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
What’s New
Prompts: Identify the figurative language used in each item below. Tell if it is a sample
of simile, metaphor, allusion, analogy, or allegory. Write your answer in
your ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
1. I could stare into your eyes as / a thousand years come and go.
2. You brag about your backyard so much, People will think it is the Garden of Eden.
3. Aesop’s fable “The Hound Dog and the Rabbit” teaches that incentive will spur
effort.
4. Kisses are the flowers of affection.
5. Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East:
Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
What Is It
Japanese literature has been influenced heavily by the Chinese literature from
the ancient period all the way to the Edo Period (1603-1868) which corresponds to the
early modern Japanese literature. Japanese literary works also reveal elements of
Indian and later of Western elements but above all, they reveal a distinct style which
has also greatly influenced both Eastern and Western literatures.
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Japanese literature can be divided into four periods: the ancient, classical,
medieval, and modern.
Ancient literature in Japan deals primarily with myths and legends. Tales like
the creation of Japan, where the islands came from the gemstones imbued in the
swords of gods are very prominent during this period. The celebrated writers during
this period are Ono Yasumaro, Nihon Shoki, and Man’yoshu who wrote based on real
events in the country.
The classical literature in Japan occurred during the golden age, the Heian
period. During this period, Murasaki Shikibu, one of the greatest Japanese writers,
wrote the seminal text, Tale of Genji. Tale of Genji, considered the world’s first novel,
is a very charming and accurate depiction of the Japanese court during the Heian
period under the reign of Empress Akiko.
History and literature were intertwined during the Medieval period due to the
influence of the civil wars and the emergence of the warrior class. Thus, war tales are
very prominent during this period. Besides war stories and tales, the popular form of
Japanese poetry, the renga, saw its rise.
Modern literature can be further divided into early modern, which happened
during the Edo period, and modern, which started during the Meiji period, when Japan
opened its doors to the West. The early modern gave way to the rise of new genres
like the Japanese drama, kabuki, the poetry form known for its simplicity and subtlety,
haiku, and the yomihon, a type of Japanese book which put little emphasis on
illustration.
The modern period also marked the emergence of new styles of writing.
Japanese writers started to romanticize and tried experimenting with different genres
and subject matters. The Second World War heavily affected Japanese literature but
soon, the distinct Japanese style of writing manage to regain its popularity. Some of
the prominent modern Japanese writers are Yasunari Kawabata, Kobi Abe, Takiji
Kobayashi, and Haruki Murakami to mention a few.
Source: https://www.scribd.com/document/412634387/21st-Century-Literature-of-the-
Philippines-and-of-the-World-1)
Now, read the excerpt from Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.
“So you’re all set for money, then?” the boy named Crow asks in his typical
sluggish voice. The kind of voice like when you’ve just woken up and your mouth
still feels heavy and dull. But he’s just pretending. He’s totally awake. As always.
I nod.
“How much?”
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I review the numbers in my head. “Close to thirty-five hundred in cash, plus
some money I can get from an ATM. I know it’s not a lot, but it should be enough.
For the time being.”
“Not bad,” the boy named Crow says. “For the time being.”
I give him another nod.
“I’m guessing this isn’t Christmas money from Santa Claus.”
“Yeah, you’re right,” I reply.
Crow smirks and looks around. “I imagine you’ve started by rifling drawers,
am I right?”
I don’t say anything. He knows whose money we’re talking about, so
there’s no need for any long-winded interrogations. He’s just giving me a hard
time.
“No matter,” Crow says. “You really need this money and you’re going to
get it – beg, borrow, or steal. It’s your father’s money, so who cares, right? Get
your hands on that much and you should be able to make it. For the time being.
But what’s the plan after it’s all gone? Money isn’t like mushrooms in a forest – it
doesn’t just pop up on its own, you know. You’ll need to eat, a place to sleep. One
day you’re going to run out.”
“I’ll think about that when the time comes,” I say.
“When the time comes,” Crow repeats, as if weighing these words in his
hand.
I nod.
“Like by getting a job or something?”
“Maybe,” I say.
Crow shakes his head. “You know you’ve got a lot to learn about the world.
Listen – what kind of job could a 15-year old kid get in some far-off place he’s
never been to before? You haven’t even finished junior high. Who do you think’s
going to hire you?”
I blush a little. It doesn’t take much to make me blush.
“Forget it,” he says. “You’re just starting out and I shouldn’t lay all this
depressing stuff on you. You’ve already decided what you’re going to do, and all
that’s left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it’s your life. Basically, you have
to go with what you think is right.”
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“But let’s face it – you’re only 15,” Crow goes on. “Your life’s just begun
and there’s a ton of things out in the world you’ve never laid eyes on. Things you
never could imagine.”
As always, we’re sitting beside each other on the old sofa in my father’s
study. Crow loves the study and all the little objects scattered around there. Now
he’s toying with a bee-shaped glass paperweight. If my father was at home, you
can bet Crow would never go anywhere near it.
“But I have to get out of here,” I tell him. “No two ways about it.”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right.” He places the paperweight back on the table
and links his hands behind his head. “Not that running away’s going to solve
everything. I don’t want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn’t count
on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might
not solve anything.”
The boy named Crow lets out a sigh, then rests a fingertip on each of his
closed eyelids and speaks to me from the darkness within.
“How about we play our game?” he says.
“All right,” I say. I close my eyes and quietly take a breath.
“OK, picture a terrible sandstorm,” he says. “Get everything else out of your
head.”
I do as he says, get everything else out of my head. I forget who I am, even.
I’m a total blank. Then things begin to surface. Things that – as we sit here on the
old leather sofa in my father’s study – both of us can see.
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From now on – no matter what – you’ve got to be the world’s toughest 15-
year-old. That’s the only way you’re going to survive. and in order to do that,
you’ve got to figure out what it means to be tough. You following me?”
I keep my eyes closed and don’t reply. I just want to sink off into sleep like
this, his hand on my shoulder. I hear the faint flutter of wings.
Source: p113/nick-ian/art/The-Boy-Named-Crow-456862974
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What’s More
1. What does the boy feel toward Crow? Give textual evidence to prove your point.
2. How would you describe the boy named Crow?
3. What does the sandstorm represent? Give textual evidence to prove this.
4. Why does the boy in the story have to be the toughest 15-year-old in the world?
B. Among the figures of speech you have learned from the previous activity
(metaphor, simile, analogy, allusion, allegory), which of them are used in the
excerpt The Boy Named Crow? Extract the part that shows the figure of speech and
then identify what it means. The first one is done for you.
1. Sentence: Money is not like mushrooms in a forest; it doesn’t just pop up on its own
Figure of Speech Used: Simile
Meaning: Money is going to run out one day.
2. Sentence : ________________________________________________________
Figure of Speech Used:
Meaning:_________________________________________________________
3. Sentence :________________________________________________________
Figure of Speech Used:
Meaning: _________________________________________________________
4. Sentence : ________________________________________________________
Figure of Speech Used:
Meaning:_________________________________________________________
5. Sentence :________________________________________________________
Figure of Speech Used:
Meaning: _________________________________________________________
Directions: Answer the two questions below. Write your answers in your
LITERATURE ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
a. Could you relate yourself to the main character of the story? Why or why not?
________________________________________________________________
b. Do you think all of us have experienced the storm that the text is talking about?
Support your answer.
________________________________________________________________
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What I Can Do
It is Asian week in your school. You are tasked to create an infographic digital
poster that features the characteristics of Japan’s literary texts. Your poster must be
colorful, interactive, and informative. It will be judged using the rubrics below.
Adopted: DIWA Senior High School Series, DIWA Textbooks, 2016, p. 199
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Summary
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Post Assessment
Prompts: Read carefully each statement. Choose the correct answer by writing it in
your LITERATURE ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
1. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. This is an example of _______.
A. simile B. metaphor C. analogy D. allusion
2. Her long hair was a flowing golden river is an example of what figurative language.
A. analogy B. metaphor C. allusion D. allegory
3. The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is a/an ________ for death
where the moral is no man escapes death.
A. allegory B. analogy C. allusion D. metaphor
8. What does sandstorm represent in the story The Boy Named Crow?
A. the way the world tries to take us away from our problems
B. running away could resolve a problem
C. the challenges and problems we face in our journey in life.
D. a small fate that keeps changing our directions
9. According to the boy named Crow, what does Kafka have to become?
A. a criminal on the run
B. a metaphysical concept
C. the world’s smartest fifteen-year-old
D. the world’s toughest fifteen-year-old
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Answer Key
What’s More
Module 2 Lesson 10
What Is It
Answers may vary
What I Have Learned
Answers may vary
What’s More
1. taximan – generous and hardworking father of
Module 2 Lesson 11
eight
What’s In
passenger who is a teacher going to a meeting
1.
2.The irony is the fact that the taximan criticizes
2-5.
young people of our generation for being too
6-7.
immature by hanging out at places like Hotel
8.
McElroy; while he still goes there to make an easy
9.
living as Hotel McElroy is a popular spot to earn
10-11.
more money.
12-15.
3. * how the Singaporean youth in the present times
have grown impulsive and careless compared to the
What I Know
earlier generations.
1. rising action
* Differences of the 'old' (taximan's generation) and
2. falling action
current (Lay Choo's generation) Singapore
3. setting
* How making a living in Singapore has overcome
4. plot
the need to stand up for our own beliefs and make a
5. theme
stand to whatever opposes us
6. exposition
7. climax
What I Have Learned
8. denouement
Answers may vary
9. conflict
10. mood
Module 2
What’s More
What’s In
Answers may vary
1. Chinese
What I Have Learned
2. transnational
Answers may vary
3. Poetry
4. Fiction
Module 2
5. Goh Poh Seng
What’s In
6. first person
1. E
7. teacher
2. J
8. Lay Choo
3. D
9. National University of Singapore
4. H
10. Singapore
5. C
6. F
What I Know
7. A
1. analogy
8. I
2. metaphor
9. G
3. allegory
10. B
4. simile
5. allusion
What I Know
Answers may vary
What Is It
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