Royal University of Phnom Penh

Institute of Foreign Languages

Department of English

Not Poor, Just Broke

Lecturer: Chenda Soviphea (CSVP)

 Pre-reading activities
1. What do you like about your school?

2. Who has been your best friend in school life?

Why?

3. Who was your most favorite teacher? Why?

 Pre-reading activities
• What is Negro?
- Black ancestor
- Lexicon of American and worldwide
classification of race and ethnicity in the late
1960s
- Negro = Black
 Pre-reading activities (Con.)
• What is matter being Negroes?
- White and Black
- More emotional
- Unrestrained
- Animal-like
- “Badge of slavery”
 Task 2: Prediction
“ I have never learned hate at home, or shame. I had
to go to school for that I was about seven years old
when I got my first big lesson”

Work in group and discuss the questions.

1. What is a living environment in Richards family, do
you think?
2. How is his living environment different from the
school environment he has attended, do you think?
 Task 2: Prediction (Con.)
“ I have never learned hate at home, or shame. I had
to go to school for that I was about seven years old
when I got my first big lesson”

3. What should be a factor (s) leading to such

difference?
4. Can you guess what a big lesson Richard has learnt
at school might be?
 Vocabulary
Please do it for 15mn.

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 Characters
1. Mr. Richard Gregory
2. Helene Tucker 
3. Richard’s teacher
4. Richard’s mum
5. Richard’s classmates 
 Summary
• Teacher will ask one/two of the students to
summary the whole story.
 Comprehension Questions
1. a. Why did the teacher seat Richard at the back of the
classroom, in a chalk circle draw around it?
b. Did Richard think his teacher’s decision was
properly made? Give reasons.

2. What did the teacher collect the money from the

students’ dads for? Describe.

3. Why did Richard want to top the amount of money of

Helene’s dad’s money?
 Comprehension Questions (Con.)
4. a. What response did the teacher has to Richard’s
saying that his dad gave him 15 dollars?
b. How did such response affect Richard for his future?
Describe.

5. What was Richard’s mother attitude toward the

mackinaw? Describe.

6. What was Richard’s feeling about the relief truck at

the end of the text?
 Characteristics Analyses
Characters Adjectives Examples

Independent/
Hard-working
Mr. Richard
Gregory
Sensitive
 Characteristics Analyses
Characters Adjectives Examples

Kind

Helene
Tucker
Empathetic
 Characteristics Analyses
Characters Adjectives Examples

Mean, rude,
discriminati
Richard’s ve, serious
Teacher Immoral,
unethical,
unprofessio
nal, too
honest
 Characteristics Analyses
Characters Adjectives Examples

Violent,
abusive,
Richard’s loyal
mum
Mean
Saving
Caring
 Characteristics Analyses
Characters Adjectives Examples

Sympathetic

Richard’s
Classmates
Noisy
 Literary Analysis

Symbolization of School Symbolization of Mackinaw

Symbolization of Mackinaw
 Literary Analysis
• Literary Point of View
- Speaker
- Narrator
- Person
- Or Voice created by authors to tell the stories
 Literary Point of View

 First-person point of view

 Second-person point of view

Third-person point of view

 Literary Point of View

Q3: What was your mum’s worst memory in life?

Third-person point of view

Q1: What was your best memory in childhood?

 First-person point of view

Q2: Can you guess when was the happiest

moment in my life?
 Second-person point of view
 Flashback
• Recount past actions of his/her main or manor
characters

• Ex: Richard Gregory told the story of himself in the

past.

*** …I wish Helene could hear it too. It wasn’t until I was

twenty-nine years old and married and making money
that finally got her out of my system. Helene was sitting
in the calssroom when I learned to be ashamed of
myself.
 Discussion
Match the question to the correct aspect of
literary devices.
• What had Richard encountered in his life
through narrative?

☐ symbolism
☐ first-person point of view
☐ flashback
 Discussion
Match the question to the correct aspect of
literary devices.
• What had Richard encountered in his life
through narrative?

☐ symbolism
 first-person point of view
☐ flashback
 Discussion
Match the question to the correct aspect of
literary devices.
• How did Richard view his past experience?

☐ symbolism
☐ first-person point of view
☐ flashback
 Discussion
Match the question to the correct aspect of
literary devices.
• How did Richard view his past experience?

☐ symbolism
☐ first-person point of view
 flashback
 Discussion
Match the question to the correct aspect of
literary devices.
• How did Richard react to the Negro Payday
and the Relief truck?

☐ symbolism
☐ first-person point of view
☐ flashback
 Discussion
Match the question to the correct aspect of
literary devices.
• How did Richard react to the Negro Payday
and the Relief truck?

 symbolism
☐ first-person point of view
☐ flashback
 Types of Irony
 Irony is when the reality is opposite of what we
expect.
2. Verbal Irony
• Sarcasm
1. Dramatic Irony • Understatement
• Tragic Irony • Overstatement
• Stages of Dramatic Irony • Socratic Irony

3. Situational Irony
• Cosmic Irony
• Poetic Irony
• Structural Irony
• Historical Irony
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Irony
 Dramatic Irony
Dramatic irony is when we have more information
about the circumstances than a character.

Ex. When you know a trap has been set, and you watch
someone walk into it.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RZFYuX84n1U&feature=emb_logo
Verbal Irony
 Verbal Irony

Verbal irony is when someone says something, but

means the opposite.

Ex. When you get an "F" on your term paper and say,
"Wow, I did a really good job on my term paper!”

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiR-
bnCHIYo&feature=emb_logo
 Sarcasm
Sarcasm is an ironic statement meant to mock or
ridicule another person.

Ex: “I love that dress. The design really highlights

your small butt.”

“Did your parents have any children that
lived?”
Situational Irony
 Situational Irony
Situational irony is when we expect one thing, but get
the opposite.

Ex.
• When you told the seller to buy a can of Coca Cola
and put in the plastic bag, but it was Pepsi inside.
• You are working for Sumsung company, and you use
IPhone.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=tqg6RO8c_W0&feature=emb_logo
 Stop and Check!

1. Mme. Loisel is dissatisfied with her place in

society at the beginning of "The Necklace." In
her efforts to pretend to be higher class by
borrowing a beautiful necklace, she and her
husband end up even lower in society.

☐ Dramatic irony
☐ Verbal irony
☐ Situational irony
 Stop and Check!

1. Mme. Loisel is dissatisfied with her place in

society at the beginning of "The Necklace." In
her efforts to pretend to be higher class by
borrowing a beautiful necklace, she and her
husband end up even lower in society.

☐ Dramatic irony
☐ Verbal irony
Situational irony
 Stop and Check!

2. The main irony in the story is that the Loisels

take on tremendous debt in order to replace an
apparently expensive necklace that was actually a
cheap imitation.

☐ Dramatic irony
☐ Verbal irony
☐ Situational irony
 Stop and Check!

2. The main irony in the story is that the Loisels

take on tremendous debt in order to replace an
apparently expensive necklace that was actually a
cheap imitation.

 Dramatic irony
☐ Verbal irony
☐ Situational irony
 Stop and Check!
3. M. Loisel expects that Mme. Loisel will be excited
by an invitation to a fancy party, since his wife often
bemoans the lack of elegant things in their life.
However, Mme. Loisel becomes even more distressed
by the prospect of the party because she feels she
does not own the clothing and jewelry necessary to
attend properly.

☐ Dramatic irony
☐ Verbal irony
☐ Situational irony
 Stop and Check!
3. M. Loisel expects that Mme. Loisel will be excited
by an invitation to a fancy party, since his wife often
bemoans the lack of elegant things in their life.
However, Mme. Loisel becomes even more distressed
by the prospect of the party because she feels she
does not own the clothing and jewelry necessary to
attend properly.

☐ Dramatic irony
☐ Verbal irony
 Situational irony
 Stop and Check!
4. Richard: “My dad said he’d…”
Teacher: “Sit down, Richard, you’d disturbing
the class.”
Richard: “My Dad said he’d give…fifteen dillars”

☐ Dramatic irony
☐ Verbal irony
☐ Situational irony
 Stop and Check!
4. Richard: “My dad said he’d…”
Teacher: “Sit down, Richard, you’d disturbing
the class.”
Richard: “My Dad said he’d give…fifteen dillars”

☐ Dramatic irony
 Verbal irony
☐ Situational irony
 Quotation Interpretation
a. And I’d hand the money right in. I wasn’t going to wait
until Monday to buy me a daddy. (line 54-55)

Purpose

Implication
 Quotation Interpretation
b. We are collecting this money for you and your kind,
Richard Gregory. If your daddy can give fifteen dollars you
have no business being on relief. (Line 73-75)

Purpose

Implication
 Quotation Interpretation
c. I’d drop money on her stoop late at night on my way
back from shinning shoes in the taverns. And she had a
daddy, and he had a good job. He was a paper hanger.
(Line 20-22)

Purpose

Implication
 Quotation Interpretation
d. It was a nice warm mackinaw and it had a hood, and
my mom beat me and called me little rat when she found
out I stuffed it in the bottom of a pail full of garbage way
over on Cottage Street. Line (97-99)

Purpose

Implication