Esteem Needs Theory of Motivation

20 missed the situation in Thailand, which was completely different with New York at that time. Ho stated that writing about the dappled sunlight and school children of home brought them closer to her; it aired on paper the part of her which could not be found at any place in America. Ho’s short story told about Dawan’s struggles toward her brother and father’s resistance when they knew that Dawan had won a scholarship to the city high school. That short story was submitted to a reader of the Council for Interracial Books for children, for their annual short story contest. Ho won the award for the Asian American division unpublished Third World Authors. Then Ho’s short story was encouraged to enlarge the story into a novel. Ho stated that she never enjoyed the children books in her childhood which mostly told about a life of princesses and emperors or any other story of animals such as elephants, peacocks, and tigers. Through her short story Sing to the Dawn, Ho was inspired to write new model of novel which described realistic story of one girl’s struggle to get an education in the city. According to Seybolt on her comment in a School Library Journal Review, the author’s love of her native countryside was evident in her vivid description. Seybolt as cited by Yew 2005 also noted that Dawan’s story provides a perspective on women’s liberation far removed and much more important than breaking into the local little league. A kirkus critic also maintained that the imagery of lotus flower, which seemed delicate and small, described someone’s passion and determination. 21 Although the background of the story is in Thailand, but the novel was a Singaporean period – peace in its choice of theme, that described how urban migration and modern education improved women’s lives. By urbanization system that was central in the first phase of Singapore’s development, the PAP government was erasing traditional habitats of ethnic group such as; Malay kampungs, Chinese Village, and exposing selected segments of the population to modern education. Through Sing to the Dawn , as one of Ho’s children tale, which was a didactic one, telling about a potential reformer of rural Asian social operations and evils. The reformer was a village girl who strived to reach the city and higher modern education in order that she may return to the village and uplift the backward condition of her community. The novel depicted the development of modern women in theological terms. It suggested that women became legitimate members of the community and trailblazers of progress only by moving to metropolitan canter of advancement. However, by this novel, the author was only partially indoctrinated in the ideology of urban progressivism but also suggested that patriarchal modernist nations of progressive self and citizen fill women’s lives with contradiction, and fracture communist. Sing to the Dawn tells the struggles of young protagonist, Dawan, after announcing as the one female student who got the scholarship to pursue higher education in the City School. Because of social and economic opportunities that come to her with this award, Dawan is singled out for spearheading the changes her Marxist school teacher has envisioned for the villagers. She is expected to bring back to the villagers not only modern knowledge and technological tools “how to raise new crops and use better fertilizers,” 17 but new ways of