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Declamation Piece

This document tells the story of a young girl who goes to a party while her mother asks for water. When she returns home, she finds her mother dead with a glass in her hand, having tried to get the water herself. It suggests the girl's carelessness led to her mother's death. The second part is written from the perspective of a "bad girl" who accuses others of neglecting and abandoning her, leading her to act out, though she acknowledges she needs help to change.

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Declamation Piece

This document tells the story of a young girl who goes to a party while her mother asks for water. When she returns home, she finds her mother dead with a glass in her hand, having tried to get the water herself. It suggests the girl's carelessness led to her mother's death. The second part is written from the perspective of a "bad girl" who accuses others of neglecting and abandoning her, leading her to act out, though she acknowledges she needs help to change.

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�A Glass of Cold Water�

unknown

Everybody calls me young, beautiful, wonderful. Am I? Look at my hair, my lips, my


red rosy cheeks and a pair of blinkering eyes.

I remember, somebody says that I look like my mother that I look like my mother.
But that when she was young.

Now, I am much lovelier than she is. I�m a mortal Venus. Oops! What time is it? I
must get ready for the party!

Beep-beep�!A-huh! Here they are! Yes, I�m coming!

"Child, are you still there?"

"Hmp! That�s my mama"

"Child, are you still there? Will you please get me a glass of cold water?"

"Mama, I�m in a hurry!"

"Please child, try to get me a glass of cold water."

"Mama, please, try to get it on your own."

"Please child, try to get me a glass of cold water!"

At the party, I danced and danced the whole night.

You see, I can�t leave the party at once. I have to danced with everybody who
proposed to me. At last, the party is over. I�m very tired. Very, very tired.

So, I went home to tell mama what happened.

"Mama, I�m home! It�s very quiet. "Mama, I�m home!" Nobody answers.

Where is she? I look for her in the sala, but she�s not there. Where is she? A-huh!
In the kitchen!

I saw my mama, lying down on the floor, dead. With a glass on her hand. I remember,
she tried to get it.

Oh, God, just for the glass of cold water! Mama! Mama! Oh, Mama!

Bad Girl

Hey! Everybody seems to be staring at me..


You! You! All of you!
How dare you to stare at me?
Why? Is it because I�m a bad girl?
A bad girl I am, A good for nothing teen ager, a problem child?
That�s what you call me!
I smoke. I drink. I gamble at my young tender age.
I lie. I cheat, and I could even kill, If I have too.
Yes, I�m a bad girl, but where are my parents?
You! You! You are my good parents?
My good elder brother and sister in this society where I live?
Look�look at me�What have you done to me?
You have pampered and spoiled me, neglected me when I needed you most!

Entrusted me to a yaya, whose intelligence was much lower than mine!


While you go about your parties, your meetings and gambling session�
Thus� I drifted away from you!
Longing for a father�s love, yearning for a mother�s care!
As I grew up, everything changed!
You too have changed!
You spent more time in your poker, majong tables, bars and night clubs.
You even landed on the headlines of the newspaper as crooks, pedlars and
racketeers.

Now, you call me names, accuse me of everything I do to myself?


Tell me! How good are you?
If you really wish to ensure my future�
Then hurry�.hurry back home! Where I await you, because I need you�
Protect me from all evil influences that will threathen at my very own

understanding�
But if I am bad, really bad�then, you�ve got to help me!
Help me! Oh please�Help me!

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