Posted at: 9:32 PM
TEAQ paragraph-The Loner
What are your impressions of the boy?
My impression of the boy is that he is an insecure and shy person. He always “leans against the playground wall” .this proofs that he treats the wall as an emotional support which provides him with security. Also, he always stays back against the wall and “never plays”. This shows that he is always returning, desiring to join the other children, but at the same time too shy to do so. This shows that the boy is a shy and insecure person.
What is your impression of the children?
My impression of the children is that they are very mean and stubborn, not willing to step out of their comfort zone and take the initiative. They will always be “in slow huddled groups, low talking” whenever they walk pass the boy. From this, I can infer that they will always be in their own “familiar clique”, whispering, which could mean that they are most probably gossiping about the boy, instead of taking the initiative and making friends with the boy. This shows that they are very mean and also stubborn.
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Posted at: 2:44 AM
I feel that Jack deserves my sympathy because he is a filial son. All he ever wanted was for his mother to have a better life. Though it was wrong for him to trespass into the giant’s house to steal, his intentions all along were good. When he got the beans from the funny-looking man, he was told that if he “plant them overnight, by morning they grow right up to the sky." This aroused his curiosity and he agreed to exchange his cow for the beans because the man had promised him, saying that “if it doesn't turn out to be true you can have your cow back." When he stole from the giant, he was always thinking about his mother, just like when he exchanged the cows for the beans. Therefore, I feel that Jack is a filial son and deserves my sympathy.
I also sympathize with the giant because he had died innocently, without even knowing why. He was just trying to catch the thief (jack). The gold coins, the hen which lays golden eggs, and the harp could have been the giant’s source of income and in this case, he is the victim and not jack. Jack had trespassed into his house and stolen from him, and in the end, it was jack who benefited from the theft and not the giant himself. Therefore, I feel that the giant also deserves my sympathy.
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Posted at: 6:29 PM
No, i do not sympathise with the joker.
First of all, he has proved himself to be a cunning and cruel man by turning his man against one and other and asking each of them to kill each other during the heist. One of them said that he had 'killed the alarm guy, because the boss said he should get rid of him after his job was done so everyone will get a bigger share of the money' just moments before he realised that the joker had also told someone else the same thing and was then killed. During the heist, all of the henchmen were killed and the last person, the driver, was killed by the joker who was in disguise .The joker had made use of his henchmen’s' greed and was cunning enough to think of such an idea which ultimately makes him the one who gets all the money. This proofs that he is a self-centered and cunning man, who cannot be trusted.
Secondly, the joker treats murder as a form of leisure, and kills people at whim, which makes him an inhumane person. He also kills for money. He feels that ‘why do something for free when you are good at it’. He would kill anyone who gets into his way and also kill people just to get to his goals. He told everyone on the television that 'as long as batman doesn't show his face in public, people in Gotham city shall die every day. He makes good of his threat and killed numerous people in different and horrifying ways which the police could not stop. In the end, he was just trying to prove that batman can also be corrupted. This also shows that he does not take the lives of others seriously.
Though the joker has had a sad and miserable past, I feel that that does not give him the right to take away lives. He should not be killing people and making the victim’s family sad and miserable like him, instead he should be trying to help people.
What have i learnt from the lesson:
From this lesson, i learnt that villians may not only be bad, they may also have a good side to them. Though first impressions do matter, we should always take time with someone before we judge his or her character.
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Posted at: 1:40 AM
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