This Loner Poem
Friday, July 31, 2009 | 8:57 PM
My blood boiled in fury and anger.
Everyone’s action for me was pain.
No one bothered to talk to this lone kid standing
My voice was lost, I was shouting in vain.
I extended my hand in a sign of friendship.
My hand was slapped of, I was stranded in the rain.
They said that the rain, comes before the rainbow.
But for me, everyday was rain.
Their merriment and happiness
Every happy word that they say
Was my pain and sadness.
Because everyday would be like today.
No one will bother, about this loner
They will walk as they do everyday
Sometimes I wish to be like them
A group of friends and merriment.
Then my fantasy snaps back to reality
And I realise that it’s just a dream.
Will I ever be like them.
Or is the wall my only friend?
This Loner boy
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | 8:12 PM
This poor loner boy.
The Loner
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | 3:44 AM
I have mixed feelings about the loner. Although the children are also unmoving and unfriendly to the boy, i think that his situation is also because of his hesistance to take the initiative to make friends. This shows that the loner is anti-social . Instead of trying to socialise with the children, he "leans against the playground wall" indulging his time in "boredom beating tricks". Yet, he returns everyday to see the children play. Why does he have to return, when he knows that he will have no one but the wall to be with? Thus, I think that the loner longs to be like the other children, with a "familiar clique" to be in. He always sticks to the wall and "never plays". This proves that the loner is anti-social.
However, it is not completely the Loner's fault. The children are cold and hard. They discriminate the loner as he is not like all of them. Not even one person had wanted to be the loner's friend. Probably because of the fear of becoming a loner themself. The children "pass by him and never speak." This shows that they are ignoring him although the loner has established his presence. They do not take the loner as a person who is waiting for a friend. Meerly a shy person who does not know how to speak up and socialise, but as a freak, a weirdo. Thus, it is evident that the children are 'cold' in the means of their behaviour.
If you look around, this shows the behaviour of the community in general. Many people might have stopped racially discriminating , but other forms of discrimination still exists. When people see a handicapped person or a person who is disfigured, they do not exactly react the same way as the would to general people. In school examples, too loud or too soft people are usually the ones with the least friends. The society has yet to accept people as they are open armed. No one can exist completely peacefully with no squabbles but, the problem is where people do not accept one another before they get to know each other. First impressions count, but you cannot judge a book by its cover. It is hard, and getting tougher to convey this message to the society. We live in a society which has its mind closed and judges people on the sterotype "perfect person". This itself is causing our society to fall. If such discrimination was to continue and was to follow on to racial discrimination, the racial riots will never end. But then again, around the world, when have the racial riots ever ended? Thus i think that this poem also represents our society, in form of the children.
( PS: The last paragraph was an extra and everything that i wrote is my personal thoughts and opinions. All characters and "examples" are means of the writer's(me!)' imagination and have no link to anyone ; dead or alive, or whatsoever.)
Batman and Joker
Monday, July 6, 2009 | 4:22 AM
1)
How do you sympathise with the Joker?
For one to commit such acts of brutality and violence, he either has to be a victim of such acts in the past or he must have been influenced from somewhere else. Thus, assuming that the Joker was a victim of child abuse, i sympathise with the Joker's bad experiences in the past. He must have had abusive parents or parents that did not care.
The first one would have affected him directly.
The second one would have indirectly affected him. If the joker's parents could not be bothered with his welfare, he could have started hanging out with the wrong group of people and got influenced to a life of violence and crime.
He might have started out as a teenager "acting out" and longing for attention and it might have gradually went on to addiction to gore and the longing to "get-rich-quick".
He also has a lingering feeling of unfufillment in his life as he is always being thwarted by Batman. Such feelings may make him strike back with more ferocity, only to fail again. He might feel useless and helpless. Which are a bad combination of feelings that can drive a person mad, which is evident in Joker from the scene in the movie we watched in class.
Thus, i conclude that Joker deserves my sympathy.
2) What have you learnt from this lesson?
By watching this movie, I have learnt to see heros in a different perspective, instead of judging them with the stereotype hero. We see many examples of this in both real life and in other shows.
As we look around us, we realise that many people around us are actually heros. A hero is not one who wears a flashy bright costume, flying around to save people wearing his underwear on top of his clothes. In the real life, the most unexpected people are the real heros. For example; Our mother, our teachers, the school councillor, the janitor for all you know! They all do works that affect our lives for the better. A mother is the one who kept us alive since little and the teacher teaches us so that we will have a better future. A janitor does jobs that we shun as too beneath us, when they are the ones that work hard to make sure that the place is hygienic and is a good place to live and learn. To conclude the first point, this lesson has widened my view.
Secondly, I have learnt to analyse the character in depth and i have also realised that it actually has made me learn that not all superheroes are perfect and that not all super villans are completely rotten to the core. That every person on earth has valuable qualities and that character analysis helps us appreciate every character fully and understand the reasons behind their actions. It also teaches us how to judge who is good and who is bad in real life, which gives us a advantage when choosing friends.
To sum it up, this lesson has helped us to learn many things that can help us in real life and the lesson was enriching and enlightening.
The literature blog
Thursday, July 2, 2009 | 6:57 PM
This is my lit. blog ((=
Homework one to be added in a while O.O
