ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT!

Journal According to Jack Noonan on Lamb to The Slaughter...

I was resting in the police station, after a hard day at work. Then, out of the blue, a call popped out, saying that Patrick Maloney was dead. That made my heart skip a beat. Without an hesitation, I volunteered to be present to investigate. On the way, my heart pounded wildly as I told myself that he was not dead. Who would ever kill Patrick? He could not have done anything so bad that he was to be killed, as he was a cop! He was one of my closest friend, his wife was amicable too.

Just as I reached the scene, my worst fears were confirmed. Patrick was dead. I wiped a trickle of teardrop off my eyelids as I told myself that as a fellow cop, I will find the murderer. But before I knew it, Mary Maloney ran straight at me, flying into my arms. She was weeping. However, I had a feeling when she ran to hug me. That feeling told me that this was all a deception whenever I looked at her. Her weeping face seemed to be fake but from her expression, everyone could tell that she was crying. I shook my head, got rid of that thought and went through the usual process, comforting her and calming her down.

After her matter was settled, I started with the serious things. I thoroughly scanned the area, searching for any clues but to no avail. But when I checked Patrick's body, I found a small tink of blood on the back of his head and quickly gathered all the cops. We then fairly concluded that he was dealt with a hard strike ont he back of his head with a heavy blunt weapon. We then proceeded by "interrogating" Mary. She portrayed a pitiful expression but at the same time, I cant help feeling the same feeling which gushed back into my mind, the feeling that this was all a deception.

We followed her statements accordingly, especially the part when she said that she visited the grocer. One of my subordinates went to find the grocer and he confirmed that Mary visited him to buy food for Patrick around the estimated time of death. We were intrigued and as there was nothing we could get from Mary's statement, we then continued our search for clues. Half of our group left and four cops, including me, continued our tedious search. It was obviously getting late and our stomach;s were obviously growling. Mary offered us lamb and we could not reject the treat. We then gorged ourselves on the food, but whenever I put a pice of lamb into my mouth, I get this weird feeling, one which I cannot express, then I heard Mary giggling. What a mystery...

My feelings (I am a very sensitive guy)

Well, personally, I feel that the Multiple Intelligence Test was quite useful as it tells us what catagory we would fit in. Then, when we work on that specific catagory, we will improve by leaps and bounds. Another point to note, I do not understand why people have many areas which they are potentially good at. I am thus wondering how are they going to choose from these areas, at least I am lucky to have only one area of expertise.

For me, I am Intrapersonal, which means myself smart. To you, the definition of this word may sound incompatible to me, as I tend to rely and ask people before I start being independent. But, I think that this attributes to me being Intrapersonal, I can work it out myself without much help. My score for Music Smart is also not bad, as I come from a musical background, having learnt the piano. In a nutshell, I hope that everyone will continue with their area of expertise and strive for the best.

Cheers,
Jack

Difference between LTTS and The Way Up to Heaven

Just want to let you know that I worked until quite late just to think of this, so please enjoy!!!
*I am sure you can tell I am joking.

Well, lets start! The main difference between Lamb to the Slaughter and The Way up to Heaven is the way of murder presented in the story. In LTTS, the character, Mary Maloney directly kills Patrick, another character while in The Way up to Heaven, Mrs Foster indirectly kills Mr Foster, by leaving him in a trapped lift as she goes on a holiday. There is also another difference, in LTTS Mary kills Patrick because of a negative news which is told to her, while in The Way up to Heaven, Mrs Foster lets Mr Foster dies because the fact that she found out Mr Foster is deceiving her.

Now, for the similarity. The men in both stories have a certain dominance over the women in the story, but towards the end of the story, the women then overthrow the men and kill them instead. At the beggining of the story, both women are submissive and shy, not wanting to speak up in front of their husbands but after a high degree of impact is dealt on them, they killed their husbands, indirectly or directly.




NOW... FOR THE VERDICT.... I PREFER THE WAY UP TO HEAVEN MORE THAN LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER...
I just love the way the murder and deception is presented in The Way Up to Heaven.

PS: This is done after the reminder by Qiyuan so THANKS Qiyuan!!!

5th February 2010. What exactly happened...

I will remember that day for the rest of my life. Well, on that very day, I got back my Mathematics results and guess what... I got quite bad for it. I was pondering over this incident for quite some time. I really did work hard for it. I really studied and spent at least 2 hrs revising my work. Why this result?! I am really sad and I want to know the answer. In my heart, I really can promise to everyone I did study for this exam. I want to know why I did not do well. What is the answer for this?!

Please give your comments and advice...




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The story of Mary Maloney, Frankie and Chuan Poon.

Once upon a time... I am not going to start with that heading for now as we are speaking about realisitic stories. Well, lets start by defining deception. Deception is to mislead someone by faking an appearance or statement. We had already discuss about the deception of Mary Moloney in class.


Mary Maloney was described as someone who was very neat and seeked attention from her husband. However ,the husband told her a bad news, which I conclude that it was the fact that he was leaving her for another woman. She was so badly hit by it and the impact made her change. The change was no simple one. She changed drastically in character and thinking. She ended up killing her husband and getting away with it by destroying all the evidence there is.

Lets talk about the deception in Male Child. Chuan Poon was described as someone who was caring and kind person. However , after having six daughters, he feels that he is somewhat cursed with a curse to never have a son. He thought it was because he did wrong when he was a younger. He does not blame his wife but sometime does that when he is irritated and feels embarrassed having so many daughters. His wife is pregnant once again and at first he hopes to have a son. Unfortunately, he met a prostitute which he wants to marry. But his mind is in debate as to whether he should leave his current wife or leave the prostitute. He hates it when other men visits the other woman. He then hopes his wife gives birth to a daughter once again because the wife then allows him to find another wife. The reader is deceived to believe that Chuan Poon was a good man.


Lastly, lets talk about Frankie. The first decepion, Frankie describes Pearl, his girlfriend, as someone who is perfect. She is also described someone who is unwilling to serve her future husband. She expects herself to live in bliss all the time and is only to marry men who she finds suitable for her. In the end, she leaves Frankie because she thinks that his parents will affect his happiness. She is also worried that Frankie might be ''disabled'' when he grows older and is not willing to take care of him. However at the end, she throws away her materialism and is willing to marry Hong who has many troubles.


JUST A VERY SHORT ADDITION TO ANALYSIS!!!

For Mary Maloney, the way she used to let us see her deception is when she killed her husband. She brought out the killer intent in her and the aggresiveness she had, although we can all argue that she done it in the spur of moment. However, we can elude the fact that it was on the spur of the moment after reading the part on how she planned her plot so well in order to get away scot free. In the process, she showed no remorse. This can truly prove the difference between the shy and submissive personality she shown at the beginning of the story and the character she had at the end of the story.
(PS: Mary was never justified for what she did. She got away from the police)


Just a general analysis for all the stories. I feel that the deception in the story about Frankie and the Lamb to the Slaughter is about the same. They both talk about the stark contrast in personality after a party suffer an impact by another party. To add on, the impact they suffer is usually quite heavy, which then makes a dent in their personality.

Pictures of me!

Well, I know that my display picture is a little small and it is a little difficult to see my face so I have decided to post pictures of me! But before that, I have to do a little reflection about english lessons this week. This week seems to be like a reading week. We were asked to read Little Ironies and short Roald Dahl stories. Perhaps to you reading this stories seems boring. To me, once I pick one of those books, I will completely be in my own world. Those stories totally enraptures me! People reading my blog should try to read those stories!

Actually, reading books play a part in our life. They affect our actions and thoughts, even our imagination! They enrich us! However, one very important note is that once you do not feel like reading books, don't! Do not feel like you are being forced to read books because the knowledge you gain will not be entering your memory to leave a mark there. You will just be wasting your time so I got 1 very important tip to help you read books with interest. Imagine yourself as the person in the book! That will honestly help!

A significant friendship formed within 2 weeks

So... You could have just stumbled onto my blog by just clicking the ''next blog'' on the webpage, but I would just give you a very brief introduction about me. I guess you all have heard about boys changing in the classroom, well, thats quite true.

Before PE lessons, seeing everyone rushing to the toilet to change is quite normal, well its the ''norm''. But after just 1.6km or maybe approximately 10 mins in the immense heat of the sun, it seemed that the everyone, including me, was ''brainwashed'' by the Sun. Reaching class, everyone stared at each other and there was just a moment of silence. Following that, ''Someone'' ( I am sparing the guy who shouted that) exclaimed, ''Everyone change!''

I guess you all would have guessed what followed it ; everyone just took off their pants and changed! Fortunately, no female teachers were present at the scene. I am not implementing that this is any place where people change but seriously, this actually signifies our friendship just within 2 weeks so this is just a small little note to everyone, '' treasure those around you''. I guess you have roughly understood my character. Thanks to all who have read this post and another awaits you soon!

Comments? Anyone?