What are your impressions of the boy as well as of the children in the poem?

Boy:
Well, I think that the boy is anti-social and shy. He obviously doesn’t have any friends and likes being alone. He somehow never tried to make friends; “back against the wall he stays-and never plays” and like the line in the poem states, he never mixed around with the other children. The wall is his ‘friend’ and he is always there, against it. He may be feeling insecure and needed ‘support’ from the wall. But he is always feeling bored; “smacks his hands against the bricks and other boredom-beating-tricks”, this explains that he is always bored and had nothing better to do. It also means that he is too bored to even bother about the pain as he continues hitting his hands against the bricks. The line “his loneness is his shell and shield” shows me that he hides beneath his ‘shield’ from the other children. It may also be that he has phobia of conversing with people. I feel that the writings on the wall are by the boy himself. It may be to tell that he would return one day. He may come back as a different person with a whole different personality.

Children:
The children seem to be enjoying themselves, playing, shouting in the playground. They are in their own cliques unlike the loner who is standing against the wall all by himself. The quote “strife doesn’t last long” tells me that the arguments and fights among the children doesn’t last long and that they were able to reconcile their differences. The children seem to ignore the loner and somehow don’t want to confront him. “Pass by him and never speak” this implies that the children do talk and gossip about the boy. They might be trying to avoid being friends with the boy as they fear that they too would be classified as ‘loners’. I believe that if they had tried being friends with him, there would not be any loners and the boy would have a chance to have a happy childhood.

born on 20/12/96 with the name Hidayah, graduated from seng kang pri and currently a Crescentian..154 cm tall and weighs bout 35kg++..loves her family,friends and life..




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