IMAGINE YOU ARE THE LONER BOY, WRITE A POEM, TO EXPRESS HOW YOU MIGHT FEEL AND WHAT YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, AS THE LONER BOY.

I am the loner boy,
leaning on the wall,
never singing a song.
I scuff my feet
and makes the tarmac squeak.
Oh i wish they would talk to me.

I wish i could play with the rest,
running and skipping children i saw.
but the children says they detest,
the loner whose place is at the wall.

I'm scared of people,
all i have is my wall
i'm sinking deeper
into a lonely well i fall.

one day, i moved away
to another school and place
now i am more lonely i'll say
but i wish my wall will stay

Although i have left my friend,
i hope he will never have another dent
will the children help me "watch this space"?
or maybe it'll be a wall they'll never get to face.

The children are very good friends and always stick together.

The children are very lively and energetic. They are always playing games and chasing each other. Though they argue sometimes, they are able to reconcile and get along again.

The boy lives in his own world and is very lonely.


He keeps to himself at the wall, wasting his time smacking his hands against the wall , tracing patterns and scuffling with his feet and doing other boredom-beating tricks. His concentration decreases slowly and soon, he just scuffs his feet in boredom. He must be doing these for a long, long time for him to be bored of his own boredom-beating tricks. He must have been also ignored by his family and is deprived of love and friendship.


He doesn’t fit in and the children doesn’t play with him. Therefore he stays at the wall all the time.

We pass him by and never speak,
His loneness is his shell and shield
And neither he nor we will yield.

Though the children run pass him, they ignore him as if he was part of the wall. The boy’s is like hiding in a shell and having a shield, stopping them from coming near him/ talking to him. The children ignores him and does not talk to him too. The boy and the children both will not play nor talk together. The children will never involve him in any of their activities

In slow huddled groups, low talking.
Each in our familiar clique

They will not talk to the loner and only gossip among themselves, forming a clique.


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He wants to join in, but he is shy and is very fearful of others.

Back against the wall he stays –
And never plays.

He is paraniod and fearful, leaning against his only friend, the wall for security and support. The wall, like him, is often ignored by passer-bys. Since the wall and him feels for each other, the wall is the boy’s best friend, and vice-versa. might also be watching the children play and is feeling envious of them playing since he comes to the wall often. He wants to play too.

Since he is shy and fearful of others, he has some kind of “shield” that blocks others from understanding and befriending him.

He has found a new meaning in life and has moved away.

He wasn’t there at the wall today,
Someone said he’d moved away
To another school and place

He has moved away and given up trying to fit into the group of children. He might have left to find a new meaning in life besides hanging out without anything to do at the wall. Leaving the place, he might even find new friends, if he allows people to “break his shield and shell”. He is independent now.

And on the wall where he used to lean
Someone had chalked
‘watch this space’.

The boy might have chalked “watch this space” as he still missed this only friend, the wall , who gave him support and security. He wants others to help him to “watch this space” , taking care of his friend for him while he is away.

Maybe he wants to reserve the space at the wall, hinting that he may want to come back to "visit" the wall one day.

The boy is lonely , mainly because of his shyness and fear of others. The children ignore him and he ends up doing things that have no meaning near a wall, who is his only friend who can actually give him support. He desires to play with the children, yet he is scared. The children does not understand him and act as if he is part of the wall. Now, he is independent and has moved away. However, he hasn't forgetten about his friend, the wall.

I learned in this literature lesson that villains may not be totally bad, while heroes may not be totally good.

A villain that is totally bad will not evoke pity in the readers/viewers when he dies or is defeated.

However, a hero that is totally good is unbelievable too.

Therefore, we need to aim for characters that are not perfect to make our stories believable because no one is perfect.

No. I do not sympathise with the Joker.

FIrst, he had committed too many crimes, and is extremely vicious and evil. He is also cunning and smart.

In “The Dark Knight” we see him robbing a bank. The Joker tricks his “partners” into killing one another, and then he kills the last one himself.

All his partners were killed in the end and he gets all the money too.

( IN THE BANK..)

Happy: Boss told me, when the guy was done, I should take him out. One less share, right?
Grumpy: Funny, he told me something similar. [Grumpy shoots him]

Grumpy: I'm betting The Joker told you to kill me soon as we loaded the cash.

Bozo: No. No, no, no. I kill the bus driver.

Grumpy: [confused] Bus driver? What bus dri-? [a school bus drives through the wall and kills Grumpy]

This shows that he is merciless, especially to his partners, making use of them to get what he wants.

Second, he does not care about the innocent. In fact, he kills the innocent without feeling anything.

In “The Dark Knight”, The Joker announced that people will die each day until Batman reveals his identity.

The Joker: [holds camera facing himself] See, this is how crazy Batman's made Gotham! If you want order in Gotham, Batman must take off his mask and turn himself in. Oh, and every day he doesn't, people will die, starting tonight. I'm a man of my word. [laughs]

And the Joker derives pleasure from killing innocent people and inflicting fear in them.

The Joker's victims have included men, women, children – people of all ages. This shows that he doesn’t care about other people.

He is surely an anti-social, inhuman person.

Third, the Joker takes this as all a game. And he actually enjoys it.

In the film The Dark Knight the Joker remarks that he won't kill Batman, because he is just too much fun.

JOKER : You are truly incorruptible, aren't you? Huh? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.

( in another scene..)

Batman : Then why do you want to kill me?
The Joker : [laughs] I don't want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You... you... complete me.

He also finds it fun to kill people using knifes, and not guns.

JOKER : [to Det. Stephens] Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the... little emotions. In... you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are.

The Joker is a serial killer and robber. He is the ultimate villain, who finds joy in going against the law and beating Batman.

However of course, he is not totally bad, or it would be unbelievable and unreal. In fact he doesn’t care about the money at all. He just finds pleasure in doing so.

The Joker: [dialing on a cell phone while a mountain of money burns behind him] Everything burns!

The Joker: Let's put a smile on that face!

In conclusion, The Joker is extremely vicious and evil, killing men, women, children and even his henchman. He kills innocent people without mercy, and enjoys every second of it. He also takes it as a game played with Batman, and finds it fun too.

Therefore, I do not sympathise with the Joker. :D

Source : Wikipedia and Batman Wikia ( http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Joker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_joker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dark_knight )

Memorable quotes for
The Dark Knight : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/quotes