2014년 3월 13일 목요일

Inclass activity2) Forced Empathy: Only For The Young[2]


Prompt : Sharing your opinion on the monk’s disciplinary method, relate your own life experience.

 Forced Empathy: Only For The Young

The monk makes the young boy to realize his cruel commitment by doing the same thing to him as he did to others. To let a child know his or her fault, the monk’s method is efficient. However, it can play no role to adolescents who have already set their own value of the goodness.

Before I went to elementary school, my parents had taught me about things that I must do and must not. In everyday life, I’ve got used to those rules and followed their advice. My friends were all like me and we couldn’t find any wrong point in parents’ sayings.

But then we entered middle school. I met various people from different places. Most were new to my friends and me. They were not a good boy or girl. They thought text book is just boring and their parents were binding them from freedom. Even more, they bullied others. Some of my original friends, who definitely believed their parents and textbooks, started to hang around with the new ones and became the same.

To be honest, I couldn't understand them over two years. They hated every adult, slept over every class and didn't follow what teachers said. What’s more, some of them spat at the floor to release the throat which was suffering from cigarette. At first, teachers tried to tame them and prepared several counselling courses with special activities, but they soon got bored and denied to participate in. Even the disciplinary action such as what the monk did had not moved their minds.

If some teachers nagged at me, I easily accepted and tried to look myself back. I don’t deny that I had those moments of wrath but it didn't last long. As being a nerdy kind girl, I thought every adult is always wiser than me. Usually it was true, so I had no problem so far.

Time flew, and I became a high school student. The school made me to think of the good and the evil. Before I started to think by myself, I believed that every adult around me is wiser than me hence always ethically right. That was the reason why I almost indoctrinated myself to obey parents' words.

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