McCoy's Life Journey曉風

Ryan Hsieh B09615105

Ms. Rosa Chen

Selected Readings of English Prose

October 8, 2010



The Helpless Moment

Everyone may go through something happy or sad in their life. Someone may be influenced and become a nice or vicious after the event. For example, a girl’s parents divorced while she was so young, then she may become a person who can’t believe love and marriage after she grows up. I decide to write the event which influences me in my life now.

When I was an elementary school student, I was short, thin and diffident. I was so shy that I can’t easily to communicate to my classmates. Also I was self-abased that I can’t show my picture to my classmates. I always refused to show the picture when my classmates requested me. So I had no friends and my classmates hated me and bullied me. To me, my classmates were Devil. Because they did many vicious things like these, daubed some pictures in my uniform, stole my teaching aids, put the emulgent into my beverage, put insects in my bags, changed my answer on the blackboard to make me get severe punishment from my foolish teacher and so many thing devil could do.

At that moment, I also hated my teachers. My teacher didn’t like me because I always got very bad score in many courses like math. I think my teachers were unfair, impatient, and foolish because they didn’t have some patience to treat a student who had to need more time to learn well. They always treat someone who always got well in the exam better than me. Of course, I hate to go to school even I would like to transfer to another school. But, unfortunately, I couldn’t transfer to another school. At the moment, I also hated myself because nothing I could do even if I was so angry. I couldn’t fight back because I was so thin and short. I couldn’t win them in many courses because I am stupid and got the worst score in the class. So I can’t choice but cry at home.

The influence of the events makes me become a person who not only hates the powerful person, unfair rule but also sympathetic to the minority. For instance, I am not only sympathetic to the protagonist but feel very angry to the antagonist when I watched the protagonist was bullied by the antagonist in the soap opera. I often may make a comment to the screenwriter to express my anger and thoughts after I watched the soap opera. In my opinion, I don’t think it is reasonable that bully may bully a person who was lower than them. Also I don’t think it is reasonable that the person who was lower than bully should bear silently and is bullied by them. It’s totally wrong. I think they should oppose to bully. And bully deserved to be punished in the future.

Even if now, I still can’t forgive my classmates who always bullied me in the past. So I haven’t attended the class reunion yet. For myself, my elementary school life was the sorrowful, angry, and helpless moment. Nowadays, I often think a question could I become easily sympathetic to the minority and angry to bully when I read the story or watch the drama if my classmates hadn’t bullied me at that time?