DRAMA : GULP & GASP

SYNOPSIS...

This story started with the conversation between Lord Septic and Crouch.Lord Septic told Crouch that he want to own the railway statio.During the conversation,a flower-seller,Rose came and Lord Septic asked Crouch to tell her to get off.Crouch threw away the flower and left.Percy came and helped her.They shared their stories.Percy told Rose that he was an orphan and the only thing he had is a key with letter NSL on it.When Crouch back,they had a fight.Unfortunately,Percy was beaten by Lord Septic.He was unconcious.Rose was tied down on the railway track.While tying up Rose,Lord Septic reminisced the event of his father tying up Lady Gatsby  to the same track.Then, it turned out Lady Gatsby was Percy's mother and Percy was the owner of the railway track.All of sudden,Percy came managed to stop the train and save Rose.Lord Septic and Crouch were tied right after it.Rose told Percy the truth.Percy then proposed Rose and Lord Septic and Crouch were left to be arrested.

Themes in the drama

 

Plot of the drama

PLOT

1. EXPOSITION – Lord Septic, the villain, and his manservant Crouch, a groveling bully, are waiting for the midnight express at the train station. Lord Septic owns all the train stations and he wants wealth and power. He loves to brag about his wealth and success. Crouch is the manservant who sometimes fail to understand what the master tells him.
2. RISING ACTION / CONFLICT – Rose, a blind flower girl comes to the station. She wants to sell flowers to help cure her mother. Crouch bullies her, as ordered by Lord Septic,  and Percy, the dashing hero comes in to help her. He tells her about himself.
3. CLIMAX – Lord Septic hits Percy and ties Rose to the train track. Percy runs off to try and stop the train coming down the 
4. FALLING ACTION – Percy is able to stop the train using his long jack and Rose is saved. Later, he learns that  he is Sir Percy Gatsby and is the right heir to the Gatsby Gold.
5. RESOLUTION – Percy is able to tie Lord Septic and Crouch. They are  waiting to be picked up by the police. Percy, the hero, proposes Rose and she agrees to marry him.

Settings in the drama

CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISTIC...

ROSE

Characteristics: Poor and humble

Textual evidence:

She lives in poverty and sells flowers for a living. The hardship that she is going through made her lead a simple, humble and homely life. When she came to sell the flowers at the railway station, she has not eaten for 3 days and she is greatly hoping to earn some coins. Her house is in a very poor condition and the attic room has dry rot.

Characteristics: Blind and innocent

Textual evidence:

Rose is blind due to the flames at the match factory owned by Lord Septic. She has to lead a hard life as she lost her eye sight. Though she is blind, she is honest in earning money for living and her deed of working as a flower girl reflects her innocent attribute.

Characteristics: Hardworking and strong determination

Textual evidence:

She is hardworking and strong determined as she is willing to take all the trouble to walk all alone and sell the flowers at her own risk. She wants to save up for an operation on her eyes.

Characteristics: Caring and devoted

Textual evidence:

She cares for her sick mother, so she sells flowers in order to pay for her mother’s medication and treatments. She is a devoted child who looks after her ailing mother although she is blind.

Characteristics: Optimistic

Textual evidence:

She is also optimistic as she never gives up in her effort to earn money to treat her mother and for her eyes operation. She is a person who is always hopeful and expects the best in all things.

Characteristics: Smart and efficient

Textual evidence:

She discovers the identity of Lord Septic, accuses him of victimizing her and threatens to expose his crimes by showing a courageous spirit to fight for her rights. Besides that she is also quick in finding out about Percy’s background and gives moral support to him to regain his family fortune. She helps in unraveling the mystery of the key in order to tie up all the loose ends.

Characteristics: Romantic

Textual evidence:

Her romantic admiration towards Percy is revealed through her speech: “Oh, Percy! You’re my hero. My knight in shining armour. My good knight.” She also said, “It could be the key to my heart!”

PERCY

 

Characteristics: A helpful orphan

Textual evidence:

Percy’s mother was killed on the railway line and he became an orphan living in poverty and hardship. He was found in the litter bin at the railway station, wearing a purse containing a key bearing the initials, NSL. He went through a poor life without realizing that he is actually the rightful heir to Gatsby Gold. Although he is an orphan, he is a selfless and helpful. He helps Rose to pick up her flowers which is thrown by Crouch, and rescued Rose from being killed by Lord Septic when she is tied on the railway tracks by Crouch.

Characteristics: Generous

Textual evidence:

Although he is poor he is sympathetic towards Rose and he really wish he could give her some money when he first meet her at the railway station. When Percy came to know that he is rightfully the heir of Gatsby Gold, he willing to share his gold with Rose.

Characteristics: Intelligent and resourceful

Textual evidence:

Percy is quick in thinking as he managed to stop the train before it runs on Rose. He is smart enough to dab his bleeding nose with his pants until it become dark re. then he climbed up the gas lamp at the far end of the station and put his pants over the lamp.The train driver thought it was a stop light, so his pants brought the train to a halt.

Characteristics: Kind hearted and humble

Textual evidence:

Percy is willing to share his wealth with Rose although he is an aristocrat. He propose Rose as he is willing to marry her out of love . He willing said that half of his wealth is for her, so that she can pay for the operation to regain her eyesight and pay for her mother’s pills to make her well again.Besides that he wants to buy a home and marry Rose and be her life partner.

Characteristics: Brave and fights for justice

Textual evidence:

He grabs Crouch by his color when Crouch treated Rose badly. He rescues Rose from being killed by Lord Septic and he manages to chain him and his servant so that they cannot escape from their evil deeds. Finally the villains are left to their fate as the police are approaching the track.

LORD SEPTIC

 

Characteristics: Cruel and greedy

Textual evidence:

Lord Septic is a cruel owner of the match factory where Rose worked. . When she lost her eyesight due to the fire in the factory, he did not pay her for the damage. Besides that he treats Rose like a beggar and chases her form the railway station. Although he is rich, he want more and more wealth, he seeks more power and willing to kill for it. He wants to be the richest man and wants to find the Gatsby Gold.

Characteristics: Hot tempered and egoistic

Textual evidence:

He grabs Rose by the wrist and demands Crouch to tie her up. He takes control of the situation and he said that no one ever tells him what to do

Characteristics: violent

Textual evidence:

He creeps from the shadows and mercilessly hits Percy on his head with his stick.Then he slams Percy against the locker. He commands Crouch to tie Rose with the rope to the tracks as he hears the train coming.

Characteristics: Selfish

Textual evidence:

He did not keep the match factory safe because it would cause him money. As a result there was a fire out break which has caused harm and trouble to the poor workers who earn their living working in the factory. He even has no respect for his wife and calls her a nagger and he confesses that he married her wealth as she own a gun factory.

Characteristics: Evil in nature

Textual evidence:

He threw away the Gatsby Kid in the litter bin without any sense of humanity. He mistreats his workers and is very rude to Crouch, Percy and Rose. He is impatient and ill-mannered as he plans to sack the driver and everyone if the train does not arrive.

Characteristics: Rude

Textual evidence:

He is rude and uncouth in language and he looks as though he lacks breeding although he retends to be someone from upper crust. His rudeness is revealed from the way he talks and treats Rose, Crouch and Percy

CROUCH:

 

Characteristics: Subservient

Textual evidence:

Crouch is a servant who is so devoted and submissive towards his master. Lord Septic. He gives too much respect to his master. He is dim-witted as he simply agrees with whatever his boss say and instructs.

Characteristics: Bully

Textual evidence:

He bullies Rose and throws away her tray of rose across the platform. He has no sense of humanity although he knows that Rose is poor and blind.

Characteristics: Coward

Textual evidence:

He is actually feeble has he confesses that he is just following orders from Lord Septic and he doesn’t want to be blamed for the evil acts he did.

Characteristics: Grovel

Textual evidence:

He has no self dignity and grovels for a living. He grovel at Lord Septic by saying that he is such a great man and he has a big lordship. He even grovels at Percy by saying “By all means, sir. Anything you say, sir.”

Characteristics: Power crazy

Textual evidence:

He enjoys the time when he is given power to chase Rose from the railway tracks. Thus he is also power crazy like his master.

Literary Devices in the drama

Symbolism

• Fog
• Scene: ...It is a cold and foggy..
• Crouch: Because you'll own the biggest train set ever
• The train set is a symbol of an expensive toy

Irony

• Rose: Yes, sir. Do you buy a spring of heather for a penny? It may bring you luck.
• Rose herself is blessed with good luck when Percy managed to save her from the train.

Repitition

• ...The man who runs...the man who will soon....the man who's wrecked

Simile

• It's as thick as a pea soup
• like thunder like dragon
• coming to slay the damsel

Moral Values

about love maybe....

 

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Everybody knows love...

Everybody try to find their true love...

When we find our true love , we always get crazy to it..

 

Without you my days are "Sadday,"Moanday, "Tearsday, "Wasteday, "Thirstday, "Fightday", and "Shatterday"

 

That's why God doesn't tell us where we have to find it...

He asks us to find it by it OWN criteria...

 

For me,loving someone is not wrong...

but we as a muslim , we have to make sure that our love 

firstly to our GOD and PROPHET..

 

as the conclusion from me..

"I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE YOU"

 

 

 

 

 

MY IDEAL LIFE PARTNER

     We all have very high expectations about our future life partner.It is quite natural to have some idea about our future husband.It is not wrong to have dreams and fantasies about our future life partner.
     I also have my dreams and fantasies of what I want my husband be.In the first place,of course I want he has a strong faith, so then he can guide me.He also have good character and personality.I don't want a man like Aaron Aziz or Awal Ashaari because then he would sought after by other woman.
    I want him to loyal.He also have to responsible.If I choose him to be my life partner,he has to be responsible to my family too.He should have a financially secure job.But what important,I want him to focus to our family first.I would not like him to be over-ambitious and put his career above his family.
    Like everybody,I'm still searching for a perfect man.But everybody doesn't perfect.Like my mother said "SEARCH FOR SOMEONE THAT MAKE YOU SMILE BECAUSE ONLY SMILE CAN MAKE OUR LIFE IS FULL WITH HAPPINESS"

SOME WORD FROM ME:
"LOVE HAVE WINGS AND NEVER LET IT FLY AWAY FROM YOU,KEEP IT AND GIVE TO SOMEONE THAT YOU LOVE VERY MUCH =)"

ESSAY : ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF INTERNET

As we know, a long time ago it was really hard to communicate with each other. With the development of technology, telephone was made and it is used untill now. Those genius people made many useful stuff such as telephone, mobile-phone, airplane, computer and so on. However, those stuff  were really rare in the past, but now it is really common to everyone and almost everyone has it and use it. There is one useful thing that is used by everyone to communicate with each other quickly and simplely,it is called  INTERNET!!!. Internet is a browsing system that is use by using a computer or mobile-phons. In fact, by using internet, people can communicate with others even with a long distance. Moreover, it may also be used for gaming, web-browsing, chatting, downloading, sharing files and so on..

However, there are many advantages and disadvantages of internet for kids. Firstly, it's good for kids to know how to use a computer and internet. They can use it for searching good articles and syllabus for their schools. Furthermore, they can learn new things from the internet. Also they can do their homeworks on computer instead of wasting time writing down. However, there are also negative stuff for using the internet They may open some bad sites like porn, xxx, or something that even worse. They may be addicted to games on the computer or online-games. Those cases may bring bad effects to kids. Because they learn what they see and do.

  As conclusion,I think Internet is a good way to learn new things. But we must always watching them and telling them the good things.

ESSAY : SMOKING

Smoking has become very common and fashionable, especially among young boys. This habit usually begins at school when boys try to experiment with new thing .

Smokers are addicted to it.Some of them smoke for the sake of society and some feel that would make them cool and gentlemen..

In the beginning, a teenager may take a few cigarette from his friend,then comes a time when it becomes an  important part of his life.Soon smoking begins to affect the health of the smoker. He becomes a chain-smoker. This smoke is toxic and the nicotine in the cigarette is known to cause cancer. It is ironic that despite the fact that every smoker is aware of the ill effects of smoking, he does not give it up.

Tobacco companies are successful over the world. Every packet of cigarettes has a warning on it: "Cigarette smoking is injurious to health." But the smoker never reads this warning and even if he reads it he is still buy it.

The government raises the price of tobacco every year. This is usually done to discourage people from smoking. But smokers continue to be slaves of this habit.Smoking can be stopped by a strong will  once he sets his mind.

CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISTIC OF QWERTYUIOP

 

 The main character of this short story is Lucy Beck.  Perhaps this is how Lucy Beck looks like =)

1. young, small, plain looking 

- young and small and mouse-coloured, easily overlooked

 2. an underachiever but completes secretarial training at Belmont Secretarial College 

- has typing speed that would make a tortoise laugh

3. punctual 

- she was early 

4.  low self-esteem

-whoever will want to employ me

5. courage

-she went back and sat down in front of the typewriter and glared at it

6. determined

- Lucy wanted the job. More than anyone, more than anything, she wanted a job. 

She was tired of being poor

- for an hour, she battled with the machine

There are other characters too,,who do you think the second major character of the story? It must be the ghost of Miss Broome!!!!! Why?  Because she is the antagonist that creates a conflict in the story,,=)

So, what are the characteristics of the ghost of Miss Broome?

• bad -tempered
• very loyal and dedicated
• lonely
• possessive
• vengeful

Other than these two characters, the other characters found in the story are:

Harry Darke

• helpful

- he offers Lucy a helping hand whenever she needs it

• loyal 

- he has been working for Mr Ross and Bannister for 30 years!

Lucy's Mother,

• patient -  

she is very patient especially to Uncle Bert, she ever ever lose her temper to him, even scream

 Uncle Bert

• over sensitive

-  when Lucy gets mad on him, he tells Lucy of the feeling being unwanted, but he never cares of the trouble he creates to others that makes him deserves for such awakening

• alcoholic

- he drinks a lot perhaps to forget his problems

Mr. Ross

• concern

- he asks Lucy if she has trouble with the typewriter

• secretive

- he never tells Lucy of the typewriter secrete, or anything about the former secretary

Mrs. Price. 

• supportive

-she wishes Lucy to venture the real world and find success as she has confidence in her

• (but) cynical

- she wishes good luck upon Lucy's graduation, but mentioned in the text, the way she wishes good luck is like wishing a snowman a happy summer

SYNOPSIS OF QWERTYUIOP

This story is about a seventeen - year - old girl called Anna,who had just received a diploma from a secretarial college. With the diploma, she hoped to secure a job as a secretary. Her principal,Mrs Price however did not have much confidence in her because she was small, she looked timid and could only type at a slow speed.

Anna too was not very confident in her own self. She feared that she would not get a job. So, getting a job at the first interview she went was really a blessing. On her first day, she was surprised by a spirit of the former secretary, Miss Broome. The spirit communicated with her using the electronic typewriter. At first, she was horrified and frightened. Yet when she thought about the many luxurious things she could buy with her salary as a secretary, she became determine to fight the spirit.

She discovered from Harry Darke, an old man who worked at the firm that Miss Broome was a lonely woman who dedicated her life to her job as secretary. She was asked to leave by the late Mr Bannister after working for 43 years. She was reluctant as the office was like her home and she had no family. Even in her death, she was adamant to keep her job and frightened off many young girls who wanted to take her job.

Finally, Anna was able to persuade the spirit of Miss Bloome to leave the job to her. She told her that Mr Bannister had passed away and he desperately needed her to take care of him in the new world. Anna related to Miss Bloome that she was told to leave because Mr Bannister was worried about her health.