Semi-Final Exam "dili tanto lisod =)

Sadness in a crowd of happy people

1.      I have a friend who is happy and gay. She is blooming and always laughs. She’s fun to be with, and seems no inner problem encountered. She always talks positively in life and you can get lessons from her. She is an optimistic type of person that you love to be with. Every day, I met her as pleasing as if no problems at all. Pressure can’t puzzle her and drive her into the limbo world, but sometimes she gets mad when our classmates teases her or annoys her.

In one circumstance in our lives as students, during the discussion in one of our subjects, she shared her past experiences and her present situation in the class. As she utters the words by and by, I feel the ill feeling of her, she had teary eyes and as she continued her “speech”, she then smiled and thanked her friends who made her happy every day.

As I heard her inner self complaining, suffering from interior distress, my heart was melted and I directly asked myself “Do I deserve to be one of her friends? That even a single hint, I was not able to notice.” As days goes by, we had a conversation, a little chit chat that I intentionally lead it to her inner turmoil. I gave her advices and little sharing of my past experiences that may help alleviate her anguishes and burden weighs lighter and lighter. Now, I understand her more. As a result, I always crack jokes and make her laugh, in that nous; I help her carrying her baggage daintier and lighter.

In some ways, I help her spending trifling expenses and her lunch if I have extra money. I always remind her not to commit suicide just because of problems, thus, we should collate them and convert them into strengths because God has plans for her.

2.      Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy are melancholic, they both wanted to have something in life that they perceive to be impossible. They pokerfaced themselves to any means just to hide their wants or the mayhem they’ve encountered. One thing I like to both of them is they don’t use people just to cover themselves from something, they use things like Richard Cory, he uses expensive clothes and Miniver Cheevy, he uses alcohol. They both have frustrations in life that the only thing to do is to focus on one thing and give it out.

Richard Cory is different from Miniver Cheevy in some aspects. Richard is a type of person that hides himself to his glitches through clothes, smiley face, calm and friendly wellbeing. He committed a finishes his life through a gun.

Miniver Cheevy in the other hand is a brand of person that hides his insecurities and discouragements because of his misfit dreams through drinking alcohol and such. He assumes and thinks that what happens to him is his fate and he can never change it.

3.     a) Who is Miniver Cheevy?

b) What happened to Miniver Cheevy? Why?

c) How does Miniver Cheevy deals his frustrations and discouragements?

d) if you were Miniver Cheevy, will you do the same? How will deal with it?