Opinion essay

My ideal family would be a kind of a traditional family. For example my own family. My parents, my brother and me live together in our house, but the relationship between us is very difficult. I would like to have a family where the others just care as little as they need to and you enough space to live your own life.

Most people think of the traditional family. Then they hear the word “family”. They think of it because the traditional family is the best thing for a growing child to become an important member for the society. While the father is working to bring the on the table, the mother is working half days to bring enough money for the children so they can purchase anything they like. In my opinion this is a good type of family, because if the kids get everything they want they will have to work hard if they want to keep their lifestyle. But this can only work if the parents give their children much space and don’t watch them like they don’t know how to work with money.

In my opinion the best relationship within a family is when everybody loves each other equally but this doesn’t work. So the best option could be that one parent is giving his attention to one child and the other parent to the other child. I think this system is working for some families but not for all so there is another option. Each parent is giving each child the same treat. The parents should be interested in what the kids do but they should not ask and know everything that happens in the kids’ life.

In my opinion the importance of a working family in a society is undeniable. If families are not working it is very bad for society. Like a child whom is growing up in a family which is not working they have a slight tendency of slipping in the crime scene. So if the families are not working the majority of the youth is going to be a criminal and if that happens the society will collapse.

To sum up my ideal family would be a traditional family with not to much caring parents, a good relationship between the familymembers so they help each other out and the family have to work otherwise it’s going to ruin the society.

© Markus Lampert

Shut Up

Group work about “Shut Up“

Chorus:
Although they tried they weren’t able to control their relationship.

Stanza [2]
At first everything went alright. They go out together. From the man’s point of view everything is fine, but the woman thinks she gets too few of his attention.

Stanza [3]
It’s too tough for them to keep up their relationship, because it’s bored on bust. He doesn’t listen to her. They are arguing every day.

Stanza [4]
The man wants to start their relation anew. But the woman thinks that he is not good enough for her.

a co-work of Sam and Markus

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101 Cementarydrive
10292 New York
Dec. 24 2008

Hey narrator,
How are you doing? I’m glad that you wrote me about the accident with the security guard, but you should have told the cops about it. I know that you never wanted to kill him and that you were only afraid that he was about to kill Scratch, but you really should have told the cops and stood up for your actions. If you had told them it was an accident that it looked like the security guard was going to kill Scratch and you only wanted to help him and that you hit the guard with your skateboard and he accidentally fell on the rail, then was cut into pieces. I know that you were probably shocked and confused, but running away from a crime scene and throwing evidence into the river is the worst you could have done. I think you should have told someone besides me, because I can only make suggestions but I cannot help you through this rough time. Anyway, I think it was the right decision that you broke up with Jennifer, since needed you only for the sex because she was the only virgin and you needed her because she had cool friends. I think that this detective could have helped you. If you want to make a confession I would talk to him, but first of all you need a lawyer who knows how this system works, so you need to tell your parents about it. What’s all about Macy? Are you into her? Are you interested in her? Because I think she is interested in you and she would probably help you to get through this time. Anyway I hope you’ll write back to me as soon as you can and I hope you think about what I wrote you.

Yours,
Markus

SA

116 Mockingbirdlane
324523 Catersclown
Nov. 28 2008

Hi Kelly,
How are you? I’m not well. There has been a huge fight in my family. Nobody can get along with each other. You know my brother, right? He was on a party a few days ago and he took some drugs and slept with two girls. I know about that, because he told me, but he didn’t want me to tell our parents. But I thought it would be the best for him. When I first told my father, he was very angry and yelled at Jack. My mother wanted to calm him down, but it didn’t work and suddenly all of them were quarrelling, When Jack got the information that he has got an STD, he was afraid that the girls might have it too. He called them and both girls stopped talking to him, because one girl hadn’t even slept with him and the other one was embarrassed. The conflict between Jack and my father is worse then ever. I think that’s why their relationship is not well. I could suggest that we should see a family therapist so that something horrible like this can never happen again.

Yours, Zoe

Virgins character map

I want present to you the result of our group work. The person I want to talk about is Jack. First of all I want to talk about the looking of the character, then I will move on to his acting and finally I will explain you the relationship to the other characters. In the story you don’t get any idea of the appearance of Jack. That’s why my group had to imagine him. I think he looks like a skater. That means, he wears baggy pants, a medium-sized t-shirt with a brand name on it and he wears Globe skater shoes. I also think that he has medium length brown hair and he is a very sporty person. We chose this, because we think nearly every teenager looks like a skater nowadays.
Now I will continue with his behaviour.
In our opinion he acts like a pubertal teenager that means he doesn’t want to listen to his parents and wants to go to as many parties as possible. He is ashamed of the STD, because he had sex for the first time with the one girl he loves and she might got a STD too. We think he is very sarcastic because his father tells him all his faults and he answers like “Oh Really!”, but that’s not the worst he yells a lot and has problems with his anger. To the end of the story he accepts what he has done and blames Ben for all his faults.
My last point is the relationship to the other characters in the play. The first relationship I want to talk about is Jack’s and Nick’s. Well this relationship is very complicated, because Nick and Jack don’t really understand each other. Jack thinks that his dad should understand him, because he was a teenager once, too.
The next relationship is about Jack and Suzy. I think this relationship is very solid because Suzy always protects him and helps him if he has a fight with his dad and I think he really appreciates it, because he is not able to stand up against his father alone. The relationship between Jack and Zoe is very strong, because they tell each other secrets and talk about serious topics like sex.

© Markus Lampert

Main Character

Melinda suffers of living alone, because she is the most unpopular pupil at the high-school. She doesn’t fit in any group or clan. She needs a lot of time to trust Rachel and tell her about what happened at the party, she might does it to save Rachel from Andy. Even though Rachel doesn’t believe her she has now more self esteem. She is very good at defending herself that’s why she holds a sharp shard at Andy’s neck.

Melinda has only two friends who are David and Heather. She likes David because he is very brilliant and because he is a kind of “rebel”. David also likes her which could be seen when he helped Melinda with her Presentation.
Heather likes her because Melinda was the only person who was nice to her and talked to her. But after a few weeks she tells her to go away because she thinks that they are too different.

Her mom and her dad aren’t too caring. They just don’t talk enough with their child. My impression is that she feels disregarded. She’s only a few people left who she could call friends. There’s Heather, who cancels the friendship, and there’s her lab partner, who was named David Pertaki and last but not least her art teacher Mister Freeman. Mister Freeman is a very sensitive man, she feels kind of secure when she’s close to him. Her connection to the other teachers isn’t that good. In fact she hates her history teacher. He’s making a problem out of everything. Her English teacher, who’s called hair-woman by Melinda, is weird.

Also the teachers do not notice Melinda. They are not friendly especially Mr. Neck is very hostile to her. Except Mr. Freeman likes and speaks with her because he notices very soon what is up with her. That is reason why Melinda’s best mark is in art and in all other subjects she gets very bad marks.

© Markus Lampert

Speak

1.Book review

Laurie Halse Anderson won one of four award-winning novels with “Speak”, which was published by penguin group in 1999. She lives together with her famliy in New York. Speak is a book about a 14 years old girl called Melinda who was raped at a summer ending party and the author wrote about this because Melinda came to her in a nightmare.

Melinda become an outcast at her high-school and she’s very lonely because she called the police at this party since she was raped. Everybody exept for Melinda was in a group of friends or a clan. They are only mad at her because they don’t know what happened. Nobody talks to her until she meets Heather, who is new at school. Mr. Freeman is her art teacher who believes in Melinda.

She really needs help but doesn’t get it becauseshe doesn’t speak about her problems. She falls in a lot of trouble when she starts to skip school. Rachel is a ex-friend of her, doesn’t believe her because her boyfriend was the one who raped her. But finally she asks her boyfriend and he doesn’t give an answer so she ends their relationship at thr prom. Andy, the ex-boyfriend, force Melinda into a closet where he wants torape her again.

I didn’t really like the because I am not interested in such lame books, but the whole class wanted to read. Whatever here is my book review.

© Markus Lampert