- Create a thesis that compares the two pieces and talks about a universal lesson; you can use this template if you’d like: Both these texts demonstrate that an argument, a big idea is true about [topic]; they suggest that we should __________ [what authors want to change or help us learn].
- Next, find one passage from each story to support your ideas.
- Introduce the quotes by discussing the literal level of the quote--
- summarize the situation of the quote to help us see your reading comprehension.
- Include the person who said it and what the subject of the quote is.
- After explaining each quote, try to analyze the quote--think about how the author writes it. You can talk about the figurative language, the word choice, the tone of the language, or even the rhetorical elements like pathos, ethos, or logos. Try to make a connection between the way the quote is written and the message the quote has.
- Close with an idea about how this topic plays out in the real world; can you think of a real-world example?
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Comparing "Games at Twilight" to "The Scream"
Please brainstorm one topic that these stories have in common. Think, for example, about what both authors teach/argue, show about Children? Siblings? Parents? Games? Loyalty?
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ReplyDeleteAnita Desai’s “Games of twilight” and H. Bricoe’s “The Scream” tells as an interesting story but with a dark tone weaved in like a tapestry throughout the story they mothers pushed their children into future emotional trauma because of their disregard for not only there feelings but their opinion in things that they should be apart of like in “games of twilight” the mother “Their mother rose from her basket chair and came towards him, worried, annoyed, saying, 'Stop it, stop it, Ravi. Don't be a baby.” (7) this shows that the mother had not only forgotten her son but completely disregarded his feelings. And the same thing happened in “The scream” Mary the youngest daughter wanted to go onto the rollercoaster “the scream” but her mother wouldn’t allow her to go alone and forced Anna the older sister to go even though she knew her daughter got ill from going on rollercoasters or just being up high in the first place "You can go on with Anna," Mum suggested, and they both looked at her, silently hoping she would agree. Anna avoided their eyes, and became extremely interested in the way she had tied the laces of her trainers that morning. "I'd feel much happier knowing Anna was there to look after you Mary. Just in case you get lost, or hurt or something." (3) in this the mother and mary dont even allow Anna to speak for herself and put in her opinion until they’ve basically already made up their mind. And Anna’s mother pushed her feelings away say that its childish to still be ill even though its still very much there "Don't be silly Mary," her mother began in Anna's defence. "Of course she's scared. Any person in their right mind would be. But it's only a ride, Anna. Surely you can make it onto a ride without feeling ill for once, you're always afraid of things like that, it's getting ridiculous ..." (4) whats getting reidiculous is how you treat you child even though you know she gets ill. These Authors teach us that Mothers have a sense of responsibility to protect their children when they know something is wrong or they get ill when thinking of something.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” demonstrates that siblings have a tendency to cause conflict; however, no matter the age conflict will always arise. In “Games at Twilight,” Desai uses hide and seek as the cause of the conflict, while Ravi is hiding during the game, he later realized that the game has ended without him. The conflict is how Ravi was forgotten “'Den! Den! Den!' his voice broke with rage and pity at the disgrace of it all and he felt himself flooded with tears and misery”(7). This description shows that the other kids forgot about Ravi, which caused the conflict. Moreover, Ravi didn’t join the other kids playing the game. Like so, in “The Scream,” Briscoe’s way of conflict is between the two sisters, “Mary stared slyly at her sister, narrowing her eyes and turning the corners of her mouth into a half-smile. "You're not scared are you Anna? You're scared of everything” (5). This description shows how Mary already knows Anna’s fear, but Mary wants to take advantage of the fear. These two authors teach readers that no matter the age, but siblings will always have a rivalry.
ReplyDeleteBoth stories ¨Games at Twilght¨and ¨ The Scream¨ that demonstrates
ReplyDeletethe fact that they need to grow up and do things on their own.
Mum's face. "Sure, it's not that bad. I think I'll still give it a miss though." Seeing she wasn't going to get Mum to try the ride, Mary scowled, and folded her arms.
this passage shows that they need to grow up and try new things as they say that she will go but the fact that they are trying to make her do something out of her comfort zone and try something new is apart of growing up.
They had begun to play again, sing and chant. All this time no one had remembered Ravi. Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. Clean.
'Don't be a fool,' Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, 'Stop howling, Ravi. If you want to play, you can stand at the end of the line,' and she put him there very firmly.
this paragraph show how growing up you need to learn your not the most important person there and things like that you will be forgotten every once and a while the fact that he learns this early is the fact that he is young and thinks everything is about him.
the idea is that growing up is hard having siblings growing up is even harder, the fact that they try to find things in there lifes to do having siblings the parents can't focus on just you the have to focus on how ever many children they have at the same time you can tell the fact that people who have siblings have to mature faster and to do that they have to step out of their comfort zone and try new things to get done what you had to get done. learning how to live life to the fullest is the easy one learning how to live is what is hard because you learn from your older siblings or your younger ones from you to learn how to do things.
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ReplyDeleteAnita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” demonstrate that mothers never seem to fully understand what is going on in the children's life; however the way the author writes in the stories both start with the mother letting her children go resulting in the kids having a conflict. In “Games at Twilight” Desai’s writing shows the children getting into conflict because the mother fled the scene. "But Ravi would not let them. He tore himself out of his mother's grasp and pounded across the lawn into their midst, charging at them with his head lowered so that they scattered in surprise. 'I won, I won, I won,' he bawled, shaking his head so that the big tears flew. 'Raghu didn't find me. I won, I won—" Without the mother watching all of them tears had flown from Ravi and resulted in Ravi not feeling accomplished. In "The Scream" Briscoe’s writing showed that the mother let the kids go an had the consequence of one of her kids fainting. "Her legs gave way from under her, and she couldn't stop herself falling. Down again. Would she ever stop falling? The world went black as her eyelids folded closed.
ReplyDelete"You don't half look frightened in the picture, Anna," commented Mum. "Anna?" She stared down at the floor. "Anna?" Clearly, Anna had fainted at the end from her fear, but it was much more than a fear for Anna and I don't think her sister realized that. In both of these stories the mother is present in the beginning but soon fades out until the end of the story. The kids both suffer consequences of not feeling accomplished or even fainting.
Both Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream,” demonstrate how coping with internalized fear can be frustrating, especially to children and teens. In “Games at Twilight,” Desai uses a metaphorical “death” to illustrate Ravi’s internal dread after he loses the game and is forgotten by his family. When the author allows Ravi to feel “the ignominy of being forgotten - how could he face it? He felt his heart go heavy and ache inside him unbearably. He lay down full length on the damp grass, crushing his face into it, no longer crying, silenced by a terrible sense of his insignificance,”(8) the reader gets a sense that the intensity of the game, or perhaps the fear of being forgotten, is crashing down on the young boy. This frustration is also triggered by Ravi’s mother responding to his reaction, which is obviously very traumatizing, with “Stop it ... Don’t be a baby.”(8) Similarly, in “The Scream,” Anna displays an immense terror when trapped on the rollercoaster, yet her mom doesn’t understand her daughter’s struggle. Briscoe describes Anna’s anxiety physically as “embedded deep inside her like an icicle in her heart. She was suffocating, incapable of taking in oxygen with the scream wedged in her throat.”(11) Like the morbid language in Desai’s text, this quote illustrates the magnitude of the character’s fear. It is a full force panic, and that in itself is hard to handle for someone of any age, much less someone around Ravi or Anna’s age. Once again, the matron of the story cannot share that feeling with her daughter, which leads to a larger conflict within the child. I think that both authors wrote with some intent of bringing attention to that inability to empathize. The use descriptive language aims to remind parents what it's like to be misunderstood in a situation that seems to be life or death to a juvenile mind. That overarching idea of empathy is what gives both of these texts a deeper, relatable meaning.
ReplyDeleteBoth “Games at Twilight” by Anita Desai and “The Scream” by H. Briscoe show that younger children tend to overreact to things that might not mean much, both stories have dark tones that show that when children argue it may have a deeper emotional effect on the child. In “The Scream” Briscoe’s description of how Mary acted when Anna got off the rollercoaster as antagonizing and mean: “Puzzled, Anna looked at Mary, calmly licking the surface of an orange ice lolly. Mary stared solidly back at her, no trace of any emotion on her features. Anna's eyes settled on the brown leather rucksack slung over her sister's shoulder, almost as if it had never moved from its current position.” (12) Mary decided not to go on the rollercoaster and had tricked Anna into going on the coaster, when Anna got off Mary acted as if nothing had happened. This traumatized Anna and made her feel sick. Likewise, in “Games at Twilight” Desai describes how Ravi’s reaction to making it to the “den” and the rest of the children, having moved on, did not care: “All this time no one had remembered Ravi. Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. Clean. 'Don't be a fool,' Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, 'Stop howling, Ravi. (9) If you want to play, you can stand at the end of the line,' and she put him there very firmly.” This reaction from the other children made Ravi furious, he felt like the rest of them had forgot about him and the game entirely, like they didn’t care. It also shows that the game meant much more to Ravi than just and afternoon game. It also shows that Ravi will have mental anguish because of the reaction from everyone around him. Clearly both Anna and Ravi feel traumatized by reactions of the activities and reaction from the people around them. They both feel a mix of negative emotions from the activities that normally people would enjoy doing, and the reaction from the people around them. The children's reactions show us that children may have a bigger impact emotionally from the activities they do and the reaction from the people around them.
ReplyDeleteIn Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” show how children are more emotional than logical. Adults however need to be more sensitive to children’s wide range of emotions in order to help them grow. In “The Scream” Anna gets off the roller coaster in overwhelming panic however her mother did not catch this emotion: “Enjoy the ride Anna?” Mum asked genuinely interested. “Mary told me you decided to try it on your own.” (7-8). Anna now does not anyone to comfort her while she is still processing her experience. This could over all make Anna believe she is not worth the time of her mother as her mother seems not to care and notice her pain. However in “Games at Twilight” Ravi’s mother does notice his distress but decides to knock him down for feeling so panicked by saying “Stop it, stop it, Ravi. Don’t be a baby. Have you hurt yourself?” (7). Ravi’s mother concluded that the only acceptable reason for him to be in panic would be because he was hurt not because he felt forgotten and sad. Both authors show examples of how not to treat children in emotional pain.
ReplyDeleteBoth “Games at Twilight” and “The Scream” demonstrate that sibling rivalry often exists, but sometimes can get out of hand and leave someone physically or emotionally hurt. In Games at Twilight, Ravi has a very strong rivalry with his siblings, and will do just about anything to beat them in the game. He thought he would be happy if he just won the game and beat his siblings, but when he won, he still ended up sad. None of his siblings seemed to care that he had won, and Ravi “had been forgotten, left out... He felt his heart go heavy and ache inside him unbearably. He lay down full length on the damp grass, crushing his face into it, no longer crying, silenced by a terrible sense of his insignificance” (Desai 8). Because of this extreme rivalry, Ravi ended up emotionally hurt because his siblings didn’t seem to care about him. In “The Scream” Anna also ended up hurt physically and emotionally. She really didn’t want to ride the roller coaster, so her sister saw the opportunity to make her sister miserable. The two girls had a strong sibling rivalry, so Mary tricked Anna into riding the roller coaster. Mary pretended to lose the bag, and told Anna that she left it under the seat. When Anna went back to look for it, “a metal bar had come down over her legs, leaving her unable to get out of the car” (Briscoe 9). Mary’s plan had worked perfectly because Anna was trapped in the car and couldn’t get out until the ride was over. Anna has a very miserable experience on the ride and even passed out afterwards. She had to endure this physical and emotional pain just because a strong sibling rivalry existed between her and her sister. Both stories can teach us that having too much of a sibling rivalry can often end in someone getting physically or emotionally hurt.
ReplyDeleteBoth these texts demonstrate that an argument, a big idea is true about [topic]; they suggest that fear experience as child can have a long term effect. In “Games at Twilight,” Desai uses death imagery to describe the game. Their mother responds to his crying by saying “Don’t be a baby!” (7-8). Which a lack of parenting and care can put fear into a child from feeling loneliness.This description shows that the game was much more serious than just a enjoyment game. The mom’s lack of communication and her emotion will set Ravi to have some future mental issues. “The Scream,” Briscoe’s description of the roller coaster is more like a monster than a enjoyment ride. “It was carved in the shape of an open mouth, thick red lips stretched in a silent scream, white teeth showing beneath and a black gaping hole” (7). This terrifying roller coaster is a metaphor for what Anna’s falling into, Anna felt sickness from fear. “she was filled with apprehension...her stomach left her body [and only then] she could scream, as loudly as was possible” (11). Clearly, both Anna and Ravi are going to be traumatized and have long term effects by the activities that normally entertain people, yet their mothers are unconcerned; Anna’s mother even forces Anna to take part in something the mom knows “makes her [daughter] ill” (4).The authors Anita Desai’s and H. Briscoe’s teach readers that children’s fears may indicate a deeper emotional issue.
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ReplyDeleteIn Both Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” make you realize that children are very bad at playing games and seeing it as just a game but more like a bad lesson.In the "Games at twilight" he is hiding and the other kids forget about him and he takes that very badly. He was sad and hurt and all the kids did not care and his mother said "Don't be a baby" and that made things worse because he thought that his mother did not care about him. when all the kids forgot about him even his mother did not realize he was not playing with the other kids. In "The Scream" the mom and mary made anna go on the rollercoaster even thou she said that she did not want to.
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ReplyDeleteBoth of these texts suggest that parents should pay more attention to their children so the rivalry doesn’t get too intense. A quote from "Games at Twilight" says “he hadn't much faith in his short legs when matched against Raghu's long, hefty, hairy footballer legs. Ravi had a frightening glimpse of them as Raghu combed the hedge of crotons and hibiscus, trampling delicate ferns underfoot as he did so. Ravi looked about him desperately, swallowing a small ball of snot in his fear.” (Desai). This shows that children take their competition seriously like where Ravi is actually fearful of being found. The author writes this with big words like frightening and desperately to show how much Ravi is invested in the game.The tone of the quote is panicked and pathos (emotional). A quote from “The Scream” says "(Anna) found herself resenting the way Mary always got what she wanted."... "You're not scared are you Anna? You're scared of everything."... "Okay," Anna said. "I'll take Mary on. I'll do it." Mary put her tongue back in her mouth, and smiled like a cat with a helpless mouse caught in its paws...the blame had gently shifted from Mary's shoulders to her own. Once again, Mary had twisted everything to make it seem as if it were her fault... Anna was crying as she stepped out of the golden car, returned to the safety of the big, dark room and the warm, friendly glow of the exit sign. She wiped the tears away with the back of her hand "I'm sorry I changed my mind about going on the roller coaster," Mary told her, green eyes wide and innocent. "It was just too scary after all." Anna felt the ground rushing up to meet her.” (Briscoe). This shows all the ways that siblings usually fight. They blame each other but it’s usually both their faults, they think the other has it better, and they trick each other into doing things. In this story with Anna and Mary, Briscoe takes the story to the extreme of tricking their siblings. The author used a simile with how Mary smiled when Anna took her challenge. That she looked “like a cat with a helpless mouse caught in it’s paws”. This shows that Mary thinks of it as she won that round of a competition. The word choice is what a young teenager’s word choice would be like. It has words a child would use and some bigger ones thrown in but the story has the tone of taunting from Mary and fear from Anna. This quote is pathos. There is a lot of emotion behind their words. If sibling rivalry gets too intense, the children will get childhood trauma which could affect them negatively in adulthood. What if out of two siblings, one was more favored by the parents because they got good grades and they repeatedly mocked the other? The other might never reach full potential because they think they can’t be good enough. Parents need to pay attention to both of their children or the sibling rivalry will hurt them.
ReplyDeleteIn the two short stories, “Games at Twilight” by Anita Desai and “The Scream” by H. Briscoe, both suggest that parents are more likely to have a favorite, and make the other kid(s) suffer. In In “Games at Twilight,” Desai shows how the mother goes off and does what she wants, and in the time being, Ravi hides for multiple hours, causing her to forget about her own son. “Out on the lawn, the children stopped chanting. They all turned to stare at him in amazement. Their faces were pale and triangular in the dusk. The trees and bushes around them stood inky and sepulchral, spilling long shadows across them. They stared, wondering at his reappearance, his passion, his wild animal howling. Their mother rose from her basket chair and came towards him, worried, annoyed, saying, 'Stop it, stop it, Ravi. Don't be a baby. Have you hurt yourself?’” (7) This shows how after hours of not seeing her own son, the mother seemed to careless about where he was, or how long he had been gone for, but to see if he was hurt. Similarly, in “The Scream,” Briscoe show how the mother is forcing Anna to basically go on a ride, that she knows that her daughter will be terrified of, but it seems to bring the mother joy, that her daughter went on it. “"Enjoy the ride Anna?" Mum asked, genuinely interested.” (11) Honestly, it seemed from there on out, her mom knew that her little sister forced her on the ride, but didn’t care. Both of the authors show how the mother’s don’t really care about how there children feel.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” demonstrate that children tend to view situations differently depending on their age; furthermore, they suggest through the use of their powerful language that parents should consider the age gap between children, becoming more cautious and aware of certain situations. In “Games of Twilight”, author Anita Desai uses a morbid and sorrowful tone to describe Raghu and the other children’s reactions to his victory by stating “Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. Clean. 'Don't be a fool,' Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, 'Stop howling, Ravi. If you want to play, you can stand at the end of the line,' and she put him there very firmly.” and then later adding “ Ravi could not bear it. He would not follow them, he would not be included in this funereal game. He had wanted victory and triumph - not a funeral. But he had been forgotten, left out and he would not join them now. The ignominy of being forgotten - how could he face it?” Both of the quotes illustrate the mental toll of the children’s forgetfulness on Ravi. To Ravi, the fun afternoon entertainment was no game, he wanted to win; however, the older kids did not view the game nor the entire situation like this. Furthermore, “The Scream” uses more playful language to describe the characters feelings: “Mary and her mother were standing beside the doorway as she came out, smiling at her. ‘Enjoy the ride Anna?’ Mum asked, genuinely interested. ‘Mary told me you decided to try it on your own.’” and later says “"I'm sorry I changed my mind about going on the roller coaster," Mary told her, green eyes wide and innocent. "It was just too scary after all." Anna felt the ground rushing up to meet her. The combination of Mary's grinning face, the swirling colours of the theme park, and the painful heat of the sun was too much. "I bought you the picture," Mum said somewhere in the distance, thrusting a glossy photo in a cardboard frame before her face. "It'll remind you of the holiday when we go home tonight ...". Clearly by the use of the words “painful” and “innocence” Mary and her mother did not view the situation the way Anna did. They pictured it as a fun way to allow Anna to let go of her fears while Anna saw it as traumatizing. Both Ravi and Anna were affected in different ways, but they both viewed the situation they were in differently from the rest of the characters in the story. Both of these stories teach us that the way we view certain situations may be different from the way others do, especially when you factor in age.
ReplyDeleteWell both stories start on a hot day and anna’s mom and ravi’s mom made them do something with their kin and these moms don't really care on what happens to their kids and the things their mothers made them do don’t end very well for both of them.
ReplyDeleteThis passage from the scream suggest that her mom made anna go with her sister.
And in games of twilight, ravis mom made him and his brother play hide and seek with a way to choos on who was the seeker.
For the scream the mom didn’t want to go on the ride with mary so she made anna go on it with knowing very well that anna was afraid of rollercoasters.
And in games of twilight the two siblings were fighting on what game to play and the mom got mad and decided for the nd how to choose who was it.
In the scream the author went into detail on how the character felt and what kind of trouble their were in.
And it games of twilight the author went into detail on what the character was thinking and where the character was.
And these kinda things happen in the real world when a parent doesn't want to watch the little child they make the older child watch them and the parent will have to sometimes find things to do for the kids and some parents can be up right laze and forget about their children or don't care about what there scared of.
ReplyDeletein both stories "games of twilight" by Anita Desai's and "the Scream", explains how parents are not taking enough action for their children. in both passages they show how parents trust their kids to much and they might loose them of something of value. in the story "the Scream" it shows how two little girls go off to a roller coaster with a bag full of checks and valuable stuff and the little kids marry and anna,""Mum said you had to," was all Mary said. "You promised."
"I did not!" Anna cried. "I didn't promise."
"You lied," Mary said, nastily. "That's worse."(5)
marry is trying to get anna on the ride. also in the story "games of twilight", all of her kids went out to play games and she would never know where one of the kids went because it's so easy to just disappear when nobody's looking."There wasn't a sound once his footsteps had gone around the garage and disappeared."(4) this shows if he did just keep walking away he could potentially be gone forever and she would not know and the kids would now know. these writers i think teach how you fast you can lose something so important if your not looking at the right second.
In “The Scream” and in “Games at twilight” the authors show how kids react to situations they are not comfortable in. It is important to watch the way these kids act because it shows a lot about people end adults and our need to win. These children are not experienced enough to know how to respond to a situation like the ones presented. Mary from “The Scream”’went the route of getting pay back instead of being mature and just forgetting the situation as a whole. Ravi from “Games at Twilight” had a very different approach to the situation. Ravi held out to try to win, in the end the reason both of these kids did this is to prove a point. Both of them wanted to get back at their sibling to prove a point. The point they were trying to prove is that they don't want to be pushed around. Which brings the question, Why do younger children feel the need to push back even tho they are clearly smaller? In “The Scream”’once Anna gets of the ride frozen In fear Mary calmly as ever says "I'm sorry I changed my mind about going on the roller coaster," Mary told her, green eyes wide and innocent. "It was just too scary after all." Mary at this point is just pushing her adjective to make a point even more. It is similar in “Games at Twilight” when ravi’s mother says ' Stop it, stop it, Ravi. Don't be a baby....” This is similar that even tho the game is just as silly as riding a roller coaster for most people they still are finding something to argue about to try to prove a point. The reason for most of the conflicts in stories is so one of the characters can prove something. These authors show the real similarities between stories and life between siblings and parents.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream,” demonstrate ,that Parent should not favor one child over another; they suggest that we should, a big idea is true about parent favoring a child over another; they suggest that we should pay attention to all of our children because if you don’t you're family may break apart and drift away. In “Games of Twilight” Ravi and Raghu play hide and seek with some friends. They play a game to see who would be the seeker and Raghu lossed, so he became the seeker in the game. While Ravi was hiding he fell into a shed. Raghu happened to be walking by but did not find Ravi. Raghu walks away and Ravi stays in the shed. As time pass Ravi is still in the shed he realizes that he could win the game if he goes and touches the wall. He runs and touches the wall but realizes that they forgot about him even his mom and discovers new feeling. Ravi says “What fun if they were all found and caught - he alone left unconquered! He had never known that sensation”. What Ravi is seeing and feeling is that he is unwanted. He see all of his friends and brother having fun cheering and when he shows up everyone does not real care if he was found or not. Just like in “Games of Twilight’ the “The Scream” show how parent favor one child over another. Anna did not want to go on the roller coaster but she was tricked into going by her sister Mary. Her mom left her to go on the Roller coaster with Mary. One of things her mom said was "Of course she's scared. Any person in their right mind would be. But it's only a ride, Anna. Surely you can make it onto a ride without feeling ill for once, you're always afraid of things like that, it's getting ridiculous ...". Anna mom is pushing her to be more like Mary and not be afraid to do things, but she ends up pushing her to hard. Also Mary does not help either she tricks Anna to go get the bag when in fact she has it. Then when Anna gets up to the ride she get locked in to the seat and can not get out of it. Then the roller coaster starts and she closes her eyes for the hole ride. Once it ended she gets back to her sister and see that her mom is with her. Her mom comes up to her shows her her picture she bought. Anna the looks at Mary to see she has the bag and that she was trick into go on the ride and it looks like her mom was in it. They forced her into know she could get sick or worse. These author teach us that a lot of parents will favor one child over another.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” demonstrates that younger children sometimes need more attention than they tend to receive. The lack of love the mothers seem to show the children could eventually lead to bigger issues in the children. In “Games at Twilight”, Desai seems to portray a feeling of loneliness in Ravi when the mother states “Stop it, stop it, Ravi. Don't be a baby” (7) the text then goes on to say “All this time no one had remembered Ravi. Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. Clean.” (7). The authors word choice in these sentences makes it seem like Ravi truly isn’t cared about and probably is feeling very lonely which could lead to a deeper issue for him in the future. In the short story “The Scream” Briscoe makes Anna seem like she is just the older sister who gets pushed around not only by her sister but her mother as well. When the mother says “you can go with Anna” (3) and then later on in the story says “Enjoy the ride Anna? Marry decided to try it on your own” (12). Through how the mother acted in the story towards Anna by volunteering her for something she clearly didn’t want to do without seeing how she truly felt about it shows us she doesn’t pay much attention to Anna to realize how she truly feels about this situation. Both Anna and Ravi show us that the neglection of a parent when they need them the most could lead to future issues and feelings of being forgotten and being lonely. Both of these authors demonstrate that neglection can lead to future bigger picture problems for a child.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” show that children have underlying fears that cause them have powerful emotions; the language and parent involvement in each story suggests that parents should have a greater sense of a children’s emotions in order to prevent mental breakdowns and overthinking. In “Games at Twilight,” Desai uses the game of hide in seek to bring out one of Ravis hidden fears after describing his emotions once he came out of hiding when she writes, “The ignominy of being forgotten - how could he face it? He felt his heart go heavy and ache inside him unbearably. He lay down full length on the damp grass, crushing his face into it, no longer crying, silenced by a terrible sense of his insignificance.” (8). This description shows that Ravi had never thought his own family would forget about him and leave him out of everything else they did in the night. Ravi was crippled with disappointment and sadness that could have been avoided with sympathy from his mom, but instead his mother responded to him by saying “Stop it. Stop it. Ravi, don’t be a baby.” (7). Likewise, in “The Scream,” Briscoes description of Anna’s emotion when her mother forced her to go on the roller coaster with mary reveals her fears of the “monster” when she writes, “A piercing white light from one of the tunnels preceded a deep rumbling noise, warning of the roller coaster's arrival. Like a monstrous beast bursting from its lair, glowing eyes and long twisting tail, Anna could actually feel the ground vibrating under her feet, as the previous circuit of the roller coaster came to a grinding halt in front of them.”(6) This is a simile to describe the what Anna is seeing to make her fear this rollercoaster. As she is overwhelmed with fear, she runs out in order to avoid her body not being able to function. Her mother did not help this when Anna told her she didn’t want to go on the ride and her mom responded with,
ReplyDelete"... and I know Mary's older now, but if you go too, Anna, she'll be safe--"(4) This response upset Anna and made her feel as if her mother didn’t value what she was feeling when she knows the ride “makes her [daughter] ill”, she felt as if she had been ignored to accommodate Mary’s wants. These authors teach readers that children’s underlying fears could cause a overwhelming emotion without a parents involvement in the resolving the issue.
Both "Games at Twilight" by Anita Desai and "The Scream" by H. Briscoe's show that children have a natural tendency to compete. This is ravi talking about what would happen if he won “To defeat Raghu - that hirsute, hoarse-voiced football champion - and to be the winner in a circle of older, bigger, luckier children - that would be thrilling beyond imagination. He hugged his knees together and smiled to himself almost shyly at the thought of so much victory, such laurels.” ("Games at Twilight" Anita Desai) this is a good quote because haw competitive ravi is. Likewise in “The Scream” “Mary stared slyly at her sister, narrowing her eyes and turning the corners of her mouth into a half-smile. "You're not scared are you Anna? You're scared of everything."” ("The Scream" H. Briscoe's) the to sisters are very competitive, the one makes the other go on a roller coaster. This teaches children that there will always be comitishion.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai's "Games of Twilight" and H. Briscoe's "The Scream," demonstrate that when parents leave kids alone, they often act differently and show less emotion toward one another. This suggests that parent should teach their kids to be sympathetic. In "Games of Twilight," Desai tells us how the other kids had completely forgotten about Ravi and how they didn't even care about Ravi's achievement. After he had been forgotten about Desai describes how "Their mother rose from her basket chair and came towards him, worried, annoyed, saying, 'Stop it, stop it, Ravi. Don't be a baby. Have you hurt yourself?' Seeing him attended to, the children went back to clasping their hands and chanting" (7). This shows that the children and their mom did not care about how Ravi was feeling. His mom didn't even ask him about what had happened, she just told him to stop. After they saw that their mom had attended to Ravi, the other kids just kept on playing their game without even thinking about Ravi. In "The Scream," Briscoe describes how Mary purposely tricked Anna into getting onto the roller coaster. She didn't care that Anna was afraid of the roller coaster. Briscoe says “Anna felt the ground rushing up to meet her. The combination of Mary's grinning face, the swirling colours of the theme park, and the painful heat of the sun was too much” (12) This shows that Mary didn’t a lot about how Anna felt about Mary tricking her onto the roller coaster. She didn’t think about how scared Anna was of the ride. This happens all of the time in real life. Me and my siblings used to do things to each other without thinking about how they would feel about it. This is why I think parents should start teaching their kids about sympathy at a younger age.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai's "Games of Twilight" and H. Briscoe's "The Scream" demonstrate that sometimes parents have to force their children to do thing that they don’t always want to do to help them grow as an individual. In the story “Games at Twilight” the mom is getting annoyed at Ravi after he’s acting childish after he wins the game and no one want to recognize him for it she says, “Stop it, stop it, Ravi. Don't be a baby.” (7) This is showing Ravi the facts of life, that you don’t always get congratulated when you do something that you deserve to be congratulated on. In the text “The Scream” the younger sister tricks her older sister by “losing the rucksack” and making her go on the roller coaster to go find it when she had it the whole time. In the text it states, “‘Her legs gave way from under her, and she couldn't stop herself falling. Down again. Would she ever stop falling? The world went black as her eyelids folded closed.’You don't half look frightened in the picture, Anna,’ commented Mum. ‘Anna?’ She stared down at the floor. ‘Anna?’” After the ride her mom and sister greet her at the exit and Anna ends up fainting because of her fear of roller coasters. This idea of pushing children out of their comfort zones can cause a lot of trauma.
ReplyDeleteThe short stories, “Games at Twilight”, by Anita Desai and “The Scream”, by H. Briscoe, both demonstrates how sibling rivalry can influence decisions that children make because of consequences, favoritism, and annoyingness.
ReplyDeleteIn the scream, after Anna found out that mary lost the bag, Anna told her to go back and get the bag. Mary said no and convinced anna to go get it since she was supposed to be watching her. It says, “‘No, of course not," Mary answered. "But you were supposed to be looking after me. You should go back and get the bag." All of a sudden, Anna saw it. How the blame had gently shifted from Mary's shoulders to her own. Once again, Mary had twisted everything to make it seem as if it were her fault.”’ Anna goes and faces her greatest fear just so that she didn’t get in trouble because of something that her younger sister did.
The writer makes mary seem like she actually lost the rucksack to make the reader also believe that she lost it.
In Games at twilight, Ravi is hiding from his siblings in a game of hide and seek. He finally decides to try and run to the safe zone and when he gets there the siblings realize that they had forgotten about him. It says, “The ignominy of being forgotten - how could he face it? He felt his heart go heavy and ache inside him unbearably. He lay down full length on the damp grass, crushing his face into it, no longer crying, silenced by a terrible sense of his insignificance.” He was affected greatly by seeing how much he means to his siblings to be forgotten so easily.
The writer uses very descriptive words for to show the pain that Ravi feels about being forgotten about.
I feel like in my life sibling rivalry affects me a lot because I do a lot of things on purpose based on how I’m feeling about my siblings at the moment and it affects how they feel about me.
“Games At Twilight” By: Anita Desai, and “The Scream By: H. Bricoe, are two stories that represent a rivalry between two pairs of siblings, with one of the siblings getting what they want at the end. In “The Scream” the little sister Mary tricked Anna so she could feel some power over her within the riviraly. "Enjoy the ride Anna?" Mum asked, genuinely interested. "Mary told me you decided to try it on your own." (pg, 11 par. 5). To compare that quote with sibling rivalry in the story “Games At Twilight” it says “ “'I won, I won, I won,' he bawled, shaking his head so that the big tears flew. 'Raghu didn't find me. I won, I won—'” (pg. 8 par. 3). Ravi immediately wanted to show pride in winning over Raghu rather than Anna being more settle and being passive aggressive. The two quotes very much connect since they are both about having power over the other sibling which is exactly what happened at the end. Mary was tricked to go on the roller coaster and Ravi winning over Raghu at hide and seek. The two siblings that won had to show pride over it even if it was a sneaky kind of pride. This type of rivalry could be going on everywhere in the world with different cases that happen, rather than a different type of game or a race.
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ReplyDeleteBoth H. Briscoe's "The Scream" and Anita Desai's "Games at Twilight demonstrate that a big idea is true about being a child and having siblings. They suggest that sibling rivalry is a big part of learning valuable life lessons. In both texts, there is a sibling rivalry that is illustrated throughout the story. Although both of the stories demonstrate a sibling relationship, they both teach different lessons that relate to childhood. In H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” Briscoe uses a typical annoyed older sister and sassy younger sister relationship to portray a message about fear. The quote "I'm sorry I changed my mind about going on the roller coaster," Mary told her, green eyes wide and innocent. "It was just too scary after all." (12) helps the author show how fear can be intertwined with a common sibling rivalry. The little sister Mary, toys with her big sister’s Anna fear of roller coasters and shows how a sibling rivalry can be cruel in that way but that it can also teach you how to face your fears and get through something that is very scary which is an important skill to have in life. In Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” Desai uses a sibling relationship that includes a younger and older brother to help teach the lesson of being independent and picking yourself up off the ground. The quote “The ignominy of being forgotten - how could he face it? He felt his heart go heavy and ache inside him unbearably.” (8) assists the author in expressing how the younger brother Ravi felt when his older brother Raghu when they had forgotten about him. The quote really illustrates the feelings that Ravi was having about the situation and it just shows how situations like that are going to happen sometimes. You have to learn how to be independent and not let things like that get to your head. Both of these texts use sibling rivalry to express how important lessons like how to face fear and be independent are to learn in childhood.
Both Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream” portray themes relevant to opportunity. In both texts characters have choices that also have outcomes, though maybe they weren’t ready for the consequences. In “Games at Twilight” Ravi has a choice to stay hidden or slip into the shed. This choice ultimately leads to the spiral of emotions he is to eventually feel by the end of the story. For reference, the text says, “...Raghu's whistling grew angrier and sharper and his crashing and storming in the hedge wilder, Ravi suddenly slipped off the flower pot and through the crack and was gone” (3-4). Ravi made his choice based on his emotions getting the best of him. This then leads to the consequence of feeling empty and alone when he comes to the conclusion that his family forgot of his presence which all started with his choice to hide in the shed rather than run or for any other scenario to occur. During “The Scream” Anna had a choice to ride The Scream with her sister Marry. Her decision to let Marry on the ride herself ultimately leads to her spiral of emotions that she was anything but ready for. "Don't move. Just look after this bag, okay, and I'm going to go and find the rucksack,” the text says. Well little did Anna know that her choice to be responsible and look for the ruck sack would eventually downfall into her consequence. Anna is then forced to ride The Scream and has a panic attack. This shows that in both texts characters feel the need to take on a challenge as they need to prove themselves, though while not knowing the consequences characters are then to have experiences they will take with them for the rest of their lives. Reality seems to have this affect as people in their everyday lives take on challenges they feel obliged to do. Not because they want to impress someone but because they want to prove something to themselves. Ultimately when this happens no one is ready for the consequences much less are they expecting them.
ReplyDeleteBoth Anita Desai’s “Games at Twilight” and H. Briscoe’s “The Scream,” demonstrate ,that Parent should not favor one child over another; they suggest that we should, a big idea is true about parent favoring a child over another; they suggest that we should pay attention to all of our children because if you don’t you're family may break apart and drift away. In “Games of Twilight” Ravi and Raghu play hide and seek with some friends. They play a game to see who would be the seeker and Raghu lossed, so he became the seeker in the game. While Ravi was hiding he fell into a shed. Raghu happened to be walking by but did not find Ravi. Raghu walks away and Ravi stays in the shed. As time pass Ravi is still in the shed he realizes that he could win the game if he goes and touches the wall. He runs and touches the wall but realizes that they forgot about him even his mom and discovers new feeling. Ravi says “What fun if they were all found and caught - he alone left unconquered! He had never known that sensation”. What Ravi is seeing and feeling is that he is unwanted. He see all of his friends and brother having fun cheering and when he shows up everyone does not real care if he was found or not. Just like in “Games of Twilight’ the “The Scream” show how parent favor one child over another. Anna did not want to go on the roller coaster but she was tricked into going by her sister Mary. Her mom left her to go on the Roller coaster with Mary. One of things her mom said was "Of course she's scared. Any person in their right mind would be. But it's only a ride, Anna. Surely you can make it onto a ride without feeling ill for once, you're always afraid of things like that, it's getting ridiculous ...". Anna mom is pushing her to be more like Mary and not be afraid to do things, but she ends up pushing her to hard. Also Mary does not help either she tricks Anna to go get the bag when in fact she has it. Then when Anna gets up to the ride she get locked in to the seat and can not get out of it. Then the roller coaster starts and she closes her eyes for the hole ride. Once it ended she gets back to her sister and see that her mom is with her. Her mom comes up to her shows her her picture she bought. Anna the looks at Mary to see she has the bag and that she was trick into go on the ride and it looks like her mom was in it. They forced her into know she could get sick or worse. These author teach us that a lot of parents will favor one child over another.
ReplyDeleteBoth these texts demonstrate that siblings don’t get along, a big idea is true about sibling rivalry; they suggest that we should take into consideration that siblings are family and we we do can affect them more than we think it will, this idea goes for all family members. In The Scream it says “"I don't want to go on the roller coaster. I'd be ill - you know I would.": This is suggesting Mary is trying to get Anna to do something she knows Anna would hate doing which is a sibling rivalry. In the text Games of Twilight it says “It took them a minute to grasp what he was saying, even who he was. They had quite forgotten him. Raghu had found all the others long ago.” This quote is proving there’s a sibling rivalry because All of Ravi’s siblings forgot he existed. Both of these quotes are suggesting siblings not getting along causing a rivalry. Neither of the antagonist siblings realized how much it hurt the targets. In neither story did the characters care about one another’s feelings. The author is showing the readers with they way the stories are written that sibling rivalry is a main idea. In both stories the authors emphasize the feud in the families. In the quotation from The Scream it doesn’t just say the word sick, it says “ill” making it noticable. In the quotation from The Games of Twilight the author uses the words “grasp” and “quite” which aren’t used on a daily basis therefor making it noticable. These quotes were written with heavier language to match the heavier purpose, in both cases the siblings are saying/doing very hurtful things and the authors wants the readers to pick up on it. In reality there are many cases of sibling rivalry, it isn’t unusual. Siblings are now just expected to have a rivalry, it isn’t a surprise anymore. I don’t know one pair of siblings that don’t have a rivalry, making this a very common issue that I think needs to change.
ReplyDeleteBoth Games at Twilight and The Scream show us that Sibling rivalry is always existent but with the absence of parenthood even for a few moments will bring sibling rivalry into light.
ReplyDeleteIn the scream Mary’s mother decided not to go on the ride and to send Mary’s sister with her. Then problems arose."Sure, it's not that bad. I think I'll still give it a miss though." Then after the ride "No, of course not," Mary answered. "But you were supposed to be looking after me. You should go back and get the bag." After Anna and Mary’s mother decided to make them go together on the roller coaster (an absence of parenthood) the two siblings continued to butt heads the entire time, eventually resulting in the purse being lost. Because the two had been left alone, their attitude towards each other got the best of them because they had nobody to set them straight like their mom.Especially in the second quote you can see that the author made it seem like Mary was blaming Anna for losing the bag. In Games at Twilight when Ravi had finally emerged from his hiding spot and went to confront his siblings they responded with this. 'Don't be a fool,' Raghu said roughly, pushing him aside, and even Mira said, 'Stop howling, Ravi. If you want to play, you can stand at the end of the line,' and she put him there very firmly.
Ravi had spent his time in and was dedicated to win this game that he cared very much about . Yet his siblings treated him like dirt and crushed his spirit. Without the presence of their mother we get to see how much differently the children act towards each other. The author made the entire pace of the story fit Ravi’s emotions and everything was vivid and exciting until he met with his siblings and the pace of everything slowed and became sad. I also understand that the presence of a parent can change the way me and my brother treat each other. When our parents aren’t around we are more inclined to treat each other with disrespect. The presence of parenthood in a child’s life is a lot more important than some people realize.