What does this story say about people in general? In what ways does it remind you of people you know, experiences, you have had, other stories, a movie, and/or pieces of art?
REMEMBER: In order to be "insightful" and "perceptive" you should try connecting everything to the theme (what it says about people in general).
***Also, remember that correct spelling, grammar, and mechanics enhance the clarity of your responses. Please refer to the previously given "BLOG RUBRIC" to help understand my expectations. I might also look at previous blogs (especially in period 2) to give you a sense of what you need to do.
I'VE BEEN READING SOME OF YOUR POSTS. KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE A CONNECTION AND THAT RESPONSES SHOULD BE ABOUT 200-250 WORDS!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
16 comments:
I think that this story talks about people in a kind of fatigued way. Fatigued might be a strong word but it’s because the story doesn’t say it out front. I think this story talks about how when people get good at something and other people around them like the little girl who is really good at chess and her family like her brothers that were jealous about her because she didn’t have to do any chores. Also her mother wasn’t jealous but she did take a lot of pride by showing off her daughter. So I think that if there is someone who your close to that gets famous for doing something can really have an impact on close friends and loved ones. But not all the impacts are good. This story actually reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons. Lisa gets a job as a sitter and watches kids. Soon she gets such a good reputation that everyone wants her and she’s making loads of money. Her brother, Bart, gets increasingly jealous and doesn’t like the fact that she can get out of doing simple things like chores. And soon they end up in a fight just because he’s jealous.
The story “Rules of the Game” reminds me of a movie when there is a girl that is really good at basketball so she tries out for the team and makes it. Then as she starts winning the games for her team her friend starts to show her off .After a while people start to think that they are cool and everyone in school starts to give them special treatment. Just like in the story “Rules of the Game” the mom gives her daughter special treatment and privileges just because she is winning all the chess games. I think this says that people in general will in a way use people to fit on or get special treatment just like in “Rules of the Game” and the movie.
I think the story, Rules of the Game shows how people in general always are selfish at times and will do anything to show off. In the story a little girl is a prodigy at chess. She beats everyone she plays and even wins a national championship. Because of this she gets very famous and her mom uses her to show off. This story reminds me of a time I saw this movie where a hockey team was very bad but they get a really good player and he makes them win all of the games that they play. They use him to show off to all the kids in school just like the girls mother shows her off to all the people in the neighborhood. Well, after a while the hockey player gets tired of being shown off by everyone and he quits the team, just like the little girl from the story is tired of her mom showing her off all the time just because she is really good at chess.
The short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan generally shows how people are good and well rounded. But as you know, there are those that are bad, but they turn this way mostly due to a horrible experience in their life. For Instance, Once Waverly started to win all these chess games, she began to live a whole new lifestyle, such as not doing her chores, not finishing her entire dinner, and she even got her own room. On the other hand, Before she was good at chess she would not have been able to get away with these things. But however, Waverly got these things cause she was being egotistical and self-centered. Due to her winning , Her mom began to obsessively brag about her daughter Waverly, which happens to change her personality and begins to become less liked by her daughter. Soon after , Waverly begins to disregard her mother. While Waverly is in her room, she begins to thing that she is losing “The game of life” versus her mother. She envisions this through a metaphor while she is playing chess with her mother. Therefore, I can connect to this theme through a story in which we all read called “The One Who Watches.” In this story, the main character Doris is a good, average person up until she begins to hangout with a girl named Yolanda, who is bad. Although Yolanda seemed bad, She was most likely a lovely young lady who turned bad probably because she didn’t spend a lot of time with her parents. These events just so happen to be similar because they both started out as good people who turned bad by a bad experience in their life. So, the story “Rules of the Game” says a lot about people in general.
“Rules of The Game” shows the power of pride and over-confidence. Waverly Jong, a young Chinese girl who became a well-known chess player, had a lot to be proud of. When her brother Vincent first got a chess set at the First Chinese Baptist Church’s Christmas Party, he didn’t allow his sister to play. However, when she offered to let him use Life Savers as substitutes for the two chess men missing from the set, Vincent agreed to let his sister join in. Although Waverly didn’t know the American rules to the game, she became very fascinated and studied techniques at the library, learning how to control the board, and even the chess pieces themselves. Waverly found some old men who played chess against eachother at a nearby park, and one day she asked for a game. After coming back for several games, her playing improved and soon she started to enter tournaments. Throughout the tournaments, Waverly took home many first place trophies, and Mrs. Jong felt a big sense of pride in her daughter, and wanted everyone to know she was her mother. After a while, Waverly got fed up with her bragging and told her mom that if she wanted to show off, that she should play chess for herself. Waverly got so upset that she even ran away from home for a little while. To me, I think Waverly’s mother should be proud of her, but not to a point where Waverly gets embarrassed and doesn’t want to play. A connection I can make to this short story, is when my friend won a very big talent show for her state. She had the right to be proud, but she showed off her win so much that her cockiness made her lose some of her friends. Being proud is one thing, but rubbing it in other people’s faces never ends well.
The story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, says that people overall can be sometimes too proud and be a little cocky when they don’t realize it. I think this because in the story Waverly is a Chinese American girl with two brothers and a mother who is very strict. She makes them do all there chores and finish all there rice at dinner. Until they get a new chess board and Waverly becomes a new kid prodigy of the game of chess. She wins championships and beats older opponents. Waverly’s mother loves the fact that her daughter is so good at chess so she doesn’t make her do chores anymore or finish her rice at dinner, and on top of that she gets her own room. The brothers have to split her jobs along with there jobs. Waverly’s mother does this so that she can practice chess non stop and get better. Everything is going well until one day Waverly goes to the store with her mother. And Waverly’s mother feels the need to tell everyone that Waverly is her daughter. So Waverly gets mad and says that it is embarrassing that she keeps showing her off and that she should go learn how to play chess if she wants to show off. I can connect this scene to the movie “Friday Night Lights” because in the movie the running back Booby Miles who is also a kid prodigy, is very cocky and likes to show off in front of everybody. In conclusion, in both the movie and the story it says overall people can become too proud and act cocky.
I think this story says that people in general can be greedy and selfish at times. Also it shows that people can take too much pride in showing off their friends sometimes. This reminds me of my friend who is really good at school and gets good grades all the time. Her mom all ways brags about her and she feels like she has to be good or her mom will be disappointed in her. Sometimes she just wants to take a break and not feel like it is horrible to get a 94 on a quiz. This is like when Waverly’s mom treats her really nicely and she does not have to do chores when she wins matches. But instead of my friend’s mom praising her she just expects her daughter to get good grades all the time.
The story “Rules of the Game” Generally showed that some people are very competitive players. For example, Waverly is a very exceptional player when it comes to chess. But Waverly’s mom is even better. Waverly is a lot younger than her mom, and has a hard time beating her, this makes Waverly upset. It reminds me of my sister who always wants to win games. She’s always happy when she wins, But when it comes to losing, she has bad sportsmanship. Because my little sister is younger than me, it’s more likely that she loses.
I think that “Rules of the Game” shows that people can take advantage of other people and not know it. In this story a little girl plays chess and gets really good at it. While this girl gets really good at chess her mother shows her off like a trophy. This is being selfish because a person shouldn’t be treated like a trophy. This reminds me of a movie when this boy gets really good at dirt biking and wins the motor cross championships and his dad brags and shows him off to everyone and this kid doesn’t like it. I can relate to this movie and book because I won a couple dirt bike races and my dad showed me off like a trophy but I didn’t really care. But the point is a person shouldn’t be taken for granted and be shown off like a trophy. This is why I think this story shows people taking advantage of other people.
I think the story “Rules of the Game” has a message about people in general. I think the message about people shown in “Rules of the Game” was that fame gets to people. The main character is a great chess player and quickly becomes famous for it. As she begins winning more and more tournaments her family treats her differently like giving her less chores and letting her not finish her dinner. Then one day while shopping with her mom she got in an argument with her and then ran off. To her mother this was a big sign of disrespect. Her parents then thought that she was not grateful of the way her parents were treating her. This shows that she is letting the fame get to her. I think that fame gets to everyone and it’s shown in many movies. In the movie 21 the main character learns to count cards. Once he gets good he lets it get to his head and turns his back on his friends. I think this movie is similar to the story Rules of The Game because in both the main characters get good at something and it changes them.
The story “Rules of the Game” tells a lot about people in general. It shows that people can be really competitive and take certain things really seriously. They get too caught up in something and forget about the fact that they should just be having fun. This happened to Waverly. She was young and a child prodigy of a chess player. For her age she was amazing and so into the game. However, she should of just been having fun. But she took it too far. Her mother did not help the situation either. She pushed her daughter to do better then she already was and expected so much of her. Also, from Waverly winning, her mother got “bragging rights.” She walked around town telling everything that Waverly was her daughter and acted proud to show her off. A lot of people in general tend to brag about the nice things they have that everyone else doesn’t. I remember in 7th grade there was this girl that was so spoiled and rich and got everything she wanted. In school, she would come in with the nicest phones, iPods, and clothes and she tried to make everyone jealous. This relates back to Waverly’s mother. She tried to make everyone jealous that she had a daughter that was pretty much a genius at chess. At the end of the story, Waverly and her mom get into a fight and Waverly’s mom pretty much looses all respect for Waverly. This happens to a lot of people. Many people just don’t have a good relationship with their mother or daughter. My friend and her mom got into this big fight one time and I know for them it just hasn’t been the same since then. This is probably going to be the situation for Waverly and her mom. If there was more to the story, I bet that their relationship either never gets completely fixed or it takes a long time.
The story " Rules of the Game" is about a girl named Waverly Jong. Waverly is an average little eight-year-old girl. In the story Waverly and her brothers go to a Christmas party for the less fortunate held at the church. At the party they got to pick a gift out of Santa’s bag. Waverly got lots of lifesavers while one of her brothers got a chess set. At the time no one knew that the chess set would end up being the start of a new adventure. Chess became a big part of Wavely’s family’s lives. Her brothers played all of the time. Sometimes, Waverly would watch her brothers play chess. She observed and began getting very interested and fascinated by the game. Waverly ended up learning how to play chess. She became such a good chess player that she started going into competitions. Waverly won against people much older than she was. By the age of ten she was a chess sensation. Her mother loved soaking up all of the fame and popularity that her daughter was getting. When Waverly's mom wanted her to go into town with her for the day she agreed, but Waverly got very upset when her mother was showing her off. This story says a lot about people in general, including that people are crude when it comes to fame and fortune and everyone wants what they can’t have. Waverly wants to be unknown and a kid, but her mom wants her to be known and famous. This reminds me of a book I read about a girl named Hallie. Hallie was a 14-year-old girl that already had the fame and fortune because she was a model. However Hallie hated modeling but her mom insisted and didn't care about what her daughter wanted. Hallie’s mother just wanted her to be famous. This is similar to Waverly’s situation. The difference is that Waverly loves chess, where as, Hallie hates modeling. In my opinion, this story says about people in general, that everyone wants something that they can’t have. Waverly wants to be a child and her mother wants to be famous and get attention from others. Hallie wants to do anything but model; however her mother wants the fame and fortune. Some people always feel the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
In the short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan generally shows that people are spoiled. In the story Waverly starts to play chess. She enters tournaments and wins metals. She gains sponsors by many people. Her mom said that she does not need to finish her dinner and do the chores. This shows that she is becoming spoiled. Her brothers think that this new lifestyle is not fair because they still have to do the work. This reminds me of a time when my baseball team and I entered a tournament in Long Island. We wound up winning all the games and we beat the best team there. My mom treated me like a king. I did not have to do any chores that day. I had the whole day to relax. On the other hand no matter how well you love your new life style you always respect your elders. This also go’s under being spoiled. You are so spoiled that you forget who is the boss of you. At the end of the story that happens. Waverly is sick of getting shown off. She disrespectfully tells her mom, “Stop Showing Me Off!!”, then walks away. When they got home Waverly’s mom stairs her down and shows her who is boss. This story shows that people are spoiled.
What “Rules of the Game” says about people is that people want to show off what they have. They feel proud and they feel good about themselves. In a book that I read there was this girl that was good at sports and her parents wanted to show her off and wanted her to play more sports. The girl was getting tired of her parents always saying that she was great at sports. One day she told her parents that she didn’t like what her parents were doing and her parents did not talk to her after that. Just like Waverly told her mom that she didn’t like her saying to everyone that she was a champion at playing chess. After telling her mom to stop showing her off, she ran way, when she came home, her mom and family wasn’t speaking to her. I can connect to “Rules of the Game.”
The story “The Rules of the Game” shows that people in generals’ actions are based on the circumstance. For instance in the book at first Waverly wouldn’t have ever asked to leave dinner early because she had to finish it as not to waste it, however once she was recognized as a prodigy she could simply say she wasn’t hungry and leave. In addition when she became famous she got a little arrogant and talked back to her mother. Also her mother’s actions were based on circumstance too; when Waverly had become famous her mother began showing her off to random strangers. She would have no reason to show her off had she never become famous.
In the story “Rules of the Game” it tells a lot about how people are in general. It shows us how greedy people can be and how people can take advantage of others. Waverly Jong, is an eight year old chess legend, and her mother takes advantage of this by showing her off to the public. This reminds me of a movie I once saw, where a young Hispanic teenager who was nothing at first, becomes a soccer champion and gets drafted to the strongest team in the world. His parents would always show him off to relatives or just random people walking down the streets. He was always embarrassed when his parents did this, then eventually, like Waverly he stood up to them. The story and the soccer movie both show that people are greedy and will show off the first chance they get.
Post a Comment