Main character: Calvin from Bill Watterson's comic, Calvin and Hobbes
"Calvin! Your attention please! Why are you daydreaming again?" screamed Mrs Wormwood, almost at the verge of tearing her hair out. Calvin snapped out of his daydream. He was Spaceman Spiff, a superhero battling three-eyed aliens that looked like bugs. With a scowl, he ruffled his bright yellow, tousled hair and looked up with his sparkling eyes. "Now Calvin, if you don't pay attention I am afraid I will have to call up your parents for the fifth time this week! Summarise what I have just said!" Mrs Wormwood remarked sternly. "Sorry, I'm here against my own will! I refuse to co-operate! They can transport my body to school, but they will not be able to get my spirit! My spirit roams free! No one can stop it, no four walls will confine it and authority has no power over it!" protested Calvin as he flailed his arms. His bright red shirt with black stripes stood out in a sea of nondescript white and pale shades of blue and yellow. It made him seem under the limelight. Mrs Wormwood was lost for words upon hearing his audacious outburst and the class gasped at his daring protests. With a face as red as a tomato, Mrs Wormwood grabbed his ear and dragged a yowling Calvin to the discipline master.
Hi Aik Yang, I felt that your description of Calvin in this post is extremely humourous. Though I am not a fan of the strip, I could sense that Calvin is an extremely interesting. Calvin seems to be an extremely dramatic character from this point of view, as though his physical appearance is that of a young boy, his speech is completely different. From his ferocious proclamation to Mrs Wormwood, he seems extremely ferocious in his anti-school speech, more like that coming from a Communist agitator than a mere school boy. Also, you brought out Calvin's uniqueness by showing that he was dressed differently, as seen from "His bright red shirt with black stripes stood out in a sea of nondescript white and pale shades of blue and yellow." Calvin seems to be an unique person, and I felt that your story contains more meaning than a young boy defying school. I felt that the original creator of the script is trying to show that if we could not express ourselves like Calvin, we might lose our freedom and individuality, and regard the expression of our freedom as an oddity, from "class gasped at his daring protests", we might be just like the 'class', brain-dead workers.
ReplyDelete