Linguistic Intelligence Question (c)

I'm going to try to depict a scene from a novel. I chose this because in this short scene, it shows one of the themes of To Kill A Mockingbird—courage. This scene is on page 205 to 208.

{Scout and Dill sit on the left side under the fattest oak. Spotlight focuses on them}
Dill:(sad whine) It was just him I couldn't stand.

Scout:(curious, tinge of concern) Who? Tom?

Dill:(angry)That old Mr Gilmer doin' him thataway, talking so hateful to him—

Scout:(consoling, explaining)Dill, that's his job. (exclaim) Why, if we didn't have prosecutors-(finishes rather lamely) we couldn't have defence attorneys, I reckon.

Dill:(exhales impatiently)I know all that, Scout. It was the way he said it made me (emphasize)sick, plain sick.

Scout:(consoling, explaining)He's supposed to act that way, Dill, he was cross—

Dill:(protesting)He didn’t act that way when—

Scout:(explaining)Dill, those were (emphasize) his own witnesses.

Dill:(protesting)Well, Mr Finch didn’t act that way to Mayella and old man Ewell when he cross-examined them. The way that man called him “boy” all the time and sneered at him, an’ looked around at the jury every time he answered—

Scout:(matter-of-factly)Well, Dill, after all he’s just a Negro.

Dill:(angry)Well I don’t care one speck. It ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do ‘em that way. Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that—it just makes me sick.

Scout:(consoling, explaining)That’s just Mr Gilmer’s way, Dill, he does ‘em all that way. You’ve never seen him get good’n down on one yet. Why, when—well, today Mr Gilmer seemed to me like he wasn’t half trying. They do ‘em all that way, most lawyers, I mean.

Dill:(snap) Mr Finch doesn’t.

Scout:(explaining) He’s not an example, Dill, he’s—(pauses, think hard, then suddenly continues)He’s the same in the courtroom as he is on the public streets.

Dill:(confused look) That’s not what I mean.

[Unknown voice from comes from the right side of the tree trunk.]

Unknown voice: I know what you mean, boy.

[Scout and Dill turn around to look. Dolphus Raymond peers from around the tree trunk to look at the two children.]

Dolphus:(knowing) You aren’t thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn’t it? (kind)Come on round here, son, I got something that’ll settle your stomach.

[Dill and Scout walk to the other side of the tree trunk to find Dolphus Raymond lying on the ground.]

Dolphus:(kind)Here, take a good sip, it’ll quieten you.

[Dolphus offers a paper sack with straws. Dill accepts it, takes a deep suck from the straws and smiles.]

Dolphus:(sinister)Hee hee!

Scout:(warning)Dill, you watch out, now…

Dill:(releases the straws, grins) Scout, it’s nothing but Coca-Cola!

[Dolphus Raymond sits up against the tree trunk.]

Dolphus:(smiles)You little folks won’t tell on me now, will you? It’d ruin my reputation if you did.

Scout:(shocked) You mean all you drink in that sack’s Coca-Cola? Just plain Coca-Cola?

Dolphus:(smiling)Yes ma’am.(matter-of-factly) That’s all I drink, most of the time.

Scout:(shocked, confused) Then you just pretend you’re half—?(flustered)I beg your pardon, sir, I didn’t mean to be—

[Dolphus Raymond chuckles]

Scout:(meekly) Why do you do like you do?

Dolphus:(smiling) Wh—oh yes, you mean why do I pretend?(matter-of-factly) Well, it’s very simple, somefolks don’t—like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with ‘em, , I don’t care if they don’t like it. I do say I don’t care if they don’t like it, right enough—but I don’t say the hell with ‘em, see?

Dill, Scout:(very confused):No sir.

Dolphus:(explaining)I try to give ‘em a reason, see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. When I come to town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink from this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey—that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does.

Scout:(protesting) That ain’t honest, Mr Raymond, making yourself out badder’n you are already.

Dolphus:(explaining) It ain’t honest but it’s mighty helpful to folks. Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s they way I want to live.

Scout:(puzzled) But why did you tell us your secret?

Dolphus:(explaining) Because you’re children and you can understand it, and because I hear that one—

[Dolphus Raymond jerks his head at Dill.]

Dolphus:--Things haven’t caught up with that one’s instinct yet. Let him get a little older. And he won’t get sick and cry. Maybe things’ll strike him as being being—not quite right, say, but he won’t cry, not when he gets a few years on him.

Dill:(bluntly) Cry about what, Mr Raymond?

Dolphus:(explaining) Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give coloured people, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too.

Scout:(quietly) Atticus says cheatin’ a coloured man is ten times worse than cheatin’ a white man. Says it’s the worse thing you can do.

Dolphus:(trying to find explanation) I don’t reckon it’s—Miss Jean Louise, you don’t know your pa’s not a run-of-the-mill man, it’ll take a few years for that to sink in,-- you haven’t seen enough of the world yet. You haven’t even seen this town, but all you gotta do is step back inside the courthouse.

[Scout looks surprised and realises that she is missing almost all of Mr Gilmer’s cross-examination.]

Scout:(anxious) C’mon, Dill, you all right now?

Dill:(relieved) Yeah. Glad to’ve metcha, Mr Raymond, and thanks for the drink, it was mighty settlin’.

{Dill and Scout run off the stage as Dolphus Raymond lies back down on the grass. Lights are turned off.}

My Learning Profile

Kinaesthetic:20
Linguistic: 19
Logical: 20
Interpersonal: 18
Intrapersonal: 18
Musical: 15
Visual/Spatial: 17
Naturalistic:15

This is my learning profile. I think that although linguistic and logical intelligence will of course help in schoolwork, visual/spatial intelligence is also important as I feel that this is my ability to, in sync with my linguistic intelligence, "replay" the lesson contents in my head after looking at the notes made in the lesson. However, the lack of naturalistic and musical intelligence may result in my visual/spatial intelligence being limited as I will have limited areas to visualize about. The interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence would also help as I work better in a team.

Test Period

As many people who read my blog know, I am a shooter and I also have a.....quite busy curriculum. Shooting involves training every available day, thankfully excluding Sundays.... Because that's the day when most competitions are. Well, I am sorry, people, I may be posting simultaneous posts on the same day because of this.
So, moving on to the topic that the title mentioned. The test period is unarguably the most busy time of the term, especially the End-Of-Year exams, which may cause symptoms of.....Mugging Syndrome, which includes endless muttering of exam topic facts, severe concentration to the teacher..... Just kidding. But this may be true for some.
Anyway, coming back to the point. My real question that I may be able to answer in this blog post is: How do we study effectively and efficiently?
For me, sitting down and completing the homework assigned by the teacher should have been enough for me to ace my exams when I was a primary school student. However, a word of warning to those who were quick learners like me(ah! sorry for boasting!), secondary school life is different, if you haven't noticed. Teachers may give few basic exercises, and it would be up to you to think of the complex problems that the teacher may bombard you with in the exam. Searching the net would always be the best option for most, but there is also the big problem of peeling yourself away from games.
I think the best solutions would be to set a time limit for your computer usage or tell your parents to watch you closely and chide you if you visit games sites. I doubt that people would want to use the second solution, so the time limit method would be best. This would cause you to work faster, in addition to concentrating on the task at hand because you know you have a certain time to complete a certain task or milestone.
This is my solution. What about yours? Write in to comment or suggest new ways to study even more effectively. Many people would benefit!

Going through the busy times of.....CNY!!!

So this post's title is self explanatory. Well..... As you know, Chinese New Year(for those of you sadly misinformed people, CNY=Chinese New Year) is always a busy time. We have celebrations in school, then we go back to our alma mater to see our teachers. Then, in the following four to five days of holiday, everyone has to rush from one end of Singapore to the other to visit relatives or friends(some say the only reason is for red packets).
So I actually want to mainly talk about the celebrations at school. As all of you know, I am a councillor and I had to help out at the celebrations. For those who sat in the Kah Kee Hall watching the various performances and having fun, coucillors went throughout the entire school to give mandarin oranges to the staff. Yes, all the staff, nobody was ignored. I think you want to ask: Now why was ALL the staff given mandarin oranges? I have the answer. For those who think that the staff don't deserve these small gifts, think again. Who helps you to wash the school? Who cleans up for you so that you have a conducive studying environment? Who makes all the experiments in the lab possible? Who helps the teachers prepare lesson notes so that the teachers are not sweaty from running to and from the printing/photocopying roo0m? They, in general, are the staff.
As we all learnt in To Kill A Mockingbird, we should not discriminate against anybody, because all humans are equal. That's why not only the teachers, the school staff deserve a little blessing and gift, in the form of these oranges. Now, would you think otherwise? Write in to comment on your take on my point of view.

Council Investiture

Hello people! I was invested into the council yesterday! Sorry for giving you this lag news because yesterday was a trying day due to having to usher the representatives from other schools on a school tour.
I think that the experience was also a good one. I felt that the speeches given by last year's High School Council Vice-President and the Guest-of-honour were very inspiring. I think it was because both of the people served in the council before in both the high school and college sections, therefore they know what and how councillors think. Both of them wanted the best for the school, just like the Council Pledge stated, we would serve with pride and with passion for the school.
Although the representatives didn't get to watch the photo montage(the computer hanged), we sand a very good council song. This year's song was "21 Guns". Its actually a tribute to a leaving council mentor, Mr Yap.
So, I am finally a councillor! I think that a councillor is a leader, a team-player and most of all, somebody who values friendship. What about you? Write in to comment.