This time round would be about this passage on THE LONER,:D

THE LONER!
Assignment:D
1(a) what are your impressions of the boy , as well as of the children in the poem?
Support your answer with relevant lines from the poem.
Requires 2 paragraph
-1 boy
-1 children
In TEQA format.

He is a boy who is left alone and is thus called “The Loner”. He is believed to be rather anti-social or probably autistic as he doesn’t interact with others. “He leans against the playground wall” actually shows that he is fearful of something and is being defensive. The word wall is said to be his friend that could probably give him company, support and most importantly security. He was too lonely that he felt extremely bored to the extend of doing meaningless activity and to a point of not feeling the pain. The phrase “never plays” shows that he has been to the playground often but had never played. He longs to play and is envious of the children, like him, playing and enjoying himself while he is just leaning against the playground wall feeling bored, dull and gloomy.I think that he has always wanted to join in with them to play, not to be left alone every time but probably lack of courage. It has always been the same group of people playing there every time, enjoying themselves but as well as him being left alone almost every time. He could probably have some disability or illness and that might just be the reason why he has always been left alone. Although it has been in this case for probably a rather long time, “neither he nor we will yield”. It could most likely be that they will not take out the first step that could change everything. The people there would just resume their stuffs as usual and would most likely not to make an effort to initiate having a conversation with him, letting him join in the clique and even probably take him as an invisible person, take him as someone that didn’t exist, wasn’t there leaning against the playground wall.

“Shouting, laughter, song” has always filled the playground, the voices of the children. The playground was always “quick with life” which shows that it had always be lively and energetic there. The little children “pass him” and has “never speak” to him. This shows us that he is always alone even when people walk pass him, they do not interact among themselves at all even though they are of the same, just children. There would definitely be times when they quarreled and words that were “as sharp as knife” but it doesn’t take long before the arguments stop and reconcile again. The children never tried interacting with him and bringing him into the joy which the entire group of children in the playground were having. I think if they had make an effort, the boy would definitely be in with them enjoying his childhood just like any other children.

But, in this certain day, he’s not at the playground anymore. “ Someone said he’d moved away, to another school and place”. But somehow, I felt that he had been gone, away from this world, not being able to enjoy what he had deserved to have. If he had really been gone, it could probably be like what I mentioned, probably some illness that had taken him away from this world. I hope that the children had not left him alone every time, leaving him left out every time, leaving him to be “the loner” alone, without any company. That “someone” wrote “ watch this space” on the way he had been leaning on and I believed that it should be his family members that understand that he had always been so lonely but could do almost nothing to help.