ACE Blog Post 2

Task A:

Task B:

The reason why I chose the background of a quiet room with only a table inside the room is because I wanted to give readers the impression that the room was a conducive learning environment for John. The readers would go on to think that John is a hardworking and obedient student who studies hard for his exam, because they would think that John had been studying in the room during the time his mother was out. By characterizing John as a hardworking student, I made a twist in the 3rd picture to show that John actually had not been studying, but in fact he was playing computer games. The readers would be surprised to find out that John was actually such a lazy student who cannot be bothered to study for his exams. His mother was not aware that John did not study and in the 1st picture, she even told John that she would buy him a new laptop if he does well in his exam. This just goes to show how little his mother interacts with him. She thought that John was studying hard and wanted to reward him if he did well in his exam. Actually, John has changed. Instead of his old hardworking self, he is now addicted to computer games. The 3rd picture shows burning the midnight oil to do some last minute preparation for his exam the next day.

The last picture was in the classroom, when the class was having their end-of-year Language Arts test. As John had slept so late last night, he was too tired to do his exam paper and fell asleep on the his desk. The moral of the story is that we should not cheat others, as by cheating others, we are actually also cheating ourselves. The result of John cheating his mother is that he had to stay up late into the night to complete his revision for his exam the next day and in the end, he was too tired to even do the exam paper.