Q1. What is the irony in the story?
Ans: The irony is that the taximan picks up young girls and their foreign boyfriends in his taxi to make more money, his daughter also hangs out with foreign men for money.
Q2. What are the themes raised in the story?
Ans: The themes raised are the behavior of young people nowadays and what does the taximan do to earn more money at night.
Q3. How realistic is this story?
Ans: I do not think this story is very realistic as most young people teenagers I see would not make themselves so 'cheap' and I do not see many young people when I go out at night with my parents.
Q4. What do you think of the taximan? Do you feel sympathy for him?
Ans: I think the taximan is showing bad example for young people and especially his daughter for giving rides to those young people and their boyfreinds. I do not feel sympathy for him as, if he really wanted to help the young people, he should not give them rides but lecture them.
Q5. Do you agree with his lamenting?
Ans: Yes, because if most teenagers behave badly and do not go to school like they are supposed to , Singapore would have a bad government in the future generations and would result in the decline of our country.
Q6. What about the other characters in the story? Do you feel sympathy for them?
Ans: I sympathise with the teacher if she has a child because she did not know the tricks that teenagers could be up to nowadays if left on their own too much.
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Hi Benji! Do continue to update your blog with insightful posts (: Regarding this particular post- I am impressed with your response to Qn.4! Still, do think over your responses to the first few questions again. Especially the irony ( a conflict between expectations and reality) and the theme in the story. Clue: What does the taximan feel toward the teenagers' actions? How does he deal with the teenagers in real life?
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