What is the most important element in your life?
After reading the Westing Game, I had lots of thoughts about complicated characters. Now I will share some opinions.
The first one was wisdom. Samuel Westing was a man of wisdom. During the game, he cunningly separated the 16 heirs into 8 groups and made all the people learn the importance of the friendship, love, care. So the game promoted all the elements that were going to be needed.
The second one was love and care. There were some examples about love, such as Turtle and Flora. Turtle had nearly no love from her mother, and Flora was a woman who needed a child’s love because her daughter passed away. The game satisfied both of them. Another example is Sydelle. In the book, we knew that she was a woman who wanted attention and care. So she did some bizarre things,such as pretending to limp, writing her notebook in Polish and wearing weird clothes. She thought it would be useful to get the attentions by these ways. The third example was Otis and Crow. Otis was a delivery boy whose parent was unknown.So he might need more care. Crow was the ex-wife of Sandy (actually Westing),and a divorce heavily struck her. She strongly needed lots of loves to cure her. In the end, Otis and Crow gave strong love to each other by marrying. The fourth example was Chris and Denton. Chris was a boy who is sick and couldn’t speak very clearly. He needed care from the doctor Denton. Denton also needed the love from the patient, so it was perfect grouping that could make them together.
The third one was doing what you want, living freely. Angela was a representative.The previous chapters of the book discovered that Angela was under the controlof her mother. She will do anything for her. Angela’s life was like in prison,she had completely no freedom at all! Even the clothes that are going to be worn were Grace’s choice. However, she then fought bravely for the free time and doing what she wanted, she finally succeeded in being a doctor too! The final option was made by her. She ultimately found herself. Another example was Jake and Mrs. Hoo. Jake had nearly no right in his family, he was a feet doctor and looked after people’s feet. It wasn’t his own choice, and he didn’t want to do it. In the end, Jake found out what was his real life and favourite job. Mrs. Hoo was also a person who wasn’t important in the family. She was under the control of James, so she couldn’t make her way back to China. She’s clothes was the selection of James. Finally she went back to China and lived freely.
The fourth one was friendship. During the game, Sandy and Turtle actually became friends and helped each other, like playing chess and doing either of them a favor.The game also gave Crow and Otis friendship. It let them cooperate and care about each other. The game even provided the chance of marriage and found out what friendship could make in the end. The group of Grace and James had a same point, they all like controlling others. The game offered the opportunity to change into new habits and get friendship. So they found another same habit,making money. Therefore Grace changed from controlling people into having a new restaurant. James changed his bad temper and started financial work. What a huge change!
Overall, the Westing Game was a brilliant book which told the real meanings of wisdom, love, care, living freely and friendship. In realistic world, we could also use these elements. Read more and learn more.
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