with her jobs, Clare always works hard to manage them. Handling out several jobs at a time, Clare always deals with them professionally and punctually.
6. Idealistic
Clare is idealistic. It can be seen from her thoughts. She has ideals of a happy life and tries to achieve it no matter how hard it will be. She thinks if she
has a magic wand, she will make all the unhappy children in the world happy. It shows how Clare really wishes happiness in life.
I thought how, if I could have a magic wand, I would make all the unhappy children in the world happy. All my life I had wanted someone to
care for me. Children have the right to be happy… Children should have presents twice a year and new clothes once a month, I decided. An
absolute necessity is that every child should have a dry bed, and parents who beat their children should get what’s coming to them. No parent has
the right to abuse their children. I had always wanted to experience happiness. Not day-in-and-day-out happiness, but just every-now-and-then
happiness Briscoe 301. Since in her childhood Clare always sleeps in a wet bed for her pissing,
she dreams of having a nice bed. Clare wishes that one day when she is grown up she will have a nice bed, a four poster with curtains, with a nice soft mattress that
will never get wet no matter what. She wishes that when she has an accident, the wet would be magicked away and there is no sound of alarm. Then she also
dreams of having two supersoft pillows and a huge duvet to wrap around her body. At last, a pink cotton duvet case and matching pillowcases with embroidery
round the edges, or possibly one pretty bow in each corner, she thinks Briscoe 150. As her bed is awful, Clare puts her wish of having a nice one into a dream.
Clare has ideals of the bed she wants to posses.
When she is about seven, approaching eight, Clare loves to dream of nice things. She thinks that it will be nice if someone buys her a new dress, a new pair
of shoes, a pink or silver hair clip, and a nice cardigan. She likes to dream all the things she never gets from her mother. Her dreams are the ideals she wants to
achieve in life. When I was about seven, approaching eight, I used to think how nice it
would be if, once in a while, someone bought me a new dress. … A new pair of shoes would be lovely, too. If they had only been worn for a couple
of weeks, I would not mind, but they had to be my size. Not tight. I fancied a smell heel, not too high – I didn’t want to fall and break my
neck. Lace-ups were okay, but they had to be pretty with a black ribbon tied in a bow. To finish off, I pictured a hair clip, pink or silver, and a nice
cardigan to protect my arms Briscoe 47-48. When Clare is away from school since she has a face infection, she begins
to watch a courtroom drama called Crown Court at One to fill her spare time. She then gets attracted to the characters in the drama. Clare makes her mind up that
she will become a barrister when she grows up. She holds on a dream of becoming a barrister. She intends to pursue her dream and put her ideal into
reality. I decided that I wanted to be a barrister in court in a wig and gown. Every
day a new incident, a new defendant to represent, a new trial. It was so exciting. I wanted to dress up there and then. Both the men and the women
wore white tabs round their necks. The women wore them over a beautiful white collarette with lace over the high neckband; the men wore them over
high wing collars as if they were in a period drama. It was clear that I would become a barrister just like the characters. I’d find out all about it
when I went back to school Briscoe 239.
It can be said that Clare is idealistic. She has ideals of life she wishes to realize. We can notice it from her thoughts. She has so many dreams in her life;
the things that Clare wants to get. Her dreams somehow keep her to survive in
life. The dreams she has motivate Clare to struggle in life, even in the most dreadful situation she has to face.
In conclusion, Clare is a sort of person who is brave, smart, confident, tough, hardworking and idealistic. Apart of her physical appearance, Clare is a
brave person. She has the courage to fight the injustice happening throughout her life. Clare is smart in dealing with people and situations. She knows exactly how
to react and what to do towards terrible conditions that she has to face in life. Clare is confident in stating her opinion and her ability. Besides, she also believes
in herself that she can do and reach what she dreams. She is a hard worker as well. Although she faces difficulties in handling her jobs, she works hard to handle and
to cope with them. Clare is tough in facing difficulties in life. She never gives up in living her life, even in the worst situation ever. Clare also has so many dreams
in life to hold on and to achieve. Her dreams somehow keep her struggling in her awful life. Based on the analysis, it is obvious that Clare is a sort of person who
really wants to struggle for life, to reach her dreams, and to change her life into better.
B. Clare’s Struggle for a Better Life
