Anti-social Sheila’s Characteristics before Learning with Torey Hayden
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Sheila. Sheila, just a little girl who never got affection from her parents felt that Torey did something good to her. She felt very happy to have a teacher like
Torey. She tried to make Sheila to be a better child. Torey’s approach made Sheila told anything about her father to her nicely.
“How come you do this?” “Do what?”
“Be nice to me?” I looked at her in disbelief. “Because I like you.”
“Why? I be a crazy kid; I hurt your fishes. Why do you be nice to me? p. 87.
After all finished, Sheila took her coat hook and ready to go home. Sheila behaved nicely. She smiled at Torey and said good bye to her politely. “Bye,
teacher” p. 90. According to Murphy 1972, personal traits of character can be seen
through his or her speech. Sheila spoke nicely and politely to Torey during the brushed time. Sheila also said good bye to Torey when she was going to go home.
Sheila’s sadistic behaviors were kidnapping and almost killing a three- year-old boy, burning the migrant camp where she lived, smearing feces in the
restroom of a bus station, and plucking the eyes out of all the goldfish with a pencil. Since Sheila became a polite little girl, she never did the sadistic behavior.
Sheila’s character changed into polite behavior which were speaking nicely and politely to Torey during the brushed time and saying good bye to Torey when
Sheila was going home.
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