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she's protrayed as a experienced woman in this field.
i think like becos she is/was a mental patient, she could relate to the others and "help" them feel better

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Emily Gan is portrayed as a source of hope that brings out the best of others  . From the book ,  “They are jealous because im special” shows how ahe tried ‘brainwashing’ Saloma into thinking positively about herself and is to never bring herself down just because everyone thinks that she is ‘worthless’ & ‘different’ . And it should not affect her on how society perceives her . Therefore , this shows how she brings the best of others .

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She is portrayed as a very nice person who helps the mental patients in the halfway house and is strong ." God spoke to me... He said.... I will be the leader. And I will bring peace ... And harmony .. I will make them pure" which shows that Emily believes that she is capable of making thing right and is capable of helping others.

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Emily Gan is portrayed as someone who is somewhat acting like a “motherly” figure to the Woodbridge patients as she can be seen motivating them and helping them be happy and such “Saloma let me tell you anytime ah anytime at all you think someone is saying bad things about you be strong tell yourself they are jealous because I am special can you say that?” This shows that Emily Gan comforted Saloma after the told her her struggles in life and thought her how to flip something negative into somEthing positiVE and motivating her to ignore all the haters :)

(Is this correct lol )

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emily gan is portrayed as a very optimistic mentally ill patient who think that she is doing good for others by being their so called doctor, but despite her still being like the rest, she is actually helping the others get better with her bubbly personality, and her thinking highly of herself. 'i am actually a gynaelogist doctor,' as well as ' i actually delivered lee hsien loong ' suggest that she is someone who is not affected by her mental illness at all

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She potrays herself as a very good doctor,as seen from page 54. From page 56," Emily: Very good, Saloma. You know,that is a very nice name. I think the next baby I deliver I will name-[gasp] I told you my secret." Which shows she might specialise in obstetrics. Throughout the play, she is better than other doctors, instead of dismissing the patients, she guides them.
~Pearlyn

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She represents the people who "use" their heart and not only their brains. Emily reminds Vinod to use his heart and not only his mind as this society is leaning towards apathy . The quote " Data. Dayadhvam. Damyata" reminds not only Vinod but the audience also who represent the society to give , sympathise and control and not only go after materialistic things , but also spend some time to help others which brings everyone pure joy .

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Emily treats saloma very patiently and doesn’t lose confidence in her however other people in society who don’t even know Saloma have already given up on her and doesn’t even care or want her to get better. Emily treats Vinod as someone who is like her sidekick ish in terms of helping Saloma with her condition as she feels he has already helped her alot  and is thankful for him.But society just tests him as nothing and doesn’t even really care about him

(I think wrong idk) (Justin)

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i think that emily represents hope, as when saloma was not having the right mindset about herself and the people viewing and treating her, it was emily who helped her build a stronger mindset by teaching her two phrases 'they are jealous because i am special' and 'i am strong, nothing cab destroy me' .
similarly, emily helped other patients too like 'nirmala' and helped them to somehoe fit better in society, hence this shows the sense of hope she gives others

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I think Emily represents the people who breaks stereotypes as even though she is a mental patient, she is calm and kind, unlike stereotypical mental patients.

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Emily is represented as someone who suffers from mental illness but forced herself to fit in with society and being ‘normal’ . She acted like everything is fine and all but actually, she was suffering from the inside and nobody knows and nobody bothers to check up on her . But she is always there to help others without expecting anything in return . She acted more like a real doctor than a real doctor is . She gave support and reassurance that the people with mental illness needed compared to how society does . Because she understands the real pain and knows exactly what they need .

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Emily Gan represents someone in society that is having. challenges herself  but ignores her own problems and helps others before helping herself which deproves her condition but improves other people condition so she is shown as someone who helps others before even helping herself

Correct? (Justin)

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Emily treats Saloma gently while she treats Vinod quite harshly. Emily guided Saloma and teaches her how to believe in herself while she did the same for Vinod and taught him how to use his heart, but she slapped him.

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Her death symbolises what people in society are doing to people who are mentally ill as with them just ignoring the mental patients, society is giving them more motivation to end their lives and completely giveup hope on themselves

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She died by shoving a hanger into herself. This symbolises how society ostracizes deviant people even though they behave like normal people, causing these people to feel very upset, possibly go mad and then kill themselves.

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Emily is potrayed as a bold girl. The scene where she tells Saloma to tell herself" They're jealous because I'm special" suggests that Emily is confident of herself such that she can accept herself the way she is.

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emily treated vinod with the a more harshfully impactful manner. As vinod is someone who likes to not opem his heart and often usrs his intellegence to get out of anything. before emily died, she went to visit vinod in his dreams and said 'you cannot use your mind to get yourself out of everything !! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ?!! where is your heart ? where ?!! GOOD ! now use it before you forget how.' this shows the approach emily uses on vinod to get to his senses.
on the other hand, emily views saloma's mind as 'pure' and sees her differently from vinod. she was much more friendly yet still convincing on saloma. 'saloma, let me tell you, anytime ah, anytime at all you think someone is saying bad things about you, be strong. tell yourself, "huh!! they are jealous because i am special." ' this shows that emily is being very calm with saloma as she is not as hard to get through than vinod

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Emily treated Vinod more forcefully. She kept trying to get Vinod to snap out of it . She is always telling him “ You cannot use your mind to get yourself out of everything!! ....” (pg103 , line 6 onwards) Shows how she was forcefully telling Vinod how he had to accept things and to listen to his heart at times and to never use his mind to get out of everything and when things doesn’t go his way , he shouldn’t shut himself out from the outside world . For Saloma , she treated her with so much care . She approached her with so much care and is always reassuring her and gave her so much comfort . “ Anytime at all you think someone is saying bad things about you , be strong”. She cares for her so much and was so careful with her and gives her reassurance on how she shouldn’t listen or know about how society perceives her and she should be strong .

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emily is potrayed as very motherly , she is also very delusional as she told people she is 36 years old and she delivered our prime minster , when in actual fact she is 17 years old and definitely did not deliver our prime minster . she seems like a better doctor than the actual doctors actually are , she helped Saloma alot and she seems to like emily alot

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emily is the creative mind of society . society now a days seem to only use their logical mind and less of their creative mind , emily reminds us to not be so cold and serious , and should let out their inner child more , be creative  and be free

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She represents people who listen to themselves and not blindly follow others

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she represents the people who do not believe that they are mentally ill but more of special in a way where society would be jealous to the point where they start bullying or excluding them.

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Emily treats Vinod harshly while she treats Saloma gently. Emily slapped Vinod while she tried to make Saloma feel proud of herself and not to feel insecure

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Emily died saying that god called her instead of plainly sating that she wants to commit suicide. This represents the people who can't really be themselves in this society and always have to put on a fake smile whereby inside , they are in deperate help.

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emily treated saloma very motherly, she was so persistent in helping saloma feel special and not give up with herself. however with vinod, she was abit frustrated with him as he kept using his head to question her.

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Her death symbolises the impact mental patients have because of the way society treats them. It also symbolises how much society makes mental patients hate life such that they decide to die

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emily was a little harsh towards vinod in terms of tone , and was a little more gentle and angelic towards saloma , but overall gave both good advice and was very kind to them

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Haresh Sharma, the playwright, uses Vinod's death to critique the society that it tortures mental patients . Not only that, but Haresh Sharma also uses how Saloma not being able to get a job to show how this society has limited spaces and opportunities for those " off-centre" people. By not having a curtain call at the end , it leaves the audience with guilt. Especially since Saloma asks the audience leave by saying " you  are very busy people  " , " all finish ready can go back home now" which leaves the audience the guilt of being so immersed in their own lives and not even spending a second to even help those in need .  And the fact how Haresh Sharma decides to form Vinod into a deprving character towards the end shows how mental patients are vulnerable to the society's thoughts.

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The playwright is tryna critique how society is treating people who have mental conditions he does it as with Emily and Vinod committing suicide it shows that society is not killing the mental patients but instead their actions or behaviour towards them is what’s making the mental patients wanna kill them selves

(Think it’s wrong just gonna wing it) (Justin)

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How society treats deviance and deviant people. He does it effectively by having Vinod and Saloma ask questions to the audience and them questioning social norms nowadays thus making the audience ponder and question everything.

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She died as she was underaged pregnant and had a mental disorder. I think that maybe she thought is the baby was born there was going to be defects and the baby might have a disorder too. Seeing her baby struggling and not being able to be normal as well as not knowing how to cope, hence maybe that is why she commited suicide.
as when emily was alive, she was very hopeful and a bubbly person towards the other mentally ill patients and the other patients even viewed her if someone of a motherly figure . when that is gone, all the positivity, hope and someone who seems normal and treats other patients greatly goes along with that death

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She died as she was pregnant 🤰🏻 and being underage 🔞 . The stress she must have felt must be extremely overwhelming and the stress she must have being in Woodbridge and being pregnant. She must have thought that being a mental patient and having a child would cause harm to the baby 👶🏻 . If society isn’t accepting to people with mental patients, it might be worse for a child that has a parent eho suffers from mental patient . Therefore, to escape from all the mess that she and her child will face in the future , she chose to end her life by committing suicide .

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The playwright is trying to critique how mental patients are treated in society. He did it effectively through making Vinod and Saloma asking questions to the audience

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her death symbolises the few teens who had underage pregnancy with a mental illness and the society thought of them as defiance and outcasted them. With no one willing to help them, they feel like they have no choice but to commit suicide

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He is trying to make society=audience , to feel extremely guilty . By making Emily die , it made people realise that just because of this ‘simple and harmless ‘ words that they say in split seconds and throw to people with mental illness could deeply affect them. The words that we say , without thinking twice could cause someone’s live to end . Words could be extremely harmful and not only one live will be at stake but for Emily , it is TWO . If society could be more accepting, no one’s live will end . Probably, Emily would not have thought of suicide at all and she would be happy with her baby .

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i think that the playwright is trying to critique that not all mentally ill patients are the same. Not all takes it as a negative way, not all is suicidal about it, most of them dont mean the things they do or say, definitely all of them deserves a proper and welcoming spot in society without being viewrd wierdly different and all of them deserves to feel loved and not hated, even for the people they dont know.
the characters introduced are all of different backgrounds, stories and characteristics. vinod, the extrovert who is ready to mingle around with anyone, anywhere and anyyime, but is like a bomb that can blow up when he gets unstable. saloma, the introvert who doesnt want anything to do with the society but soon changed and whats to be out in the real world. Emily, the optimistic one who wants to bring out the best of others but forgets about her own. these are different types of mentally ill patients and there of course are more but this might be what the playwright is trying to critique in society