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1. State your opinion.
2. Quote evidence from the text.
3. Explain what this evidence shows.
4. Link back to your opinion.

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-We think that the story flow was okay.
'But she had a dream which she saw karen coming in with an axe and chopping the bed into pieces. The dream was so vivid that grandma started crying.'
-At the end of the passage, it shows how much the grandma cares for the bed and her fear of karen trying to destroy her bed using an axe to tear it apart.
-I think that the story flow was quite good especially near the end as they described grandma's love for the bed and Karen's true colours, along with her hatred towards grandma and the bed.

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It was a good plot but could have been improved. The ending was great as it would make the reader think what Karen would do next. Evidence from the text shows Karen, a daughter in law finding ways to get rid of Grandma's old bed through various nasty methods that show Karen's hypocrisy and Grandma's helpless attempts to keep her bed from being dismantled as it holds sentimental value to her. This evidence shows a story how eager Karen was to get rid of the bed and how much she hate it.

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1) I think that the plot is nice.
2)'' Chopping up the bed''.
3) Shows that The Karen hates the bed.
4) Plot is nice overall.

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1)I feel that the introduction was really descriptive.
2)"Old grandmother lay on her bed , stiffening a little, her small bright eyes fixed suspiciously on the door."
3)This evidence shows the state that the grandmother is, as she seems sick, and the evidence describes the state the grandmother was in really nicely, as I could imagine the way the grandmother is lying on the bed and how she was probably feeling.
4)Thus , I feel that the introduction was really descriptive.

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1. The ending of the story was too abrupt and it feels like it can still continue.
2. The evidence is 'but she decided that that could come later'
3. The evidence shows that there will be more story but it does not continue.
4. The story still feels unfinished due to Karen waiting.

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I think the plot is very good. When the story began, I think the story should show how grandma got the bed and elaborate more about the hardship she endured. The story should talk about sai hong more because he was only featured in 2 sentences and the story should say if Karen managed to sell the bed in the end or not.

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1. the ending is very abrupt and was not elaborated enough
2. the evidence from the text just says that the grandma is sent to hospital and that her bed is a collector's item and the story ends there.
3. this evidence shows that there is not much details given and there is no continuation to the situation the characters are in.
4. therefore, as the story fails to give much details, the ending is very sudden and unexpected. the ending leaves the reader unknown about what is going to happen next and the reader does not know a lot about the story and the reader will be confused.

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i think that Karen is SOOO bad because how she acted was as if she wated the grandmother to die very fsat and an i cannot believe that Karen's view changed when her husband told her that they could sell the bed or alot of money. The story is weird because the karn is very karen and she very bad she want the grandmother to die very fast and like she acted like she cared about the grandmother but actually never cared😁😁😁🫥💀💀

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1. i feel that the part where the grandmother had the dream of karen wanting to chop the bed was interesting. in the story, it said that the grandmother was sleeping when she dreams about karen wanting to chop the bed up with an axe. i think that that part of the story was well-written as it can be inferred that the grandmother was very worried that the bed would be gone. in the story, the grandma was worried that the bed would be gone. so this part of the story fully shows that the was worried bad for the bed as it was sentimental.

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The grandma's character was too dull as she was not given any dialogues to show how the personality is in the text and displeasure towards Karen when Karen wanted to get rid of her bed.

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the ending was was alright as its shows how evil karen was even after sending her grandmother to the hospital showing she does not care about her mother in law even after telling karen not to remove it

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the story's plot was very interesting as when you first think of monster you would think of those fantasy evil monsters.But in this story the monster is actually the grandmas bed as it was old and karen thought that it was filthy so she called it the monster. The plot was very anticipating. But the overall story was quite short and bland the ending was more like a cliff hanger which i wouldnt really appreciate

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the story at the beginni g was very normal until karen over there was being evil and wanted th e grandmother ot die and sell her filthy bed for mponey, shje probabl;y didn't even care and was happy if the grandmother was dying anyways because the filthy bed cost a small fortune. The story had a plot twist and karen is being a karen. i like how they described gramdmas l0ve for the bed after 60 years ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀💀💀

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I think that Sai Khong could have been more included in karens and grandmathers conflict.Not just stand there and let things happen. The story could have included sai khongs sisters and his kids to make the story more interesting with more characters. the story would be much more interesting at the end with karen learning from this story.

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i think that the story ended too abrubtly and left us hanging,which leaves the reader more immersed in the plot and ending of the story. the reader would be more curious to find out what happens next.

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The story was interesting at the climax part as the writer left one or two parts for the readers to link together and figure out some hidden details

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i think that the writer lacks focus in the grandmother's point of view and should explain more from the grandmother's point of view to convince the reader to sympathise with the grandmother even more. the writer should also talk more about sai khong's thoughts and talk about his point of view as sai khong is the main character's husband, and the husband should be important. i feel that the writer should talk about karen's colleagues less as they are not very important.

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Sai Khong should have his own point of view as it would be much more fair for both grandma and Karen and could have more desciption of Sai Khong's character.

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1.The different points of view are well writen as it let us understand how different people see the "monster" and lets us understand if someone was kind.
2.Karen  and her friends see the bed as a monster but grandmother sees the bed as something important to her.
3.It let us see what kind of person karen really was and lets us understand what the bed mean to grandmother.
4.However, i think there should be one of karens friends who defend grandmother and stops karen from bullying her

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1. I feel that the writer was unfair  when writing about the point of view, as Karen talked most of the time.
2) The evidence in the text did not really let Sai Khong talk a lot.
3)Sai Khong was the son of the grandmother , and he should have more parts where he talks as his opinion would matter the most when planning to bring his mother to the hosipital, instead, Karen was the one talking, which made the whole story seem really boring, as out of the whole story, it seems as if only one person saying out their own opinion.
4) Thus, I feel that the point of view was unfair.

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The views that the writer explored are Karen, Sai keong and Grandmother. Karen's point of view is fully expanded on as she had changed her view on the bed, which she called monster. Sai keong's point of view has not been fleshed out and his personality is stale, having no opinion on the bed.

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1) I find that the variety of point of views provided by the writer of each individual major character introduced to the story gives the plot a structure to work on with each character having their thoughts and correlation with one another that help build the story.
2) The text has the reader viewing their reailty from multiple point of views to share the thoughts and opinions of each character and their personality and relationship with other aftermentioned characters that lead to the build up of the story.
3) This evidence allows the reader to imagine the outcome of the abrupt ending by analyzing the personality of each character by viewing the story of each and one of their point of views regarding the events during the story, leaving the reader thinking about the text they had just read and analyze the depth of the characters.
4) Hence, allowing the ending of the story have many choices depending on the thoughts and opinions of the reader regarding the text, enriching the contents of the text.

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I think that they should include more about sai keong's behavior and feelings towards karen and his mother. I feel that he should do something about karen's statement about grandma's bed. It would make the story more interesting if he was included to defend either one of them.

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The writer wrote from karens and grandmohers perspective and got alot of points oon the entire story

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the point of view of the grandma was ok. It did give enough information on why the bed was precious to her. The point of veiw of karen i think its quite a lot. she said that the bed was filthy and old but then when he found out it was some what worth she didnt want to get rid of it yet. I think sai kheong point of veiw could have had more like what were his thoughts about it?

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1:Karen has an unnecessary aggressive approach toward the bed and should add another more useful character to contrast saying she should not sell the bed off or something to match with Karen.

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I believe that the writer could have included Sai Keong's reaction and actions more as the story only shows little parts of Sai Keong making us get little exposure to his behaviour and response.

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The writer was writing based on his/her view. I think the children should be the main character. So that we could know how bad the bed condition was and the reason for why they called it a "Monster" would be more clearer.

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The writer could have used more of sai khong POV to see what he thought of the confilct happening between his wife and his mother as a middle man.

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1. I think that they could have used Sai Kheong POV more than Karen POV
2. The evidence in the text did not use Sai Keong POV
3. Sai Kheong is the son of the grandmother
4. Thus, I feel that they scould have used Sai Kheong POV

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maybe the writer did not portray the grandmother fully in detail as she may be very rude to the other characters but it was not but the story its shows she was mistreated

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I like how the writer potrays karen and made it obvious that karen was evil and not only hate grandma's bed, but she also dislikes grandma and she only cares about money because when she found out that the bed was worth a lot of money, she wanted to get rid of grandma so she could sell the bed. I also like how it shows that how karen's hate for the bed shared among her collegues.

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The potrayal of Karen's character was good as it shows how sometimes people can be so selfish and hypocritical towards others as in the text it was written that Karen wanted to get rid of Grandma's bed until she found out it was a collectors item to which she immediately sent Grandma to the hospital the moment the doctor suggusted it, under mask of being concerned for her but it is really just so grandma is out of the picture and she could sell Grandma's bed for some money. That is why Karen's character portrayal was good.

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1. I feel that the way that the writer portrayed the different characters were really nice.
3)When the writer was portraying the grandmother, the writer managed to portray the grandmother as a powerless person, that is like a chess piece being pushed around, and the writer managed to portray Karen as a really selfish , and a really cunning daughter - in- law by having a dialogue , saying that Karen wanted to sell the bed. The writer portrayed Sai Khong as a carefree son by making him follow most of Karens order and doing whatever Karen wants him to do.
4) Thus, I feel that the was that the writer portrayedthe different characters was really nice.

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1) I find that the writer's potrayal of certain characters, Karen and Sai Keong, to be quite 2 dimensional, stale and boring.
2) Karen, despite being the big bad of the text, did not receive a backstory for her actions towards her grandmother, and only wrote Karen out to be a daughter in law going out of her way to harass her mother with no reason.
3) Unlike grandmother, Karen, throughout the entirety of the story, did not receive a backstory regarding her hurtful and rude attitude towards her grandmother, leaving her role in the story as just a "villain" towards the grandmother.
4) I find that Karen's character could have a little more depth to it by providing a backstory behind her actions. Different readers can read her backstory and decide whether to sympathise with her or not.

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The writer could have portrayed more of grandmothers side. As she had portrayed a lot of karen which i think is maybe a bit unfair as we didnt get to see much of grandmothers side so we wont know whos right or wrong. As so far it seems like the writter has portrayed karen as a evil and selfish woman. But the grandma is innocent.The writer could have portrayed a little more on grandmas children. As im sure at least one of grandma children cares for her and what they would do when karen wanted to get rid of grandmas bed.

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I think the writer should elaborate on Sai Kheong as he is the wife of grandma so his character should have been developed more and I like how the writer wrote about how karen is very evil as she cares more about the price of the bed than the grandmother

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1.the write portrayed the people as completely different people with their own thoughts and feelings.
2.the write portray Sai Keong by not letting him have a say in the things happening to his mother or to his house.
3.The portrayed Sai Keong like a carefree man as he did not really care about the things at home for what was happening to his mother.
4.Thus i feel that Sai Keong was portrayed as carefree man.

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2.Karen trys to kick grandmothers bed out of the house and hopes she dies early
3.Karen was portrayed as a controling person and dislike her mother in law.Karen would bully grandmother and make grandmother scared of her
4. Thus karen was portrayed as controling and a person the bullys others.

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i think the writer potryed karen too evil as it might also be for karens children for a better life and wellfare.I also think that the children should mentioned in the story so that we can understand more about the story

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The portrayal of Karen should have been expanded more as it is basically a first-person view. The writer did not expand on what she has done to the grandmother or some of the bad habits that she may have which may affect how the readers think about her either favorably or not.

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i feel that the way that karen was portrayed is too vicious. the reason why karen wanted to get rid of the old bed was because there was bugs and filth on the bed and she was worried for her children living in the house. as said in the story, she was worried that the grandmother and her children would fall sick due to the poor sanitation of the bed. she therefore wants to get rid of the bed. but she is portrayed in the story in a way that she was actually a bad character. and the dream the grandma made also infers that karen was also a bad person although she was just worried. the story should have portrayed karen as a worried mother instead on emphasising that she does not like that the grandmother wants to keep the bed therefore making her look like she is the villian of the story

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the writer portrayed karen as an evil character as karen was often complaining and voicing out about the nasty bed, on the other hand, the grandmother was portrayed as a helpless victim as the grandmothers opinions were not acknowledged as she was unable to speak

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she portrayed karen as the villain of the story and the grandmother as the victim .Bullying the elder. The Writer portrayed her collegues as her acquaintances of the discrimination of her mather in law and her bed.

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1. i think the different the writer's portrayal of the different characters was abit boring because the personality each character had was limited.
2. Karen's personality was focused to be an evil daughter in law but the writer didnt show if she would have a character development in the future
3. the evidence shows that the writer should try to implot more personalities for each character.
4. hence i think the story is abit boring

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The writer's use of vivid language was able to let readers be more curious about what does this vivid language means and what's happening in the text.
The vivid language was able to let readers feel how the characters really felt in the text .e.g "the old grandma's head drop to oneside as she continue to moan to herself΅shows how upset she is.

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Karen is written to be a greedy person and is disrespectful towards Grandmother.

Sai Khong is neutral in the story and has no opinions about anything.

Grandmother gone through a lot and does not want her bed to be destroyed.

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1.The writer uses a vastly expanded vocabulary to further explain what they feel specifically instead of simply saying what they feel.
2.For example: instead of using "his mind was in a different place", they used "Mentally, he was back on the golf course, joking with his club buddies."
3.This shows that Sai Keong does not care about the drama at home.His mind is filled with golf showing that he goes there regularly.Probably to destress and get his mind off things at home.
4.Thus, the writer uses a vastly expanded vocabulary to further explain what the characters feel.

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The writer uses vivid language such as, 'Old grandmother lay on her bed, stiffening a little, her small bright eyes fixed on suspiciously on the door'
'Stiffening a little' in this sentence shows the slight apprehension that grandmother had when she woke up as she dislikes her family as they constantly disturb her.
'Small bright eyes fixed suspiciously on the door' It shows the grandmother checking for the family members who disturb her.

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1) I feel that the writer did not really use vivid laguage.
2) Out of the whold entire plot most of the sentences were dialogues.
3) The dialogues were mostly just Karen complaining about how smelly grandmothers bed was and how if was affecting their health, adn dialogues of grandmother trying to plead Karen and Sai Khong to not bring her to the hospital and destroy her bed.
4) Thus , I feel that the writer did not really use vivid language.

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There was no part of the text that was descriptive as it was juz explaining about how Karen was trying to get rid of grandmother's bed.

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paragraph 13. It has vivid language as it expresses the emotions (despair) of Karen on what shw thinks of the bed. She said that the bed was ugly, had weird carvings, full of bugs and vermin. She even nicknamed in the monster.

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i Felt like she could expan her vocabulary with stronger words.

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The story was not vivid it was quite boring not much information was added either. There wasnt any good descriptive words and that would not catch any attention.

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The vivid language makes me feel like I am in the story as it is happening and I can imagine the situation.However, the ending is bad and should have more explanation, but overall the body is interesting. ''Karen warmed to the theme, glad to show her husband that it was really concern for his aged mother that she was making so much noise about the old, rickety, bug-infested bed.'' is an example of such vivid words.

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1. i feel that the writer could use more vivid language
2. the writer does not use a lot of descriptive words in the text and uses the same words. for example, the words "old grandmother" is repeated many times throughout the story. the only descriptive words that the writer used were to describe the colours of the children's rooms.
3. the evidence shows that the writer does not bring out the character's feelings enough by not using enough vivid language, which makes the entire text feel boring and a bit lifeless, the focus on karen is too much, and the description of karen is not very vivid too.
4. using more vivid language would heavily benefit the feelings emanated by the text and the characters.

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It doesnt really capture my attention on the story as the story is mostly about the bed being thrown and kaen being mean to the grandmother

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The writer did uses vivid languages usually related to the Old-grandmother's bed to describe how disgusting and unhygienic it was. For example, "That bed! Goodness, it takes up half this room - it's the ugliest thing I have ever seen, all weird carvings and full of bugs and vermin! I call it the Monster." I think this is pretty good so that the reader could know why is it disgusting and unhygienic. It makes readers feel some illness just using the vivid languages.

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1. i think that in this story the writer did not put enough vocabulary as the mere words to describe the main thing which was the "monster" in this story which is grandmothers bed the only words used filthy and dirty. Which we find abit boring as the writer kept focusing on how Karen, the evil daughter in law couldn't stop complaining about the "monster" and kept trying to get rid of it.

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The writer uses a wide range of vocabulary to explain further what they actually feel instead of stating what they feel.
For example, experience feeling of gratification, they used experience to explain further what they actually feel.
Thus, I think that the writer using a wide range of vocabulary

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I think that this story is quite meaningful. I would recommend this story as it tells us that some people don't truly care about a certain person or people. There are many selfish people in this world and the title 'monster' shows that in different perspectives, anyone could be the 'monster' rather than karen, the bed, or grandma.

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I feel that the key message is meaningful. We must be kind to our elders and form good relationships with them to avoid conflict.

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The theme of the story is greed as it shows how Karen chose money over taking care of her grandmother.I find this message meaningful because this shows the state of society.I would also recommend this book to children

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The key messsage could be to treat seniors with more respect but the key message  was portrayed very vauged. The key message was not obvious. It wasnt much meaningful as the key messgae was vague and confusing?

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conflicts between the older generation and the newer generation, i find the message meaningful because it shows how the opinions of different generations and i dont really recommend because i feel like they could have added more details

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I feel like the main message is arguments between the young and old.
I feel like that as the whole story is about the relationship between karen and grandmother and the generation gap which causes them to argue.
To elaborate on the previous point, the two have grown in two time periods with access to different things hence a different upbringing.

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I find the key message meaningful because it is teaching us not to be rude to the elderly and not be selfish.

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I find the key message meaningful. Because it is something happen in the nowadays society. When I was in Malaysia, there was an auntie who was my Grandmother's neighbour. Her house condition was disgusting and unhygenic. Some of the people find she is disgusting. But on the other hand, there is people trying to help her which is good. Thus, this is a good story to read because the bed is not a real Monster but the people whoever found the Old-grandmother's bed is disgusting is Monster.

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Katherine Lim is trying to tell us what others find meaningful to them may not be meeanningful to us. It shows that we may not understand other people's views and treat it like nothing. For example, my grandmother loves this necklace very much and it has a lot of value to us. But to us it may just be an average necklace that can just be tossed out.

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the key message shows that the grandmother wanted to keep the bed as it reminds her of all the memory but karen does not understand her and wanted to throw it away

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i think the story is trying to tell us about conflicts betwenn te grandmother and karen.I think it is meaningful as it teaches us not to be greedy,i reccommend it

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Yes, I find that the key message was meaningful, as it teaches to not only look at the cover of someone as they may be acting , and they might betray you after they get what they want.

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1. no, i do not think the key message of the text meaningful as there was not really a key message in the text.
2. the writer does not elaborate and give enough details about the main point of what is happening to karen, or more about what the grandmother thinks. it is only constantly repeating that the grandmother does not want her bed removed. it also does not explain karen's actions while explaining grandmother's backstory but not telling a lot about grandmother's opinions and thoughts.
3. this evidence shows that there is insufficient reasons and details to come up with a key message or point that the text is trying to say or come up with, therefore, i find that it is not very meaningful.

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I think the key message was meaningful, which was " we need to learn to understand the old and the young, both do things differently due to the time they lived in.But we must learn to live together." it showed us that the old might have a different thinking than the young but they must try to understand each other.

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No as the key message was not really that obvious and even if it was, Karen did not even learn anything and change in the end. If the key message was to always care for your elders, nobody in the story actually did it. Karen was just trying to get rid of her mother in law's bed and Sai Khong did not do anything for his mother except send her to the hospital.

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I do find the key message meaningful as the text was about other families which could be relevant to me as it told me that we need to respect our elderly.

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Yes I did. This story is a very good example. We must treat our elders with care and respect. Book is also recommendable to younger audience and even adults who are interested.

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I find that the key message is to talk it out instead of silently holding grudges against each other, which I find very meaningful as it shows how exactly you can solve problems together.

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i think this story is helping to inform many mistreats of different people in certain families, though the plot is abit boring but the key message is quite thoughtful.

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i think this story isabout the generation gap beteen the grandmother and karen and about the relationship.

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The key message is meaningful as it shows the generational conflicts regarding different sets of values in the Chinese Singaporean community as the grandma treasures the heirloom while the younger generation favor modern, western aesthetics and lifestyle.

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I found the key message of the story a meaningful one. The "Monster" in the story was used to refer Grandmother's bed due to Karen's description of it. However, after reading the story, many readers may find that the real monster in the story is Karen due to her actions leading up to the ending of the story.

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I find the key message meaningful as it helps better understand both old and young as they do things differently and we should treat the old with respect

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i feel that thee key message is rather meaningful and it is food for thought in the story, like the title of the story "monster". it is not specifically directed to anything. it could be talking about the bed being the "monster" like how karen calls it "monster". but it could also be describing karen for wanting to get rid of the story. however, she was only caring for the grandmother and her child, which is the total opposite of a monster which is normally depicted as an apathetic person. but, she also did not empathise with the grandmother and feeling that it is a sentimental memory and feeling that it is useless and waste of space . but it could also be describing the sentimential memory between the grandmother and the bed. the sentimental relationship did not make grandmother realise that the bed actually has poor sanitation and makes her want to even die on the bed. making the relationship between them bad as it makes the grandma oblivious of the dangers the bed could possibly bring. however, the monster could also be sai keong, the son. in the story, he is depicted as a apathetic and careless son that does not care about anything that occurs in the family and only cares about his happy moments. making him also the apathetic monster. in my view, all the characters are monsters themselves. they are each depicted as a different monsters throughout the story. the title"monster" is used to describe all the characters. therefore making the story very interesting to read if one was to fully read and understand and diving deep into this story that reflects families in this period. where even it is unnoticed, everyone is still a monster

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i think that the key message is meaningful. we must be kind to our elders and form good relationships with them to avoid conflict