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prioritises "mother's" happiness over their financial position

loses temper easily

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mean and manipulative

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abusive,bossy,short-tempered,entitled

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manipulative and self centered

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abusive, short tempered, controlling

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A horrible person, though he care for his wife, but he is an absolute menace to his son, and taking care of a child is both parents responsibility. If not, why have a child in the first place?

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abusive, domineering

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He is a very violent person and short-tempered person. He is also abusive.

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Hes very nonchalant and loving to his wife, maybe trying to bride her to forgive him after owing money to loansharks again.

but when he looses his temper he doesn't think properly, I think that he prioritizes what he wants more than what mother and boon wants👿

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He runs away when the going is tough [coward]

Cares about mother [loving husband]

Can't keep himself in check [maybe a little unstable]

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He's really delusional and thinks that the he can provide alot of materialistic things like money to young mother, when in reality his head is in the clouds.

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surprising, disturbing

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romantic and caring

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Young Father seems to gentlemanly and suave. He’s convincing with his words and charms Young Mother easily. This makes him very likeable at first. However, when we see a ‘darker’ side of him being potentially a gambling addict or a sneaky/suspicious husband who does not reveal all his dealings to his wife, we start to feel he’s disrespectful and untrustworthy.

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as a child he talked back to his father and was stubborn but as he got older he stopped doing it so much and listened a bit more

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Child - naïve [spray paint vs crayon with father], playful, childish

Adult - reserved, a little awkward [going off of movie], haunted/regretful [past]

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he is not a caring father

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young : carefree, busybody

adult : paranoid, scarred

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child-> kaypoh

adult-> traumatized

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as a child, boon is quite daring but as an adult boon is more reserved

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As a child, Boon seems curious to ask questions and interact. He talks to his father almost as an equal advising/counselling him about the consequences of his actions. This suggests Boon is very confident. However, as an adult, he seems quite resigned to a ‘loser destiny’ that he’s never going to be better than average and all he can do is dream. He is condescending to Mother at times and at others, he seems to cower in fear at her words. He doesn’t seem to see himself on level playing field with her for some reason. It could be deep down he feels a great sense of gratitude to her for raising him against all odds.

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As a child, he is brave and stand up for what is right. He is mature at a young age however he is weak physically

As an adult, he is a coward, letting him get pushed around by colleagues and mother. Ik he argues with mother but he still cannot "force" her to move. He is mentally weak at his age

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as a kid...

Boon was carefree and unburdened,

since he was a child, Boon had fewer responsibilities and worries.

as an adult...

Boon is more conflicted as he experiences inner conflict as he reflects on the changes in his life. he also struggles with the pressures of adult life, including financial burdens and societal expectations.

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As a child -

Hes very naive and very playful. Hes an energetic mischievous little boy who just wants to play around and have fun while also breaking some house rules in the process of the playing

As Adult -

Boon seems more introverted and not that energetic. What used to be a ball of sunshine died down. In all the acts, it seems like most of time, boon seems confused and angered (Basically he's surrounded by negativity) He's also more pessimistic

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As a child he didn't know why father was abusive and did not want to listen to him causing him to be stubborn and fight back. As an adult boon understands all these causing him to be alone as he does not want to be like his father

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boon as a child- he was more respectful and cared more about his mother's feelings

boon as an adult- his attitude towards his mother change as he cared less about his mother's feelings and more easily high-tempered due to his trauma he carry with him.

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as a child, boon is really active, daring and energetic but as an adult, boon has a tired personality because hes always persuading mother to move out

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Boon starts to become alot more like his father then he knows like he starts to prioritise money like his father and and the dream of living in a bigger house he tells mother about how amazing life would be like in a bigger house just like how young father tells this to young mother. He starts to act unlike his child self

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it's probably like loan sharks so young father owes money to someone

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i dont thinks there's much difference as he was going to be like this as an adult because of his trauma

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I feel that this scene explores a child's fear but also anger and childish behaviours. The scene also shows a short-tempered behaviour.

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it makes me realise the dark side of young fathers character

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father is harsh and rough on boon. he has anger management issues

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he is trying to not let boon see that he owes loan sharks money

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The stage direction makes the scene feel very intense and impactful. It also leaves us with a cliff hanger as the scene ends with Young Boon screaming about how he hates his father. You can feel the desperation of Boon trying to escape and his fear of his father.

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The stage directions paint young father as a monster with descriptions such as "roars with anger" like a beast or how he drags Boon like an animal with their prey

It feels like we are Boon and are in his perspective using this scene, with father [trying] to instill fear in Boon as he disciplines him

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It expresses boon's fear and hatred to his father

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I think the father did not want to treat boon harshly but he did so because he really didn't want mother to find out about loan sharks

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I feel like the scene is quite mysterious as the young fathers emotions are unstable, especially when he wanted to tie Boon to the tree just because he accidentally kicked the pot of paint

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Young Father has a strong mental influence over Boon. Kinda weird that YF's first instinct to stop Boon's "childishness" in kicking down the paint was to chain him up??

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I feel that it shows more emotions expressed in the scene.

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it makes me realise that the father is violent and short tempered. boon was only a child back then so it was normal for him to act childishly, but the method used to punish boon is very wrong and violent

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The ugly scrawls remind me of Boon talking about (blood) stains in his soliloquy and even Scene 16 when Mother talks about blood being in the walls.

At the end of the scene, it’s not clear if Boon intentionally kicks the paint (it seems so). Regardless, the trigger seems trivial but it’s the breaking point for Father. He treats Boon as a prisoner maybe representing by how trapped (and strapped) he is by his debts and addiction.

Perhaps he wants time to stop (by locking down Boon) so he has time to repair the damaged, clean the stains and rebuild.

The image of boon kneeling to the tree is suggestive of a worship posture but that might be over reading.

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This seen shows how fathers hidden anxiety manifests as anger when young boon walks in and tries to bother him

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i think boon got beat up after this and jean tay was too lazy to describe the beating specifically

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boon got left there alone in the dark, knelt down in pain.

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Father walked away, leaving Boon alone

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boon was left there alone to be 'discipline'

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Boon gets chained up to the tree, then he left him to stay in that position alone after father thinks that he needs time to reflect on his action. father also may have beaten him up and yelled at him to humiliate boon and make him remember his mistake.

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Boon was probably beaten up [to make sure he can't struggle, [maybe] yelled at, then chained to the tree to continue the beating and humiliation

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boon was left there alone to suffer in pain

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father tied boon to the tree then left him there alone

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I think there’ll be a lot of Boon screaming for help, then crying then silence. In the background we’ll hear gather hurriedly trying to remove the stains then the sound of the gate opening and mother returning, her gasp and her exchange of serious words telling father to leave at one and her probably crying as she says this and rescued Boon from the tree. Amidst her sobs, she’ll probably ask him if he’s okay and hug him hard. Both mother and child in each other’s arms crying under the tree in the dark.

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father leaves boon tied to the tree and boon screams for help but gets no response from anyone so he just gives up

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I think that Boon's Father left and Boon continued to scream .

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In order to show the severity of it

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Boon got knocked out and could not remember his pain

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I think after this scene, Boon basically got disciplined by Young father by being chained to a tree and when young mother came home and saw what young father did, she was shocked and angry

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lights off suggests that YF abandoned Boon in the backyard and turned off the lights in the house and went to sleep

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it suggests that young father left boon tied to the tree for the whole night as punishment

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Someone who had suffered a lot

Short-tempered

Misunderstood

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Father seems bipolar which could be a result of being under a lot of stress and having to manage the responsibilities of being a father and a husband. There’s probably a lot of self-degradation that things have become so bad and there’s a deep desire to restart perhaps.

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violent, short-tempered, a bad husband and parent

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yes, now I kind of know the reasons behind his behaviour

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fake, short tempered, entitled

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yes, as i can kind of understand the cause of his actions better now

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yes

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acts without thinking, split personality, aggressive

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yes because i know what made him to react the way he does and how he is feeling