https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x Conflict between Boon and Y.Father (corpse) en-us 2022-03-21 02:48:26 UTC 2025-10-25 02:30:58 UTC hello@padlet.com zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104412632 Act 1 Scene 5: Boon's Dream -> Internal struggle of staying in Mother's home reminds him of his painful childhood memories with his father ]]> 2022-03-21 02:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104412632 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104420956 Act 2 scene 20: Cremation 

> "Slowly, his irritation turns into wonder, a transcendental smile lights up his face, as he watches the spiralling ash like a little boy whose dream has come true" 
Stage direction is highly descriptive (Transcendental: idea is extremely special and unusual and cannot be understood in ordinary ways) and showing Boon finally moving past his childhood trauma and letting go of the hate he has for father ]]> 2022-03-21 03:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104420956 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104426370 - Explosive, tense scene 
-depicts conflict (over Y.F trying to cover up the loan sharks red scrawls and Boon disturbing him) between young Boon and Young Father, culminating in Young Father chaining him to the tree.

]]> 2022-03-21 03:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104426370 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104426592 Boon seeing Father as his conscience, and shows how Boon does not want to become like his father. "[ brokenly] I am not like you. [ defiantly ] I wont be like you." Conflict over Boon living in the showflat after Mother kicked him out of her house. Boon is reduced to child-like behaviour after being confronted by Father. Boon is still powerless to his Father.

Character development: 
Audience can see Boon's determination not to turn into his father and abandon the family after a conflict, prompting him to return to mother in A2S8]]> 2022-03-21 03:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104426592 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104426907 This scene largely focuses on the Mother and Boon conflict but also touches illustrating how Boon's opinion of his father has strained the relationship that he has with his mother 

"It's in your name. You worked like mad for it!"
"That's it, isn't it? You're still waiting for him to come back! Le xiao ah!" Boon cannot understand why Mother would want to wait for Father, because he sees his father is a failure for abandoning them ]]> 2022-03-21 03:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104426907 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104427128 Greatest manifestation of Boon's hatred for father 
> "I am not like that bastard at all. I have been here. With you... all these years... not like that piece of shit who left us alone and is never coming back" 
> Feels very strongly against being compared to his Father,
> "How can you defend a monster like that?" 
Strong emotion shown by Boon > his contempt for his Father who abandoned the family 

> "Because I told him not to!" 
> "Boon doesn't reply, as he struggles to digest this information"
This revelation that Mother actually kicked Boon's father out of the house over him chaining Boon to the tree and not that he abandoned the family; changes the dynamic of the conflict between Boon and Father- the main reason of his hate is now no longer really justified ]]> 2022-03-21 03:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104427128 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104427590 Shortest scene in the entire book where Boon finally takes the action to chop down Mother's fig tree; a representation of how Boon finally takes the action to cut down the tree that reminds the family of Father

For the plot, this scene serves to get Mother out of her old home.
Boon takes matters into his own hands, finally removes the hold his Father has on him. Overcomes trauma( character development)]]> 2022-03-21 03:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104427590 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104434682 Boon's vivid memory of being chained on the tree after a long period of time, prompted by the scene of Y.F confronting him in the show flat

Character Dev: We have a deeper understanding of what Boon endure as a child and we understand his hatred towards his father, and the basis for the conflict ]]> 2022-03-21 03:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/zb60rjtq5msm4x3x/wish/2104434682