Journal According to Patrick Maloney

This is for my E-learning, and as my highest intelligence is Intrapersonal, I will be doing the journal entry according to Patrick Maloney before the events that happen, which is, his death.

Dear diary,

Never have I expected that things would come to this. The day we met was like a hit-and-run and I still taste it on my tongue. It was all so forced. At that point of time, I felt like the luckiest man on earth. My wife was beautiful, talented, loving and always cooked the best meals I have ever ate in my entire life. Within only 6 months after we met, we got married. Church bells rang, flowers were thrown in the air and cheers of joy were heard. I was contented. Then I soon found the flaw, in the "perfect woman". She is overly paranoid. In the morning, she asks me what I am going to do for work today and if my work would finish late. During work she calls me fifteen times, just to check if I am doing fine. When I come back from work, she bombards me with questions like, "Honey, what case did you investigate today?" and "How come you reek of alchol?". At first, I felt this was just her love and concern for me, but after two years, I had enough of it.

One night, she came to me and said, "Don't you something missing in the house dear? There should be children laughing and calling us. Shall we have a baby, honey?". I thought that if we had a baby, she would perhaps be more occupied with taking care of it, and would not be so paranoid over me all the time and thus, I agreed.

Now, It's been 4 months since that night. I did something horrible. The next closest woman to me apart from my mother, would be my colleague. I have been with her fighting crime for as long as I can remember. I knew she had always carried a torch for me, but I ended up with my wife, Mary. During that night, I found out that all along, I had feelings for this woman. That I was never serious about the relationship between Mary and I. Now, I know that what I am about to do tomorrow is something people will say an act of unfaithfulness. I too, do not know how to break this news to her.

I have thought of keeping my relationship with my colleague from Mary but I thought that she had the right to know. What is the point of staying with someone I no longer love? Nevertheless, I will provide for her and still treat the child in her baby as if I had never divorced with her. Tomorrow, I will lift this burden off my heart, and embark on a new and exciting life with my new found love. Hopefully.

Signing off,
Patrick Maloney

Reasons to my ending in my previous post

As stated in my ending, I chose for the lady to come out of the door. There are some reasons why I feel that the lady would have came out and not the tiger and I will elaborate on them.

Firstly, I feel that the princess' love for the young man was a true and unconditional one. If she had truly loved the young man like stated in the short story, then no matter how much jealousy she had, no matter if in the end she could get him or not, she would certainly not have led her lover into the wrong door. Some might say that, what is the point of leading him to the correct door if he would spend the rest of his life with someone else? Well, if the young man had died, the princess surely would not have a single chance to live with the young man but if was alive and though with that lady, she could perhaps persuade her father. Besides, the princess is the father's treasure and most likely try his best to do what he can to satisfy his daughter's needs and wants.

Even though the young man is not of royal blood, he could still win he could make it up with his attributes. He is someone who has reached near perfection, and I believe he could gain rank slowly by merit. I would like to end of now with something I have always believed in, "It takes great courage to kill, but it takes even more courage to let go." This simply means it would take someone who is prepared to lose his loved ones if he cannot have them, but it would take someone selfless and forgiving to be able to let him go on with those that you hate and envy.

Ending to "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

We were required to read this short story but the ending to this story is ambiguous, which means the author does not state what the ending would be, which leaves us, the readers to decide it for ourselves. After reading it though, I decided that it was the lady that came out.

This is my ending:

The man closed his eyes, preparing for the worst and at the same time his happiness which all depended on his choice. Praying in his heart, he finally found the courage to open his eyes. There she stood, beautiful, fair and young, a perfect match to this young man. Everyone jumped for joy, with the crowd cheering and the man heaving a sigh of relief at the fact that he had almost lost his life but at the same time, embracing the lady. However, amidst all the joy and relief, there is one person who started tearing. Beside her, the king slammed his fist onto his chair in frustration. Church bells rang, flowers were thrown, everywhere the crowd gathered to witness the wedding of one might call a "perfect couple". Once again, a lone figure stood among the crowd, suffering in silence, broken hearted and full of jealousy and agony. This man had forgotten about her, had forgotten who was his true lover, had forgotten who had saved his life. After the wedding was over, when the rest had all left, the man told his wife that he would clean the place up. Then, at the corner of his eye, he found a note. Thinking it was just a piece of paper another person dropped, he crushed it and tore it to a million pieces. Those words were gone, as the wind swept the remaining pieces of paper. Who might have ever thought that that paper was a note left by the princess and on it was written: "It took me a great courage to lead you to the door with the tiger, but it took me an even greater courage to lead you to the door with that lady."

Positive and Negative Connotations of Adjectives

Just recently, we had a lesson in class that I found quite crucial in writing. Firstly, to understand what are the positive and negative connotations of adjectives, we must know what is a connotation. Now to understand what is a connotation, we also need to know what is a denotation. A denotation is the defined meaning of a word, which simply put, its actual or dictionary meaning. The connotation of a word is its emotional reaction, or the meaning beyond the basic definition, which can change depending on the context. Why this is important is because if we use a word with the incorrect connotation, we might give the reader the wrong idea. For example:

The thrifty old man saves when he can.

The stingy old man saves when he can.

So basically words that leave a good emotional impression have a positive connotation while words that leave a bad emotional impression have a negative connotation but not all words have a separate connotative meaning.

Here are some examples

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Noun: Laughter
Positive Connotation: Spontatneous
Negative Connotation: Childish

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Noun: Music
Positive Connotation: Diversified
Negative Connotation: Noisy

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Noun: Flavour
Positive Connotation: Savoury
Negative Connotation: Bland

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As you can see the connotation does affect the impact and impression it gives the reader. Thats all for today. Thank you for your kind attention=)