KEVIN

Based on the story ‘Kevin’ by Catherine Lim, I like Kevin’s mother character because she always takes care of her son even though others might think that she is cruel. From my point of view, Kevin’s mother wants the best for him. She wants her son to be a successful person in his future. For me, what she had done is right because when Kevin passes the exam with flying colours, he will be rewarded with many presents. Although some of them are not what he wants. For example, he wants a pair of football boots but his mother gives him a pair of sneakers. He wants comic but instead of that, he was given books. His mother refused to buy him comic because of the stupidity and poor language. She disallows her son to play football because she thinks that football was rough. Besides, Kevin’s friend, Boon Kee gives bad influence towards him. 

Kevin’s mother shows her love towards her son even though she being very strictly towards Kevin. It has been prove in the text when she kisses Kevin before he went to sleep. She also asks Kevin to go to bed when she saw her son was already sleepy. I believe that a mother will still love and concern about her child no matter how strict and fierce she is.

             From my opinion, Kevin’s character is really obedient. He did everything his mother wants even though he does not like it. As long as her mother happy and will not scold him, he will do it. Kevin passes almost all tests with excellent results because of her mother. His mother rewarded him when he got first place in his class.

            Personally, I think what have Kevin’s mother did were good for him but her way is a little bit inconvenient for Kevin since he was not a child anymore. This will give bad effects for Kevin when he grows up later. He will be unable to make decision because it was her mother doing that for him all the time. Besides, he lacks communication skills because he just follows what his mother wants. He never learn how to communicate well from her mother. Plus, he will be an anti social person as his mother controls everything in his life including his friends. She disallows Kevin to be friend with Boon Kee because she believes that he will give bad influence towards her son. For me, his mother should let him control his own life so that he will be a better person in the future.  

There is one day when he got only 82 percent and he is really afraid that he will be scolded by her mother. It was his first time getting mark lower than 95 percent. When he goes home, his servant told him that his mother was being hospitalized he was very happy instead of worrying about his mother condition because he will not be scolded. I think son should care about his mother. He should not do that. He should worry about his mother’s health. But, if I look in different ways, in was his mother fault at all because she is the one whom never shows her concern towards Kevin. Kevin feels greatly happy because he does not have any affection towards her.

            In conclusion, the story is good and I really enjoy reading it. It gives me a lot of lessons to be practiced in my life.