{"id":1715,"date":"2014-02-12T02:39:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1715"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:11:07","slug":"is-it-possible-that-a-person-s-life-is-cursed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1715","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible that a person\u2019s life is cursed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A person\u2019s life can never be cursed. What matters most is your attitude towards difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A person life may seem to be cursed at the beginning. Take Stanley Yelnats in the book <em>Holes<\/em>. He is always in the wrong place at the wrong time, like all his ancestors were. People all believe he has stolen a famous basketball star Clyde Livingston\u2019s sneakers and he is sent to Camp Green Lake, a training camp for juvenile criminals to correct themselves. Even in the camp, he is condemned for grabbing sunflower seeds from a camp instructor Mr Sir and is badly mistreated. It appears that his life is doomed to bad luck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">However, you can definitely break the \u2018curse\u2019 by taking action. In <em>Holes, <\/em>Stanley finds it pointless to clarify he has not committed any crimes in the beginning. He does not want people to think he has a bad attitude. He also acts as a yes-man and follows the orders of X-Ray, the head of a gang of boys in the camp. He even hands in a precious golden tube of Kissing-Kate Barlow to X-Ray, who then gets a day off from work. But everything begins to turn out well when Stanley decides to fight back. He tries to steal a water truck to save Zero, another camper and his best friend. Although he fails to do so, he is still very determined to rescue Zero on his own in a boiling hot wasteland.\u00a0 Together, he and his best friend survive and come back to camp. Stanley is also proved to be innocent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">Every person has to face hardships and adversities. But the most crucial part is how you deal with them. You cannot back out because there is only you who can take action and speak out for yourself.\u00a0 Like what Stanley\u2019s mother always insists, there never is a curse. We should not focus on the misfortune; instead, treasure what you have and you will know how lucky you are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A person\u2019s life can never be cursed. What matters most is your attitude towards difficulties.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A person life may seem to be cursed at the beginning. Take Stanley Yelnats in the boo<em>Hole<\/em>. He is always in the wrong place at the wrong time, like all his ancestors were. People all believe he has stolen .........<\/span><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1715\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-others","schoolyear-35"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}