The Silent Treatment Analysis
“The Silent Treatment”
The silent treatment is a method that some people use in order to make others feel powerless, invisible, intimidated, insignificant, “dissed”, looked down on, disapproved of, guilty, frustrated, and even angry.
When I was in high school in the Dominican Republic, I used to go everyday to my Spanish class. Angelina Torres was my Spanish professor. She always said that she was 99 percent perfect, which means that she never was able to make a mistake, but that was what she thought. Every day that I went to my Spanish class, I tried to participate as much as I could because Spanish is my first language, and it was the most interesting subject for me.It also was the easiest one. However, everytime that I raised my hands, …show more content…
my professor ignored me, but as a good student I never was intimidated or frustrated because she ignored me. Days later when I raised my hands she looked at me and said “ tell me”, with an angry face. When I responded the question, and it was the right answer she looked at me, but never told me anything; her answers were silent pauses. Later on, going to her class became uncomfortable because of her attitude. I used to sit in front of her to learned in a more efficient way and to show her that I was interested in what she explained. As time went on I sat on the back of the class, and I did not participate. I just went to my Spanish class in order to be present. After that she was happy, and I realized that it was what she wanted all along.
It is almost the time to finish the year, and the professor thought that I would not do anything else to get a good grade. She gave us a test, and I sat in the front of the class. As I did this, she told the others that for this test she was going to move everybody from where they sat. She thought that if she moved me from where I sat, I was more likely to fail the test. Therefore, I was the last one in the last column. Unfortunately for her, I got 100 percent which means that no answer was wrong. When my professor saw it, she felt terrible and did publish 99 percent instead of 100 percent, and wrote a note saying that no one knows perfect Spanish to get 100 percent.
The last day of the year I gave her a present and inside the box I gave her a letter saying, “No one is 99 percent perfect and the simple things that we do, in order to make others frustrated, or powerless than you, is the worst mistake that a person can make.”
This story is a good example of the snap judgment episode “The Silent Treatment" which is about a boy that when he was in second grade, his teacher never called him stupid, dumb or slow, but he always finished his homeworks, and her answers were please, choose another one.
On third grade, a man with a tie, went to the classroom and told the students that according to his assessment the students have to take a special tests to determine if they were gifted, which means if they had natural abilities , their own talent. Then the professor told the students to get off of their seats and leave the classroom. On his fourth grade after a boy told him that the principal demanded him to deliver his parents a letter that explained them that he was suspended from school for agitating violence ,which is the state of agitation or turbulent change or development. On his fifth grade, a lady told him that the CAT and DOG could run, but he asked himself if he was writing cat and dog on the board. Then the lady said that he did not have to be worry if he spelled wrong he just had to do the best that he could. On sixth grade a lady turn his chair to face the wall, but the other students chair face the teacher and the boy was in this position for the rest of the year they never call him anything, they never said a word, but the problem was that the boy never said anything
either.
With that story I would like to let people understand that sometimes actions can say what words cannot. In life some people do not know the importance of fighting for what you want to get, and the importance of keeping in mind that not every people is going to give you the right road map, you should get this by your own. Almost everywhere people just care about what they want, and do not even think that there is more people who also need an opportunity, to get part of what life has to everybody. Also, that even though some people have the power in some part of your life, you are free, never lose your smile, if you have more teeth that who is speaking.
I believe that if people think the same way that I do, the new generation is less likely to suffer because of others. People will be happy without thinking about that they are less than others, will love their professors, will love living in a world, where everyone has the same position, will have the hope that the light of their life is always over them. If people think the same way that I do, abusive methods of how to treat people will stop. This control that some people want to have in others will stop. If people think the way I do "The silent treatment" will be unknown.
Base on my experienced, I believe that one of the best ways to help people how to deal with the control that others want to have in their life, is doing always the best that you can because a person just like you cannot make you invisible, even when you are between dark walls, remember everybody has their own light. As a second language speaker my greatest challenge while delivering my speech was my pronunciation. For example, when I was delivering the speech to myself, I stumble my words principally when I said “Abusive Methods.” In addition, as I make a lot of run-on sentences when I am delivering them I say them fast which makes me sound unclear. Since I felt confident, and I knew the material I believe the speech was well delivered. However, if I were to read it to an audience because I would have been nervous, and my pronunciation is not excellent my speech would not have been as good.
The silent treatment is a method that some people use in order to make others feel powerless, invisible, intimidated, insignificant, “dissed”, looked down on, disapproved of, guilty, frustrated, and even angry.
When I was in high school in the Dominican Republic, I used to go everyday to my Spanish class. Angelina Torres was my Spanish professor. She always said that she was 99 percent perfect, which means that she never was able to make a mistake, but that was what she thought. Every day that I went to my Spanish class, I tried to participate as much as I could because Spanish is my first language, and it was the most interesting subject for me.It also was the easiest one. However, everytime that I raised my hands, …show more content…
my professor ignored me, but as a good student I never was intimidated or frustrated because she ignored me. Days later when I raised my hands she looked at me and said “ tell me”, with an angry face. When I responded the question, and it was the right answer she looked at me, but never told me anything; her answers were silent pauses. Later on, going to her class became uncomfortable because of her attitude. I used to sit in front of her to learned in a more efficient way and to show her that I was interested in what she explained. As time went on I sat on the back of the class, and I did not participate. I just went to my Spanish class in order to be present. After that she was happy, and I realized that it was what she wanted all along.
It is almost the time to finish the year, and the professor thought that I would not do anything else to get a good grade. She gave us a test, and I sat in the front of the class. As I did this, she told the others that for this test she was going to move everybody from where they sat. She thought that if she moved me from where I sat, I was more likely to fail the test. Therefore, I was the last one in the last column. Unfortunately for her, I got 100 percent which means that no answer was wrong. When my professor saw it, she felt terrible and did publish 99 percent instead of 100 percent, and wrote a note saying that no one knows perfect Spanish to get 100 percent.
The last day of the year I gave her a present and inside the box I gave her a letter saying, “No one is 99 percent perfect and the simple things that we do, in order to make others frustrated, or powerless than you, is the worst mistake that a person can make.”
This story is a good example of the snap judgment episode “The Silent Treatment" which is about a boy that when he was in second grade, his teacher never called him stupid, dumb or slow, but he always finished his homeworks, and her answers were please, choose another one.
On third grade, a man with a tie, went to the classroom and told the students that according to his assessment the students have to take a special tests to determine if they were gifted, which means if they had natural abilities , their own talent. Then the professor told the students to get off of their seats and leave the classroom. On his fourth grade after a boy told him that the principal demanded him to deliver his parents a letter that explained them that he was suspended from school for agitating violence ,which is the state of agitation or turbulent change or development. On his fifth grade, a lady told him that the CAT and DOG could run, but he asked himself if he was writing cat and dog on the board. Then the lady said that he did not have to be worry if he spelled wrong he just had to do the best that he could. On sixth grade a lady turn his chair to face the wall, but the other students chair face the teacher and the boy was in this position for the rest of the year they never call him anything, they never said a word, but the problem was that the boy never said anything
either.
With that story I would like to let people understand that sometimes actions can say what words cannot. In life some people do not know the importance of fighting for what you want to get, and the importance of keeping in mind that not every people is going to give you the right road map, you should get this by your own. Almost everywhere people just care about what they want, and do not even think that there is more people who also need an opportunity, to get part of what life has to everybody. Also, that even though some people have the power in some part of your life, you are free, never lose your smile, if you have more teeth that who is speaking.
I believe that if people think the same way that I do, the new generation is less likely to suffer because of others. People will be happy without thinking about that they are less than others, will love their professors, will love living in a world, where everyone has the same position, will have the hope that the light of their life is always over them. If people think the same way that I do, abusive methods of how to treat people will stop. This control that some people want to have in others will stop. If people think the way I do "The silent treatment" will be unknown.
Base on my experienced, I believe that one of the best ways to help people how to deal with the control that others want to have in their life, is doing always the best that you can because a person just like you cannot make you invisible, even when you are between dark walls, remember everybody has their own light. As a second language speaker my greatest challenge while delivering my speech was my pronunciation. For example, when I was delivering the speech to myself, I stumble my words principally when I said “Abusive Methods.” In addition, as I make a lot of run-on sentences when I am delivering them I say them fast which makes me sound unclear. Since I felt confident, and I knew the material I believe the speech was well delivered. However, if I were to read it to an audience because I would have been nervous, and my pronunciation is not excellent my speech would not have been as good.