For "Magnificance"

1. what does "magnificence" pertain to in the story? How did you feel/ what were your thoughts after the discussion?

Actually, I can't really tell what is magnificence in the story, but magnificence for me in the story is the guy named Vincente and the mother of the two children. If you see Vincente's characteristic, he doesn't stop molesting the little girl and that means he doesn't care who will be the person that will be molested. He always tried to give the pencils and let the little girl to like him, I think. The mother, she is the best mother. She didn't shout, or call someone else to escape the place when she saw Vincente, but she was calm and quietly let the children go away from Vincente. She let Vincente not to do it to her little daughter again. I like how she handled the happening and slapped him.
I felt the same after the discussion. I thought about Vincente that he's a pervert, I liked how the mother handled the guy, and I tried to understand the little girl how she felt about him when I read the story. Then we talked about the story, and we discussed about Vincente, the mother, the children, and I didn't really felt so different from what I thought before we discuss.


2. Have you ever had similar instances of people displaying feats of character?

I don;t have any instances or experiences that are similar to the story. I only have a quite different thing, that when I was with my mom and her friend's friend who fixed our TV speakers. When he came to my house and tried to fix our speakers, mom was preparing lunch for him because he is the friend of her friend. Then after he fixed the speakers, he was watching a movie and at the same time, he was checking the sound. I was with mom and when she prepared lunch, she called the guy. He wasn't coming so my mom went to him to call him. Surprisingly, he was watching the movie and the part was having sex. My mom got surprised because I was there and he focued on watching it. Mom tried to let him not to watch and she said stop the DVD mvoie and called him many times to eat lunch. Then he stopped the DVD movie. It is a different experience but I think it's a bit similar. I got irritated and I wanted him to go home. And I don't like such those people who watch something and don't care.