People always like to live in a life of pretending. They like to pretend to be someone else without knowing the consequences. Sometimes pretend can be a good thing and it's depend on individual purpose and situation. This issue is very popular in order to get attention from people around them. The same issue happen in short story titled 'Bugis'. A sudden change can give a bad impression to other people. Instead of being happy with our changes, they will talk behind our back saying that we only pretend to be nice. For example, the character, Salmah, a friend of the main character wears tudung. The narrator is not used to the changes that Salmah has made and she said that Salmah only pretend to be a good girl because she wants to gain trust from her mother and when they arrive at Polytechnic, Salmah will hold her boyfriends' hand.
Besides Salmah, the Bangladeshi men who pretend did not see the transvestite in the MRT. Usually men will make noise if they see either ladies or soft men, but the Bangladeshi men just keep silent in the MRT. They didn't make wolf-whistle sound probably because they pretend to behave themselves in the MRT in order they are not at their country. So, they think that it is better for them to behave than make problem. Surely if they are at their country they will make the wolf-whistle sound to whoever they want to annoy.
The transvestite also pretend that she's used with the looking from strangers. But deep down in her heart, she must be sad because the world can hardly accept people like her. She is trying to be someone else by change her true gender. She changed her identity probably because she had dark experinced with her real identity. It is useless to change identity to live in a comfortable life or to forget our nightmare. It is better to live as who you are because it is easy for people to accept and understand the real you.
Besides Salmah, the Bangladeshi men who pretend did not see the transvestite in the MRT. Usually men will make noise if they see either ladies or soft men, but the Bangladeshi men just keep silent in the MRT. They didn't make wolf-whistle sound probably because they pretend to behave themselves in the MRT in order they are not at their country. So, they think that it is better for them to behave than make problem. Surely if they are at their country they will make the wolf-whistle sound to whoever they want to annoy.
The transvestite also pretend that she's used with the looking from strangers. But deep down in her heart, she must be sad because the world can hardly accept people like her. She is trying to be someone else by change her true gender. She changed her identity probably because she had dark experinced with her real identity. It is useless to change identity to live in a comfortable life or to forget our nightmare. It is better to live as who you are because it is easy for people to accept and understand the real you.
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