What are your impressions of the boy, as well as the children in the poem?

I feel that the boy is very lonely and mysterious. He is very quiet and does not talk to the children. He is also anti-social and only watches the children play in the playground. He does not join them. He keeps all his feeling to himself and does not say them out. I think he was bullied before, thus he fears everybody. “We pass him by and never speaks.” This shows that the children and the boy could not communicate with one another. The reason may be that the children hated the boy and the boy was fearful of the children. Thus, I feel he is a very lonely and anti-social child. I hope he will forget about the past and start afresh.

The children are happy with their friends and always play in the playground together. They are full of energy and are contented with what they have. They reconcile after every arguments. “In slow huddled groups, low talking.’ It shows that the children are gossiping bad about the boy, maybe it is because they are not satisfied with the character of the boy. Instead of gossiping about him, they should go to him and offer him to play with them. Thus, I feel that the children are very clueless about the character of the boy.