Personal Response Example

Chapter 7 – Pippi Goes to the Circus – Sequence of Events             1-    Annika and Tommy invite Pippi to go see a circus that's come to town. 2-    Pippi doesn't know what a "surkus" is, but wants to get a look at one and agrees to go. 3-    Because Pippi pays for her ticket with a genuine gold piece and refuses to accept any change, the ticket lady upgrades all of the children's tickets so they are seated in the grandstand (lovely red chairs right next to the ring). 4-    The first act features ten white horses, and when one stops right in front of the children, Pippi shakes hands and (Pippi offers it greetings from her horse at home). 5-    The second act features a lady riding a black horse, and when they ride past the kids, Pippi hops onto the horse with the lady, Miss Carmencita. 6-    The audience loves Pippi's performance, but neither Miss Carmencita nor the ringmaster are amused. 7-    Two guards try to throw Pippi out, but give up when they are unable to budge her. 8-    The tightrope walker is the next act, and Pippi joins in on that one as well. 9-    The ringmaster wants Pippi gone, but the crowd cheers for her and demands he let her stay. 10-  He attempts to sabotage her by undoing the tightrope wire, but Pippi just swings around for a while and then lands on the ringmaster before returning to her seat. 11-  Next the ringmaster introduces the circus strongman, the Mighty Adolf, and offers one hundred dollars to anyone who can beat him in a wrestling match. 12-  You can guess who takes him on. Pippi accept the challenge and wins. She beats the strong man. 13-  When the ringmaster attempts to give Pippi a one hundred dollar bill, Pippi tells him she has no use for an old piece of paper and suggests he use it to fry some fish. 14-  Last but not least, after that all, Pippi goes back to her seat and takes a nap in the circus.
Personal Response Dear student, your personal response to any text, topic or story is, for example, a piece of writing by demonstrating a perceptive personal understanding of a text. You need to describe the topic, express your feelings and findings, and give some of your thoughts and ideas about what you read, learned etc. In short, a personal response is (your response) what we did about Pippi Longstocking in our classes. See the following and last exercise we did last week at school.
Chapter 7 – Pippi Goes to the Circus
Description	In this chapter, (Pippi Goes to the Circus) Annika and Tommy invite Pippi to go see a circus that has come to town and Pippi doesn't know what it is. Tommy and Annika explain it to her. However, when Pippi pays for her ticket with gold pieces she doesn’t understand why she needs to pay for it, and she refuses to accept the change. Because of that, the ticket lady gives the three kids special tickets so they get the chance to sit at the grandstand, a much better place to see the act features.
Feelings	I feel sorry for Pippi. She is 9 years old and she has no idea what a circus is. But I felt so happy when the ticket lady upgrades all of the children's tickets so they could be seated in the grandstand. Pippi was very lucky to have the chance and sit on lovely comfortable chairs and stay right next to the ring.
Findings	I didn’t know there were horses in the circus, I believed there were only elephants, monkeys, and lions, but not horses. At first, I didn’t understand Miss Carmencita didn’t like Pippi performing with her. Then after reading a bit more I found not only the ringmaster was angry. Pippi was having fun, but people from the circus didn’t like when she joined in on circus act features. It means that we need to ask for permissions before we do somethings we would like to.
Thoughts and Ideas	In my opinion, even though she got herself into trouble, Pippi had an awesome time, and it was her first awesome time in the circus. It was definitely a great day for her. When the first act features began, the ten white horses stopped right in front of Pippi. I think it was very funny when Pippi offered greetings from her horse to the circus horses. After all the fun moments, though, I didn’t get why Pippi went back to her seat and took a nap in the circus.