In our Year 10 English class we have been studying and watching the ‘7Up’ series and its installments, so far we are up to ’28Up’. We have been watching how each person develops and what the differences are between each person based on upbringing. In this blog post I will be writing about Simon, how he has developed and matured and what sot of things have influenced this.
Simon is (so far in the series) a 28 year old man, with a couple of children, actually five. He works at a frozen meat works and is pretty content with life. Simon is one of the characters that have changed the most yet at the same time kept a pretty normal life style. Throughout each installment Simon’s attitude to life stays mostly the same but his goals and drams change. He went from someone who originally wanted to be a wanderer, to film star, then to an electrical engineer to finally being a meat works laborer. Simon is not a very ambitious person but had a few dreams in his life.
Earlier on in the series, you could see the sort of sadness in his life, but as he grew up and started to accept things and move on he seems to look very happy. Also with Simon’s new family he wants to encourage them but not push them, he wants to be a good father, something Simon didn’t have when he was younger. Throughout the UP series you can see how Simon went from a guy who had a day-fly like attitude to life to a more serious person.