The Teahouse of the August moon is a screenplay written by John Patrick. The play is an adaptation of a novel by the same name and written by an author named Vern Sneider. The story takes place in a small, rural village in post-World War II Okinawa, Japan. I personally enjoyed this play very much. I was captivated from the very beginning and could not stop reading until the bell rang, and it was very hard for me to put the book down. I think this story shows how people can have a change of heart. The story also shows sharing your culture can be beneficial or detrimental for the other person if you take things too far and force them to conform to your way of life. Even if a person didn’t learn any moral from this story, they probably will …show more content…
He was assigned to help westernise the village of Tobiki by building a schoolhouse and setting up a democracy. However, he ends up giving the government money he was supposed to use for the schoolhouse for construction of a teahouse and brewery instead. He began getting used to the Japanese culture when he was the one who was supposed to help the natives change their way of life. He was so adapted to the culture, he started wearing his bathrobe like a kimono. At first, he thought the villagers were lazy but later realised that the opposite was true. When Colonel Purdy arrives, he finds that Fisby used the government money for a teahouse and brewery instead of a schoolhouse. Purdy had the teahouse and brewery taken down, shortly afterwards he came to the conclusion that by building the teahouse and brewery Fisby had successfully created a democracy and capitalist economy. The people of Tobiki hadn’t actually destroyed anything, they had just hidden all of the materials. Purdy decided to give them permission to rebuild the teahouse and brewery. I have figured out that there are a only few similarities between Captain Fisby and me, those being that we have a phobia of failure, and we like to stick to our opinions (but can be persuaded