The King Of Children Book Analysis

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Whilst reading the King of Children I felt a resemblance to many western stories that we have had in the past decade. Although Western movies and stories are what I am usually used to I found that the King of Children added a new complex understanding of what it is like to become a teacher without any real proper training during the cultural revolution. The story which is the third in a series. The reader follows the life of beanpole who is scouted by the officials to teach at a school up in the mountains. When he arrives, he realizes that the kids he is teaching is not up to the level that he originally thought they were, which in turn brings beanpole to not only teach them but to reach into their souls and really make them better people and …show more content…

To end this "tangent" of how I truly felt about the movie, I would like to focus in on the good parts of what really the story was about. That story was to focus in on the students who were in need of education, and not the typical reading and writing portion, but also the education of confidence, happiness, and well-being of the students. The one part I took away from both the film and the book is that once again one man can change a young group of students. To finish off the reaction essay, I would like to answer the last question that was asked, about how I saw a portion of the film and how I really saw it in my mind. I wanted to focus in on one portion when beanpole and his friend are in his room, and the detail of the leaky roof, the wobbly desk, and the bed without a mattress really allowed me to materialize in my mind what I thought of this tiny room. Personally, I saw somewhat of a prison cell smallness, with the furniture that was made out of what I would assume is bamboo, but in my head, I didn't see it as a wood I just saw it as a full-fledged furniture