Why Is Po Wan A Good Role Model

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An amazing role model would be Po-Wan from "The living Kuan-yin" He demonstrates qualities of a role model because he shows he is trustworthy and generous, two traits that middle schoolers could benefit greatly from. In the story a man named Po-wan has set off to find the living kuan-yin to ask her why he is so poor even though he has been a good person in life while on his journey he meets a Snake/Serpent who poses the first question for Po-Wan to ask the living Kuan-yin, a innkeeper who poses the second and a nice rich man who asks the third, Po-Wan realizes he can only ask 3 questions to Kuan-yin so he sacrifices his own knowing he won't get the answer. Po-wan shows he is trustworthy when he realizes he can only ask 3 questions which would mean he would have to forfeit his own. …show more content…

Po-Wan chooses to be trustworthy even though this action makes him forfeit his own even if it meant he could never know the answer to his question which he was longing to know. Middle schoolers can benefit from this example because it's always very important to be trustworthy towards friends and teachers to show you care even if there are bad or negative consequences for their actions. Sometimes people have to make sacrifices to be trustworthy just like Po-Wan had to. This shows Po-wan is trustworthy. In addition Po-wan is also generous, Which is a great quality middle school students could benefit from. Po-Wan makes an influence on one of the characters when In the story Po-wan sees a poor man holding out his bare hand for gold/money. When Po-Wan realizes this he rushes over and being generous he pours a few pieces of gold into the poor man's hands. Po-Wan decides to give the man the gold expecting nothing in return for it which shows he is very generous. Po-Wan decides to help the man even if it means he will have less gold and nothing in