A Thousand Words

I started the story with the statement 'How charmingly naive'. Notice that over the story, the phrase has changed to 'how innocent' to 'how adorable'. This shows that the main character, which is "I", changed her perspective towards school children after one-hour interaction with them. The main character was portrayed as a cynical and sarcastic person in the beginning. However, after spending time with the pupils, she started to reflect more on herself. She was also shown as a proud person in the middle of the story. At the end of the story, she was shown to be less proud as she was willing to learn from the children. Her perspective began to change when the character Putera asked her unexpected question and she tried to answer. This story is all about changing perspective and it is delivered through the main character. The theme of love is also touched lightly when the main character tried to explain what love is towards the children.  . The sto...

‘How charmingly naive,’ was what crossed my mind when I heard people said children particularly love new teachers. Naive, as they hadn’t figure out if the new teacher is an angel or a devil, yet still liked them undoubtedly. That is, before the teacher enters their class, obviously.             So when I first went to school, I half expected what would happen. And sure enough, I was correct. The children begged me to enter their class, not knowing how unfriendly or how stern I was. However, even when I entered their class, showing no signs of what people call adorable and likeable kind of teacher, the children were still begging me to enter their class again. This was the other half of what I hadn’t expected.             Anyway, that was not the point of this story. It all began when I was asked to enter the Year 4 class. Of course, I would agree. After all, I was just...