Movie Review Pretty Big Feet And The Story - 1406 Words

When talking about knowledge, the first response is: We have free education. When looking into classrooms, certainly, there is, at least one or two students are not paying attention. Does it mean when things that are given without paying any effort, it does not value? In society, there are a percentage of people living under the poverty line. Yes, under the poverty line. Here, in the movie - Pretty Big Feet and the story - â€Å"The Lesson†, taught an important class that is not ever taught in any classroom – to treasure what we have. The two stories were written ten years apart, but the biggest difference between the two was not the era, but the group of children. In both the stories, they share a similar theme of trying to help a group of†¦show more content†¦The children can hardly get water to use, not to mention having a proper school with proper teacher to get education from. The only teacher they can have is Ms. Zhang, a young widow who loses her husband and her baby boy in two accidents, and she herself was not very educated (Yang). But these children appreciate and treasure the knowledge given by the two teachers, and the most adorable things is that the relationship between the teachers and the children were so close, even closer than mother and son. Comparing the two stories, there is an important figure to compare of – the teacher. In both the story and the movie, the teacher took up a big part of the storyline. In â€Å"The Lesson†, Miss Moore, the teacher who â€Å"†¦moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech and no makeup,† (Bambara 385) revealed with the words â€Å"proper speech† that she was an educated person. The description of the teacher appearance is alike with the teacher in the movie Pretty Big Feet. In Pretty Big Feet, the volunteer teacher who came from Beijing, Ms Xia first appeared with a fashionable all black, with no makeup (Yang). With education from a big city, Be ijing, she has proper speech as well. Both the teachers shared a common of educated, and chose to move to a rather poorer district to live in. Miss Moore had no clear purpose on educating the kids; she did it all for killing time with education to the kids in the neighborhood. Differently, Ms Xia went to Shanxi