Midterm Essay

The classic tale , Split Cherry Tree , exhibits just representation of general nature . While The Spirit of Emulation , on the other hand , is written in metaphor and does not represent common experience . I will discuss each stories different ways of meeting its desired moral intent and why each is valuable and has a lasting impact

Dave , the student in Split Cherry Tree , needed to stay after school as a consequence for splitting the cherry tree after he and five peers climbed the tree , splitting it under their weight . Professor Herbert and Dave understand

one another . Dave is not d with the consequences because he fears his father 's reaction yet , he displays honesty and a willingness to accept his responsibility "You don 't know my father " I says to Professor Herbert "He might be called a little old-fashioned . He makes us mind him until we 're twenty-one years old . He believes 'If you spare the rod you spoil the child ' I 'll never be able to make him understand about the cherry tree . I 'm the first of my people to go to high school

Today , there are so many families with children struggling to get a sound education . Part of this is due to family upbringing , or lack there of . Many students live with parents who lack formal education The parents also hold bitter remorse toward American school systems and thus , may vent their hostility , unfairly , on their children . In the story , Dave 's father , Luster , says "I 'll straighten this thing out myself ! I 'll take keer o ' Professor Herbert myself ! He ain 't got no right to keep you in and let the other boys off jist because they 've got th ' money ! I 'm a poor man . A bullet will go in a professor same as it will any man . It will go in a rich man same as it will a poor man

Then , at school , Luster sees how schools have changed since he attended realizing that he was wrong to speculate and make judgments based on emotion . Luster arrives with his son at school . Dave 's father , a man who picked up the long blue forty-four and put his finger on the end of the barrel on school grounds , in front of the teacher , learned , by conversing with Professor Herbert , that school was a necessary element toward a building a successful future . Guns and threats are not the answer . Today , the irony of imagining a parent come to school with a gun can truly scare us because of all the recent death and killings on school grounds by using weapons . Luster would 've been arrested immediately if he took such action in the 21st century . Readers can relate to this

Luster and the teacher wound up seeing eye-to-eye . They opened the channels of communication and understood each other . Students , parents and educational staff of the 21st century should understand this realization : It all starts with communication

Professor Herbert sees that Dave 's father , too , is...