Today there are many ways that you can translate what you read. There is not necessarily a “right and wrong” way to translate something. In the passage “Zookeeper” the author is very vague with what he/she meant. The way I interpret this is that the author is a teacher writing about his/her students. I came to this conclusion based on the sentence that states, “Please respect their responses to the weather, frantic times, and conditions that may affect the finest among us.” When I read this sentence I immediately thought of students going through rough times and how sometimes students will act out because of the tough times or because even the weather changes can make kids irritable. Another group of sentences that caught my eye was, “You
