Education Of Little Tree Analysis

“ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus”(Galatians 3:28). For millions of years humans have fought bloody battles against each other on the name of religion and human equality. After many years, we have come to understand and accept the different religions and races around the world. The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Caster, is a great movie example on how the white Christians discriminated Native Americans just because they sought life with a different point. In this movie we come to understand how a white eight year old grow living like an Indian and learn the “Cherokee way of life” (Caster).
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First, Little Tree is taken way from Grandpa and Grandma and move to a Christian reformatory school where he encounter people that did not understand him. In this school he was not allow to speak Indian, even though he didn’t know how to, and then he was supposed to behave and follow the “white” Christian manner. While inside, the most outstanding scene was when the teacher ask the class to describe what the animals were doing and there was a picture of two deer. The poor Little Tree start explaining that these two deer are matting and he knew this because he could tell from the color of the trees and the position of the two deer. At the moment the teacher felt so disrespected that she started hitting him; even though he didn’t understood why. I think the problem with the teacher was not able to comprehend how a boy would be talking about sex when this was prohibit to talk about specially a kid. I was actually taken back years ago when I was in elementary and my best friend , one of the most smartest kid that I have ever met in my life, had this very young teacher, more than 25 years old, wrote in the board a word misspelled and he actually corrected her. The teacher was mad that this seven year old boy corrected her in from on the entire class that she actually call his parents and made a big scene in the entire school. When his parent arrived she was not expecting his parent to well-educated professionals and when they saw the problem his mother told her that she needed to go back to school because she was actually wrong. The point of this two stories is that even though a person is older doesn’t specifically means that they know everything. I think that from the moment we are born to the moment we die life is a big book full of lessons and every day we learn a new