Monro Leaf: Being An American Can Be Fun

As this book was interesting to read it can be viewed by the readers as mean or informative based on the individual person. For a person who is studying to become a teacher, this book gives mixed messaged for our day and age. Given that Monro Leaf is an amazing author and the “Can Be Fun…” books are very informative and helpful for young children. This book “Being an American Can Be Fun” can be viewed as offensive in the time we live in now. Leaf had covered many topics in his book ranging from democracy to values of an American to how to act as an American. Throughout the book, the text had informed the reader of problems that are occurring in the world. The book has an influence on the readers so that every child who reads the book will leave school all believing that the book Leaf had written is the way life should be.
In our world, today Leaf’s book would have caused major controversy. The major reason is because the people of today would have taken offense to the fact that the book only told little lies and truths. When this book was popular back in the 1960’s and 1970’s it …show more content…
As influential Leaf is as an author the way the book was written can be not taken well with the people now given the times on how people take topics and argue over them as opinionated as people are today. But being opinionated is not a bad thing and it is encouraged so that our voices no matter how big or small they may be can be heard. Leaf would have been ridiculed because of this book because of how it is drastically different from his other books. An example of a piece of his work it can be compared to is “The Story of Ferdinand” which is about how a young bull was captured and put into a ring to fight after being seen trying to rid his self of the bee that was near him. This book can be praised as a book to teach young children to not judge anyone without getting to know