Ideal and reality plump and skinny

Janelle 2021-11-22 18:54:15

At the beginning of the story, a father hunts in the jungle with six lively and lovely children with very different personalities. At first I really thought this story was similar to the tune of "Survival in the Wilderness"... This family lives and lives in the forest, and the big forest has become the back garden of their whole family. They run, climb, hunt, and BBQ as much as they want. , Do you want to be like this... A magical father used his own original method of education: to teach his children what he understands of sociology, literature, and philosophy (the youngest child looks like he is only four or five years old, just When I started to learn the profound knowledge of the Bill of Rights, I didn’t learn it in school. I was really convinced when I saw it.)

In the forest far away from the urban hustle and bustle, my father is trying to build a platonic one in his own way. "Ideal Kingdom", and strive to cultivate children into the best and most unique people. Under the guidance and training of my father, the six children have a physical and knowledge reserve that children of the same age can’t match. Unbroken, is our generation, whether our next generation is the beneficiary or the victim of this education, is there really an answer?) Does the

story develop here, does it feel amazing? This way of life is really unreasonable La! I thought that the whole story was extended freely in this context, but sad news came to the mothers of the children (during the treatment of depression in the city, she committed suicide because of the pain and suffering). As a devout Buddhist, her children’s mother’s last wish even called for "cremation of herself and flushing her ashes into the toilet." I was really shocked by this mother's last wish... I really responded to an old Chinese saying: It's not that one family doesn't enter a family. A magical couple gave birth to six lovely children. A magical father led his children to lead a detached life. I feel that his father wants to make himself and his family a legend.

So the family left the forest they were familiar with in order to fulfill their mother's last wish, and came to a strange and novel metropolis. The climax of our story also followed. The children's exploration and curiosity mentality was infinitely magnified in this strange metropolis, and all the contradictions and conflicts in the story came to the face.

I am very convinced of the way my father communicates with the children (it can be said that there are no taboos). Chinese parents are still very evasive and implicit in the education of gender relations, while Western parents are still very rational and objective in the education of their children. The answers to the gender questions raised by the children are simple, straightforward, and straightforward. Well, it makes me an adult feel a little embarrassed...Although so, I think this is worth learning for all Chinese parents, because parents are their children’s first teachers, and they have given them a lesson from childhood. A correct and healthy view of the sexes is the best protection and responsibility for children.

The father in the play is not spoiled or spoiled in the education of his children, especially in physical training, he even feels that he is training a team of special forces! Strict and even perverted education methods have cultivated children's brave and tenacious character, and strive to be pure and self-reliant. This is indeed the positive side of education. However, his father's excessive "returning to nature" concept made him regard the objective existence of civilized society as a scourge, completely separating the children from the real society, and precisely neglecting the cultivation and shaping of children's emotional intelligence. It is indeed the lack of the father’s education link. Education is originally a task completed by multiple roles of society, school, and family, and each link is indispensable. The child who lacks socialization, even though the body exercises to become a King Kong, but the spirit is weak as a grass, how to experience the temper of life and how to grow up healthily and comprehensively.

The story also analyzes a series of problems of children's lack of socialization from multiple angles:
1. The eldest son has a high IQ who masters four languages, but he cannot communicate with the girl normally. Behind the memorization of the Bill of Rights is a gap in knowledge that adidas has never heard of.
2. In order to win food, he led the children to stage a supermarket rescue scene, the theme of which was to steal food while taking advantage of the fire. Even illegal things can be tried as games. Is this a rhythm that pushes children into a fire pit?
3. When children are allowed to drink alcohol when they are minors, how can the healthy growth of children start?
4. Even let the daughter go to climb the roof for the so-called rescue plan... totally disregarding the child's personal safety!

All of the above are the willful, self-cleanliness education that this crazy father brings us. When children are faced with all kinds of new things in the city, the original ideology and reality have produced a strong contrast and discomfort. It is bound to break through the education barriers of their fathers to live the life they want. What children need is to be themselves. Instead of being the self that the father created, the war between the children and the father was about to start.

The story also tells us: in the advancement of modern industry and technological civilization, people enjoy the best material supply, medical services, convenient transportation, and social evolution. However, in this kind of urban life, we are increasingly lost in ourselves. Why? Because we want to pursue an ideal lifestyle that is adventurous, yearning for freedom, realizing ourselves, and rejecting the sense of social restraint. However, the pursuit of freedom is not anti-social, not blindly stubborn and extremely contemptuous of tradition. It is to effectively reconcile the contradiction between ideal and reality, so that the two can achieve a balanced and harmonious coexistence. Captain Fantastic is indeed magical, but we do not respect such a magical becoming a legend.

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Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Ben: It's a beautiful mistake. But a mistake.

  • [first lines]

    Ben: [family gathers around the slain deer] Today, the boy is dead. And in his place... is a man.

    Bo: [rips off a bloody bite of the offered morsel]