Reading Log 5!

Title: Young Samurai: The way of the warrior.

Time finished:  Mon, 25th of September.

Text type: Novel.

Young Samurai: The way of the warrior is a novel written by Chris Bradford. Through out this book we follow a young boy named Jack Fletcher on his journey to a new land!

In this book something I personally found amusing was how the protagonist had to learn a whole new language. Now, this certainly wouldn't seem amusing to anyone who hasn't read the book, but, to me it was. The writer did an excellent job with properly portraying the character and their reactions to certain things. Like for instance, Jack Fletchers language teacher. His language teacher was of Spanish decent and he was a soldier, that somehow ended up becoming really close to lord of the place he was staying at. This place being somewhere in Japan -Japan being the setting of this here book. Back to the main point! Jack Fletcher was of British decent. This story was set back in a time where war was everywhere! And who do you think happened to be at war at that time? None other than the Spanish with the British. Now, I found this all amusing because of the relationship between these two. The Spanish man's distain towards the English boy was truly great, and like I mentioned earlier, it was portrayed great as well. A quote I think describes this perfectly is when the Spanish man tells Jack too... "Now shut up English boy and let us get on with the lesson!" I feel like this perfectly relates to our current society, I mean. There's always going to be someone you hate, but! You just sadly have to get along with them. Another slightly interesting thing about this is just, I wonder how hard it must've been for two different races to communicate right when they first made contact with eachother? Back when they had no knowledge of eachothers different languages at all.

Much like the previous point I made, there's something else that also involved language/race that caught my attention. That of course being the obsurd amount Japanese people hating on the protagonist. Now, I know this was accurate to the time, and that back then Japanese men and woman would have despised foreigners, however! I feel like some of the distain towards the character wasn't needed, like him constantly getting bullied by other members of the school he eventually ended up going to. I genuinely think that this point relates perfectly to our current society in a good way. Kind off. I'd like to think that the last couple of generations have been the least racist as of yet, and generally speaking, everyone accepts everyone. Now, don't get me wrong, though. Racism still happens, and it happens a lot. It's just I feel Ike the things happening in Novels and stuff from the past have greatly been fixed in recent years. I personally love the fact that this has happened! Unifying every race and slowly getting to that stage of equality is awesome. So this point relates to our current society, but in a different form than usually.