S.A.T. Style Reflective Essay : "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring"

In the film "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring", what lesson do you think the monk is trying to teach his young student? Reflectively relate this learning process to your own personal experience.




Telling what to do is not a teaching. Helping students to realize and fix the wrong thing is a real thing. The mok in the movie "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring", was a real teacher who helped the student to realize his fault by experiencing. One experience is better than hundred words of learning.

The little monk tied a stone to weak animals such as fish, frog and snake, not noticing how all creatures are important. The monk, his teacher saw what he was doing. And I predicted that nok will tell his boy how bad his behavior is. However, the mok didn't behave as I predicted. Rather than punishing his boy directly, he tied the stone to the boy sas the boy did. Then, the monk told his boy to untie all the animals. The boy realized how it is hard and suffering to carry stone everywhere. In addition, by seeing fish and snake dead by him, he noticed the imporance of all the creatures. If the mok just told the boy how his behavior is wrong and punished him, the little monk would not be able to realize himself. He might just notice the lesson for a moment because he didn't get the lesson himself. The monk did a really great job giving a lesson that how all the creatures are important and how we should treat them. He had a patient to wait for a boy to realize himself. Thus, the boy could learn himself. Actually, the boy cried when he saw snake died which shows he really felt bad and sorry.

The way that monk used to teach his boy was really impressive. I experienced a lot of teachers but there were not many who teached me in this way. They always told me what to do without helping me to realize my fault. Thus, the monk really did a great job teaching boy and helping him to notice his fault.