Analysis Of The First Grader

The movie The First Grader is based on a true story of an inspirational older man named Kimant Ng’ang’a Maruge who perspired to learn how to read. He became a great inspiration to a new generation to get educated and an example for younger generations to appreciate and embrace education. Maruge advised the children from his school to pursue education because one who doesn’t know how to read is “useless.” Moreover, he lived up to his advice and learned how to read, becoming an example of someone who never gives up and an emblem for the idea of loving learning until the very end. Maruge was from a village that was raided by the British Colonial Rule in 1963 and he suffered through the murders of his wife and two children, and followed up with having to endure excruciating torture as a prisoner because he fought back for his people’s land. Maruge received a letter from the president of Kenya which he couldn’t read. Hearing the news of the government granting free education “for all,” Maruge went to a nearby school for children to ask for free education; determined to learn welcoming greeting rather, he was greeted by a teacher with “we can’t waste it [education] on an old man with one foot on the grave… Go home and rest in peace.” Maruge replied, “I am not dead… I want to learn to read.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t accepted the first or the second or the third time he went to the school. Finally, after buying his school uniform, the head teacher accepted him with an

He gives a heroic impression based on his revolutionary acts against his people’s invasion and also leaves an impression of that of a smart man. He knows that education is important and the fact that he seeks and appreciates it makes him a very wise man. He has inspired an older generation who didn’t have an opportunity of education to get educated and has inspired the young to appreciate education and to “become someone