"A Story of a Country Boy" by Lao Hsiang is the story of a family who sends a

young boy to school and seems only to have bad results.

Summary of the story:

The story starts out by saying that in the country a nine-year old boy is at least
half as useful as an adult because he can help with several chores, so the family
didn't want to send him to school. However, there was a proclamation that stated
that any boy over six years old had to go or a family member would have to go
to jail.

The boy goes to school and he brings books back, which the teacher has told
him cost money. The family is concerned because they will have to go without to
raise enough money for the books, and they are already losing work from
sending the boy to school. They tell him that he will have to work very hard. He
goes to school the next day before dawn to work hard, and finds that the school
is not open yet. He is told to go home. He does, and his family is angry at him for
not working hard. He goes on a Sunday and is told that they don't have school
on Sunday, and they don't understand why that is either.

The pictures in the book aren't anything that they can relate to, and the text of
the book says "this is my mama" and "this is my papa" with pictures that are
definitely not anyone they know. The boy is sent to ask the teacher whose
mama this is. The book also says things like "the ox tends the fire," and the boy
learns later that they are learning about things that are made up.

The boys read about a tea party and want to have one, so they agree to each
contribute twenty cents so that they can send away for oranges and other exotic
foods it mentions, and all of their families condemn them as selfish because they
are asking for money for a frivolity.

The last straw comes when they boy is reading in his book "In my family I have a
papa, a mama, a brother, and a sister." He is studying hard and repeating his
reading often, and the grandmother gets really upset because she is not
included in the family. The boy's father tells her not to be angry anymore, and
that he would rather go to jail than to let him read this type of book anymore.

Where can you get the short story about Country Boy Quits school
by Lai Hsaing?
Answer . what is the theme of this story? . a country boy quits school

Who is the writer of the story a country boy quits schooling?

The writer of the story, 'A Country Boy Quits School' is Lai Hsaing. This short story is about a
Chinese boy that is ordered to go to school or his parents will have to go to jail.

What is the summary of 'The Boy who cried Wolf'?

The basic summary to the story is: A boy got bored watching sheep, and wanted excitement. So
he called "Wolf!" The villagers came running, got mad at the boy because it was a prank, and
left. The next day the boy did the same thing. The villagers got really mad at the boy, because it
was a trick. The next day, a wolf came and attacked the sheep. The boy cried, "Wolf!" but the
villagers didn't believe him, and no one came to help. The wolf gobbled up all the sheep. There
was a boy and he went outside and told his family, 'There's a wolf outside!' they came out and
saw he was just playing a trick on them. He did it again and shouted,
'Look! There's a wolf outside! They came out terrified but he was just playing a trick this time.
Again, there really was a wolf outside but his family didn't come out because they just thought it
was another trick. The boy got eaten. Hello!

What is the short story about Country Boy Quits School by Lai Hsaing?
"A Country Boy Quits School" is a short story by Lai Hsiang. It is a social satire about a family
forced to send their son to school, because if they do not they will face time in jail. The boy gets
a book at school with simple sentences and pictures, but he interprets them literally and it
causes much confusion within the home.

Will you recommend the story country boy quits school to anyone?
No, because even a country boy should not quit his education... It's important. How do you
expect to find a decent job w/h out some schooling?

How do you quit school?

Usually if you work you can get a permit of some sort to take to your teachers to sign and it's for
like a time off of school for work.....(that's the best I could do but you can also drop out) - Gaige
Caraway

What is the point of view in 'a country boy quits school'?

Lao Hsaing's short story "A Country Boy Quits School" is told from the third-person point of
view. The narrator in this point of view refers to the other characters by their names or other
third personpronouns.

What is a summary of the boy who lost his face?

He lost his face den he tried 2 suicides himself he got run over then he died and he lived his
dead life with no facer

Age to quit school?

In New York a minor must be 17 before then can legally quit school. However, it is best to just
finish school since at 17 you are in your final year.

Country boy quits school?

Country Boy Quits School is a short story by Lai Hsiang. It is a social satire that tells the story
of a family forced to send their son to school because they will go to jail if they do not. The boy
gets a simple book at school, but interprets it literally, which causes problems at home.

What is the moral lesson in the story The Country Boy Quits School?

Country Boy Quits School shows the importance of education to our lives. It clearly
demonstrates how poor education may result to chaos and confusion to someone's life,
even family. Just as much as it issues how significant education is, this story also
addresses how not just books and teachers define education. The story Generosity on
the other hand, shows the very irony of life during those times. No matter how hard one
works, he is easily brought down by someone with a higher class, with no effort at all.
We clearly see how large the gap between people of different classes really is.
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TITLE OF THE STORY

Country Boy Quits School

NAME OF THE AUTHOR

Lao Hsiang (1899-1966) his pen name is Lao Shê as a novelist, was born in Peking (now
Beijing). He has been called as one of China's best modern writers. The prolific output of this
humorist, patriot, and realist also included poetry, several volumes of short stories (many of
which contained humor and featured the townspeople of Beijing), and many plays.

SETTING

PLACES

· China- on the first sentence of the third paragraph, it states there if how the father of a boy
amazes the books’ contents and exclaims that the people in the pictures are not Chinese so it
implies to me that it is the place of that nationality that is being mentioned.

· School- so many times the teacher is made mention in this place of having to do with the
teaching to the boy, Baldy, Hsiao Lin and others, aside from that the family decided that the
boy must be taken out of this place believing that the teaching style is inappropriate for their
culture.

· House- a place where a boy has been studying and reads his books aloud which every
dweller is able to hear clearly but makes them mad due to their wrong translation as well as the
interpretation.

TIME

Based on information provided by one of Lao Hsiang translators, Howard Goldblatt, it appears
that Lao began writing short stories around the early/mid-1920s and had published several large
collections by the mid-1930s.

MAIN CHARACTERS

The boy who is hardworking, even at an early age of 8 years old he begins to help his family for
their daily subsistence. He gains only a little learning in school due to his parents’ ignorance for
they (parents) themselves are illiterate.

SUMMARY

The story is about a poor Chinese family which has a boy of an early age, toiling every day for a
living just to help augmenting the other basic needs of their family. The family is forced to send
this boy to school following the City Ordinance, to cite: An official proclamation had been issued
in the city to the effect that unless a boy over six years of age is sent to school, some adult in
the family will go to jail. Good thing there is a law that compels this boy to study so that it could
 have been a chance for him to acquire knowledge too but sooner or later he misses that mere
chance due to the intervention of his family’s poor insight.

The English illustrations in books and the literal meaning they are using for translation lead to
much confusion and misunderstanding in their household which everyone is holding grudges
against each other, which in fact without basis at all because their judgment is only based on
their own unreasonable perception, which the true intention of the content of the books is the
other way around. The intention is for the betterment of the reader’s life.

As the boy studies he frequently reads these books at the top of his lungs and it brings
discomfort to the ears of every family member every time they hear this due to their own
inaccurate interpretation of the foreign system of education. This incident always results to
chaos and misunderstanding so that one day the father decided that these books will never be
read again by the boy because his family is certain that the school is not teaching the proper
way so the boy is finally pulled out of the school in which the father chooses to be rather in jail
than destroying the family for continuously sending a boy to school. It only demonstrates that
the entire family lacks in education itself because there is no doubt that they are seeing things
differently which is out of context.

LESSON LEARNED

I learned that education is very important to us so that we can improve and do better with our
lives. If we are well-equipped, we could be flexible enough to all the changes around us.
Education is what we become in the future.

However, to those people who are not fortunate enough to have a chance to go to school due to
financial reason or might be the government is not very particular on the matter pertaining to
education. It is sad to know that these people are not able to cope up well with what is
happening around them. Like the family in this story, they are incapable to do things to make
their lives more comfortable. They lack of education because China at that time was more rigid
with its communist doctrine. In order to grip its people especially the masses, it is unwise for the
government to introduce education to them because rebels come from the rank of educated
bracket of society.

PERSONAL REACTIONS

I felt disappointed about the boy’s ordeal, because of this different culture that is being
introduced by the educational system, the children are the ones who are affected. Society
begins from a place called family, but in many instances families are part of different cultures
which bring conflicts to children that they have to confront. The family supposes to have the big
role in encouraging and to guide these children in order to adapt between two different cultures
or more. But it saddens me that the family especially the father who has the first hand to design
the future of his son, is forcing this boy to be ignorant about other cultures. They make it clear
that the boy should not learn any culture aside from Chinese and it is absurd because
everything else in school to them is abnormal. Anyway the writing style of the author is satiric
yet full of lessons.