Reflection on movie "The Road Home"

This movie starts with the discussion between the protagonist and the villagers of Sanhetun about the arrangement of the protagonist's father's death. They were figuring out the way to take the dead body back as the mother insists on carrying the dead all the way from the hospital in the city to home in the village as it is an old tradition and custom to follow.

Though the movie focused on the little romance between the protagonist's parents when they were young. However, the impact of the protagonist's father as a teacher to the students is the part where stirred my thought.

As a teacher came from city, I think the protagonist's father adapted himself well with the life in a village. He didn't discriminate the villagers who are poor and uneducated. When the villagers decided to build a classroom for the young kids to study, the teacher involved himself in helping to build the classroom. He didn't distant himself from the villagers, however, he tried to know them, he walked the students back home and also accepted the offer of having meal at their house everyday. He displayed a good image as a teacher and I guess that's why he left a enormous impact on the villagers.

I think the protagonist's father-the teacher didn't even realize that he had such a numerous influence or the long-term effects that he left to the students. When the ceremony of bringing him back to the village was carried, his students came from other cities, some even traveled from faraway city,Guangzhou came to join the funeral even it was in the winter. Also, in the end, the students paid the undertakers and all the expenses. I think these acts not only explained the students' love and respect to the teacher, it also tells us that the teacher everlasting influence within the students which constrained the students to go back to the village and paid the last respect to the teacher.

This reveals that as a teacher, we will never know how much and how deep the long-term effects we have had to the students' life. It actually encourages me to be a good teacher, the one that inspire and motivate the students. I really wish that I can help the students especially those have been through the dark side of life.