Literature - Dear Mr Kilmer (Moral Value)
Using the details from the novel, write about an important moral value that you have learnt. (15 marks) The allegory Dear Mr Kilmer from the hands and mind of Anne Schraff brings its readers on an emotional roller coaster, as it explores friendship, love, patriotism and many other quintessential elements a story needs. Based on this novel that I have studied, there is one moral value that no reader of this story fails to interpret. It is none other than standing up to your own principles . Anne Schraff has beautifully made this moral value tangible in the protagonist, Richard Knight. Richard though is just a 15-year-old teenager, is mature enough to stand for his right and to be able to juxtapose the good and the bad. One example that shows this moral value in Richard is when Gus oppresses Richard by ill-treating him with nicknames such as 'Small Fry' for failing to shoot a dear. Gus also asks Richard to leave his...