“THE END DEPENDS UPON THE BEGINNING”

“THE EMPEROR’S CLUB” is an interesting story of a group of students in the history class of St. Benedict’s Academy. I found out that his movie is based on a short story by Ethan Canin, “The Palace Thief”. Eventhough in the end, Mr. Hundert felt he has fail as a teacher, he says his other students taught him back. While watching the movie, I really think Mr Bell is such a spoilt brat and a nuisance. I admire how Mr Hundert managed to keep quiet and tolerate such a behavior although lucky Mr Hundert made it a point not to let Mr Bell win by cheating in the “Mr. Julius Caesar”. It is such a pity that even after 25 years; Mr Bell still had the guts to cheat in the rematch of “Mr. Julius Caesar”. However, eventhough the final three participants was not suppose to be Mr. Bell but instead Mr. Blythe, I would say that Mr. Bell did not do wrong by providing a chance to Mr Bell to show that he has talent. Mr. Bell only did not see that opportunity coming and did not make full use of it. One thing that I have learnt from this movie is that as a teacher if we cannot change one person for the better, there are many others that we have changed and over the time, there are many more people that we can change.