The Right and the Duty of Civilization (Motif)
The Teacher says to the children that they are representatives of a primitive race and Europeans are representatives of the superior one, so Creoles should be thankful that Europeans came and set them free from the darkness of obscurity and gave them knowledge. According to him, now they have to forget their language and traditions because it is barbarian and non-historic and learn all what French, the superior race, will tell them to learn in order to be an educated and civilized nation.
School – the Desirable Place (Symbol)
School is a mysterious place for a little boy; he longs to go there because all his brothers and sisters do that and they are so happy when they come back home. He also wants to feel this happiness, but when he finally went there he understood that it is not what he wanted – the Teacher was rude and he had to speak only French but he didn’t even know it. It is not a desirable place for him anymore, all that he loved in school were after-school games.
Studying – as Travelling (Symbol)
The Teacher says to his pupils that they have a tremendous opportunity to study, to find out more about the world around them, about great nations like French, to learn the language and history of civilization and how it had been developing. He emphasizes that studying is the traveling along the path of wisdom and only those who are hardworking and attentive can walk along this path.
