The Big Box

When the children go out of the box I think they stayed in the wild and stayed away from their parents so the parents don’t tell them to go back. The adults were afraid of the children to get crazy and get hurt. They were very protective about any child who goes crazy and get hurt. They didn’t want the parents to cry and get depressed about their child is not with them anymore.

Locks

After they get out of the box they will go to some different state so there parents don't know that they went missing until they go back on Wensday.

The big box

Question and Answer.
Q: When the children get free, where do they go?
A: I think they would live in nature and live together because they couldn't just live by themselvs. I would have run away and also live in nature and I would make and use tools.
Q: What were the adults afraid of?
A: I think the adults were afraid of the children hurting themselves or others. I would have been afraid of the kids going off and never coming back because they are so tied to nature.
Q: Why was there a box with three locks?
A: I think there was a box with three locks because the adults didn't wan't the children to have much freedom with nature. I also think that there was 3 locks because the children would have an idea of breacking out of the box.
Q: Why did the parents keep their children in a box?
A: I think the reason was that the parents couldn't think of anything creative so they chose a box. I think another reason is that the parents were lazy.
posted by: Kyle763

The big box

beavers

Dear Aris, The gifted program is a center for special education for kids who are above average instead of below average which is what most speical eduction is. It is called EEE for - I'm not sure what the letters are for. With The Big Brown Box we've been learning the ways you can figure out ways to solve patterns and ways to break things down because we have been breaking many boxes down. I thought it was cute with the little tiny beavers that are so adorable with their buck teeth . . it was cute that they were chewing a hole ain th box while the kids were tearing it down. When you look at the page that tells you about the butterfly and you look at Patty and she is holding the butterfly and it is the same with Liza . . .the thing thatthey are holding is the same thing that is in their room. The illustrations look like they were cut of things or they were water-colored. The sides of the box are cracking on the last page. The locks on the door are locks on their freedom. I like the line that says "If freedom is handled just your way then it's not my freedom or free." I really like that line because it's talking about how parents shouldn't just be allowed to take their freedom away. The parents aren't asking them what they want to do. Parents take the freedom away but it isn't their freedom to take away because freedom isn't a priveledge - it is a right. You don't have any power to take away anyone's rights.

From what the picture shows (the chart on the door) it looks like they never had any freedom to begin with. On the picture where Patty is with the adults and all of her things are on the table it shows pictures of people and nature. She really wants to have friends and play outside so she draws pictures of nature.

theory

Do you know why all the nature stuff was in the book? I don't have a very good idea but I have theory. So if you have a theory or a good idea please post me. My theory is that the children don't get to go out side and enjoy nature so there parents bring it to them.

my box

I think that it is wrong for children to be trapped in a box. I think that they should let the children go outside because it is bigger and better and people usaly get a lot of enorge out playing outside rather than being stuck in a box.


By: Sydney/friends☺

I think that the authors said that the door has three big locks because it sounds better than saying that the book has one big lock. What I think is cool is how they get the fake nature things; the sky picture, the butterfly under class and a fake fish and when there is genuine dirt and the recording of the sound of a seagull and the film of the fresh running brook. I think that the parents are trying to make up for the the things the kids are missing out on but they are doing it in the wrong way becasue they are giving them fakes things except for the dirt. What they really should do instead of keeping their kids in the box should let them out to run free. I think the kids should get out of the box and even if they get in trouble, I would rather get in trouble and be free. I think that the parents what the children to be perfect little angels and it is hard to be perfect little angels when you are trying to have fun so I think the parents stuck them in the bos so the kids could have a lot of fun and then come back and be the perfect little angles that the parents want them to be. The box is kind of like a prison because the kids can get in and out . . the can get in but they can't get out. How come the parents can get out but the kids can't It doesn't have a lid so why don't they climb out. At the end they are getting their freedom back because they are climbing out of the box and the box is falling apart and the beaver is chewing a hole in it and the rabbits are helping to tak the box down. The rabbits and the beavers are the two animals that are named every time . . .the rabbits will hope and the beavers will chew trees when they need them. This book is more about kids not getting what they deserved becasue the deserve to get to be kids. The kids will become adults and won't have a chance to be kids first. They talk about all the good things the kids do and the They say the rabbits and beaver line before there is always a line the sparrows will sing and the porpoises will scream and that is always about the kids' head and around it they were saying all the good things that kids do. I notice about the illustrations that some look like they have been cut from magazines and otehrs look like they have been printed off the computer and some look like they have been drawn by kids. I like the way the parents are always walking out the door and they are dressed all happy. They look all happy when they are outside and they look sad when they are in the big box.

The Big Box

Question: What was the box made out of?
I think it is made of rusted Steel because if it was cardboard the children would be albe to get out by themselves.
Question: Why didn't the children try to escape the box?
I think the children wanted to but they thought they might get in trouble.
Question: Why did the children think they would get in trouble?
I think the children would think their parents would be mad and look for them and put them back in the box.
I think the children should have thought the box was cardboard and brake the jar and use it to break out. I also think that the parents should have been more empathetic. What do you think?

The Big Box/ hotstuff

Do you think it is a cardboard box? I think it is a cardboard box. Do you think it was fair that the kids got stuck in the box and their parents only visited them every Wednesday night? I don't it's fair, becasue I am going to miss my grandmom and my mom. It wasn't nice for their parents and neighbors to make thsoe choices by giving them the rules to follow. Would you want to be those kids in that box with no nature only stuff that your mom and dad bought you? no that gust plain mean♥☺

the big brown box

The book the big brown box was pointless i didnt know the meaning well i think i do.i think the meaning was that the author was trying telling us that every kid or even the grown people can handle their freedom to some level a good or bad level.the kids were telling the grown people at the end of their punishment that the grown people were controlling the kids freedom not their own!the kids said our freedom is yours now because your controlling it now notm us and we should all control our own freedom not the grown people!!!

questions for The Greatest Power

Q1: Why did Ping invite children to the palace instead of adults?
Ans:
I think it's because that children are more creative than adults, and their thoughts are purer also, so ideas of what is the greatest power they came up with might be much closer to the real meaning of "Harmony".

Q2: All the children were competing to be the one chosen to be prime minister. Why were the children working with each other instead of competing with one another?
Ans:
Because those children wouldn't bother to share the credits from their hard-working,and it's easier to accomplish their goal with more people working together.

What's life?

I think because we are "alive", we can make a lot of implements to help ourself to living easier. For example, you can read my article when you're in USA but not in the same place with me. Computers are also the invention and it actually makes us live convenient.
So, we people can do a lot of things unless we're died.

the greatest power in the world

it's taken when we win the championship

there is great love between us

i thought

the greatest power in the world is

LOVE

it is the greatest power in the world

it make a life begin

make a girl turn into a mother who can give everything,do everything,...

just because LOVE

as we have seen

a mother can die for her children

a father can kill himself for his kids

a teacher can immolate herself for his students......

the reason they did these is nothing but LOVE

if there is no love

how can a life be continued?

if one is alived but living without love

and then why he exists

love isn't just between humans

it can also be found in the whole universe

a grass's growing is because of the sunshine's love

a flower's beauty is because of the soil's love......

so i think

great though a life is

LOVE is even more important

The Greatest Power

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I think Ping did invite the children to the palace. Because he maybe wants some inspiration from the children. And he thinks that children maybe will do better because they are younger and if they are chosen to have the greatest power in the world, they would be emperor for longer. And they make better laws for longer. They might have better things around in their heads.

I noticed on the cover that when you see the dragons going around in the circle it looks a lot like that symbol that is five bats are connected. I'm not quite sure what the five bats mean but when I saw it it reminded me of that bat symbol because the bats are like in arches like the dragons tails go down like where the bats head and body are. In the gifted program at our school there is a class on bats and that is what I'm taking and that's where I learned about the bat symbols because there are books that have that symobl on it. There is a national association for people who help endangerd bats and they adopted that as their symbol and that's where I learned about it When Sing was talking about how the money and ideas and armies fade I was thinking the same thing because when you think things are the greatest power they really aren't because they really don't last. If money were the greatest power and you spend it then you know longer have it and beauty fades and you don't have it because that is the natural thing and armies can't last forever. You can get more people but eventually you run out. I don't know if the kids were really working together but they shared ideas. When you think about it what happened was what they did . . . they were helping each other; they were all making the same kind of costumm but it never says they were really working together. The part of the seed that will grow into the plant is in the center . . . the rest of the seed is just protecting it. The author says it is nothing because she was comparing it to the heavens and the earth and there isn't really nothing . . .there is just like air and time majigs.

the greastest power

he Greatest Power was touching because it was about a little girl named Sing that said life is "the greatest power." One of the perspectives of the boys was that the greatest power was money and I disagree because what if like someone had two dollars and that was the highest amount of money and you had a dollar over and that would be three dollars and what could three dollars buy you. Money is not everything. There is more to life than money. Another perspective was the the girls said that beauty was the greatest power and I disagree to that too because some guards wouldn't like beauty that much, and they wouldn't do whatever you tell them to do,and you would be in a BIG JAM! I agree with Sing and not the others because you couldn't have money or beauty without life so sing has to be right about life being the greatest power because you wouldn't be reading this right now so think a about this and bye! J4Y-71993R5 FR35H Y0 P34C3 0U7!!!!!

The greatest power in the world

I think Emporer Ping chose children instead of Adults because children rush and find a ISNTANT solution without thinking and Adults already know the answer to Emperor Pings question. But Sing thought about it and she became the prime minester. I think the children worked together because they probably thought that they could sabatosh thier project. I think that sing didn't think armies, Money or technology were the most powerful thing in the world because all of those could perish. I think the Author was trying to say is that LIFE is the most powerful thing in the world because life will always be around in at least 1 thing.
By Kyle

Read the book as a Chinese.

There's a theory in Chinese culture: Life never stops in this world. There's something called "道" keeps everything works. And life also circulates with it.
Sounds a bit hard to think it through, right? We all feel the same way. To learn how ancient Chinese thought is part of our curriculum. Sometimes it's interesting to me, but I am a little tired of being confused with some frustrating tests.
Anyway, this stroy is an easier version, so I enjoy reading it. I DO believe that the greatest and the most miraculous power is LIFE. Money and beauty are concerned as the most important thing for people, but they fade away sooner or later. That's part of theory I believe in.
Maybe you can find more in books in the library of your school. Trust me, reading it helps you to think and learn how live a meaningful and happy life.

The greatest power

hello !! first i have to say sorry because i was disappear for two weeks because my boken computer. and i think it's a meaningful book. people now usually have a lot of desires for everything, we try our best to get what we want. In the book it says that money, appearance are external thing. Maybe someday we will lose it but except our lifes. The power of iife is the greatest power, do you think so?