Totto-chan / Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

 Word Count: 231

Parker Greene

From Totto-chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

" … Ryo-chan was sort of guardian angel who always came to the rescue and helped when anyone was in trouble. Ryo-chan could do anything. He never said much, and only smiled, but he always knew just what to do. When Totto-chan fell into the cesspool, it was Ryo-chan who came to her resuce straight away, and washed her off without so much as a grumble. 

' Let's give Ryo-chan a rousing, send-off tea party. ' said the head master. " (pg. 474)

 Totto-chan is broken up into three parts where we get to learn that Tomoe, the school that the children attended for a while, was a school that wanted to try new learning methods and made sure that the community was tight knit. The quote above is showing how even the relationship between the students and staff are in Tomoe which is much different than most schools we think of today, with the lack of care for most students. The fact that the kids would be throwing a farewell party for the school janitor is intersting to me, as I never knew any of my school's janitors at all, let alone enough to throw a farewell party. I find that Tomoe is a very intersting school based off of its very collaborative learning trying to get everyone to learn together and become closer friends.