Forbidden City

Traveling to another country, and being situated in some dangerous situations opens ones eyes and helps ones gain experience. In the book Forbidden City by William Bell, Alexander jackson is a seventeen year old boy that travels with his father Ted who is a camera man that works for CBC news. In this novel Alexander Jackson goes from innocence to experience. He developes as a caring, responsible human being and grows up through his experience …

…before his journey is an ordinary teenage; however, when he goes to China and realizes the government corruption and students demonstration he sees the events wiser. After his journey he is not a typica teenage anymore; in addition, he is more sensitive and responsible. A human being should care about the others and similar to Alex that put his life in danger and smuggled the tapes out we have to be responsible for human being.