"The Bamboo Flute" by Gary Disher is a novel about a boy named Paul in the 1930s, the life of a boy in the 1930s would be very different to the life of a boy in the 2000s. I am going to show the difference in our lives by comparing ways to me and Paul before school, our lives at school & ways of getting to school. In the 1930s, getting to school was …showed first 75 words of 338 total…

…showed last 75 words of 338 total…children. Schooling in the 1930s was a lot more difficult and painful to the schooling now. In conclusion, I have to say I have a less difficult life compared to Paul's life because we have more technology and the kids never get hit by the teacher anymore. Paul's life was difficult when he had to do a lot more physical work to be done by hand where as we have machines to do the job.