Things you didn't know about Batman

The final exam for my class was to watch Batman Begins and analyze its portrayal of the Hero's Journey. Because I'm that kind of teacher.

I'm not even gonna break it down and give you little snippets because this time, there's a clear winner. The thing about the essay that follows is that the student who wrote it is a good writer. She once wrote an excuse for why her paper was late that was moving and interesting and well written and I totally fell for it even though it was complete bullshit. So the girl can spin a tale.

Unfortunately she can't pay attention to anything for more than five minutes, even a comic book movie with Christian Bale.

Here is her essay:

Well, this film named "Batman Begins" by "Henri Ducart" started in the city of Gotham. It's about this guy that his name is Bruce Wayne, born in a special birth but he doesn't know it nor his parents. He was born to be Batman but his fear are bats. He is so afraid of bats that one day he fell into this hole where alot of bats lived and then he called his parents for help to rescue him from the bats. But then after he was rescued there happened something like a crush so then both of his parents had to die. So then he stayed orphan and some guy named R'as Al Ghul started to take him and train him and guided him to the world of Batman. He got this special gift from R'as Al Ghul after he got left orphan then he started to know that the world was bad and because of this we could tell that this film does follow the Hero's Journey because he had to go through a lot of trouble and overcome his fear in order to obtain that special gift of being "Batman."

Furthermore when he becomes "Batman" he rescues this lady named Rachel the one he likes and the one he felt was his goddess figure. He rescued her from some gas poison some guy threw at her and Bruce helped her out. He also meets this guy who burns down the building and tell him and reminds him all about his parents and then he gets sad. Also when he rescues the lady, the lady gets happyand she asks the guy for his name but he doesn't tell her

And that's it. That's the end. I even let her take the paper to her next class to finish it but that's all there is.

I should also add that this is the first essay the child has turned in all semester - I assigned four. She also came up to me at the beginning of the exam to tell me that she didn't take good notes when I went over the material and can I explain it again? And there were two other questions she could have answered.

And there were very good essays this time because overall my students are improving but nobody wants to read the good ones. They're not as much fun.

Anyway, react appropriately.