Summary of Two Gentlemen of VERONA

The story revolves around the two boys named Nicola and Jacopo who do numerous things to earn money only to pay for their sister's treatment who suffers from tuberculosis of the spine.

The story begins with the narrator driving down the foothills of the Alps. Here is when he first encounters the two brothers selling wild strawberries. Even after the driver forbade the narrator to buy the wild fruits, he bought the biggest basket and drove towards the town. This scene emphasizes on the first step of growing intimacy between the narrator and the two boys.
Next day, the boys were found shining shoes in the public square. This amazed the narrator. Here is when they revealed the fact that they did numerous kinds of things to earn money. Here, the narrator is shown to develop a soft corner for them in his heart. He finds them to be innocent, serious, pleasant and earnest.
The boys are very useful for the narrator. They are very willing to satisfy all that the narrator required. They were also found selling newspapers by the narrator one stormy night. One day, when the narrator asked if he could help them in any way they said they would be very grateful if they got a lift to the nearby village Poleta. Although it didn't come in the narrator's way he took them there. The boys got down in a building and asked the author to wait in a nearby café while they would be back within an hour.
Eagerness led the narrator to follow the boys up to a place which was actually a hospital. On peeping through a room led by a nurse, he realized that the boys were talking to a girl who resembled them. He did not feel like intruding and thus asked the nurse the details about the boys. This is when the nurse told him there heart rendering story about their father being killed in a war and home being destroyed in a war and their sister suffering from tuberculosis. The brothers lived in a shelter and literally starved only so that they could pay for their sister's treatment. Those keeping a secret and helping their sister showed that war had not shaken their spirit. They were noble and gentle and great human beings in their own special yet subtle way. This story distinctly talks about how true the amplification says: “All that glitters is not gold,” in turn explaining the fact that appearances are deceptive.

A.J. Cronin has very well carved the idea of 'selfless help' and explained the importance of dedication towards relationships in the story Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Article on Moral/Value Education

“Need and Importance of Moral Education in Schools”

It is a big question for the schools nowadays that how to manipulate or develop moral values among the students. How and when moral values should be taught to the students? It is going to be a big question for the schools when schools have been facing different types of behavioral problems among the students.

Need of Moral Education:

However it is a big problem for many schools that students are morally not perfect and they behave irresponsible. The lack in moral values and the unhealthy attitudes of students is a main reason of many problems in several schools. It would be a very good reason for teaching moral education in school.  Now many schools need to improve in student’s moral education.

Advantages of Moral Education:

Many schools have been searching the reasons of decline in moral values and they have been working for developing good moral values among the students. However moral values are integrated part of the education and it is great emphasized in almost all countries. Generally Moral Education is not a specific subject for schools but it is taught under different subjects like languages, literature, supplementary reading books etc. Value Education is taught as a separate subject like Moral Science in many schools.

Schools have been doing several efforts to develop the moral values among the students. Nowadays, the syllabus is also designed with such type of combination of many moral valued stories, poems and many lessons. Sometimes textbooks include many inspirational lessons about great personalities so that students may learn from their life.

It is true that textbooks and syllabus fulfill the needs of moral values but when a teacher wants to teach moral values he needs some other things also. Sometimes he uses moral sayings, moral stories, and different type’s cultural activities to enhance the level of moral education. Cultural activities are very useful to develop and to teach the moral lesson.

How a teacher can use cultural activities to teach the moral values? Actually in many countries there are many festivals, days and occasions for any special idea or special event. When schools organize these festivals they have great and innovative opportunities to impart various lessons. ‘Children assembly’ is a great example for this. It is a very famous and well known cultural activity for schools as it displays and develops discipline among student.

Teaching moral education is not a particular topic but it can be taught under various programs and activities such as Annual Function, Fete, etc. Teachers can use different plays and activities to demonstrate various moral lessons. Cultural activities can play a great role in this. Beside cultural activities there are many interesting activities for providing moral education like daily prayer where teachers can arrange a daily activity as “The thought of the day”.