Now I'm trying to think of parallel examples in fiction of young men learning to control their temper. It may partly just be that more temper was allowed in everybody? There's E. Nesbit's Accidental Magic, where the new kid at school, in response to being called names by the school bully, knocks him out with a punch He's sent to his room and threatened with expulsion (which causes him to run away, setting off the magic plot), but secretly the headmasters approve (as do the fellow students, less secretly), and the moral of the story is "don't tell everything you know", rather than anything about temper.
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Date: 2024-03-24 11:01 pm (UTC)Now I'm trying to think of parallel examples in fiction of young men learning to control their temper. It may partly just be that more temper was allowed in everybody? There's E. Nesbit's Accidental Magic, where the new kid at school, in response to being called names by the school bully, knocks him out with a punch He's sent to his room and threatened with expulsion (which causes him to run away, setting off the magic plot), but secretly the headmasters approve (as do the fellow students, less secretly), and the moral of the story is "don't tell everything you know", rather than anything about temper.