![]() ![]() The print is on the larger side, and each chapter has a beautiful illustration having to do with the chapter’s part in Dr. As I think about our current situation, this message resonated through to me. Throughout the book, there is information about Dr. It does not emphasize the well-known details as much as tell his life story. I also felt like there is more information shared in this book than others I have read on Dr. King personally or having just had a conversation with him. It left me with the feeling of knowing Dr. ![]() The point of view is much more personal and the stories are more detailed and intimate. King’s life, for example, his childhood desire someday to have/use big words. It has some of the stories many books have about Dr. Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior shares Dr. It is written in a professional way by a personal friend of Dr. This book was written because Ed Clayton thought it was important for young people to truly understand the contributions of Martin Luther King as well as who he really was. He eventually realized the importance of the SCLC and its work and stayed on, while Xernona worked with Coretta Scott King. Ed went to help but did not feel like he could live on a smaller salary. King asked Ed to work for Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to help with public relations, speech writing, press releases, and organizing press conferences. She shares the details of her family’s relationship with the Kings. This updated version has a foreword by Ed Clayton’s wife, Xernona Clayton. This was the first authorized biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Today I am going to share with you the updated version of the 1964 book, Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior written by Ed Clayton and illustrated by Donald Bermudez. I get the pleasure of kicking off this year’s Martin Luther King Day for Kids Blog Series (see below for details). If you click through and make a purchase, Multicultural Kid Blogs receives a small commission at no extra charge to you. King’s legacy by reading an updated version of a classic biography for young adults. Peaceful Warrior promotes a wholesome and inarguably beneficial ethos that probably won’t provide answers to all but the most impressionable youths, but our Western culture of binge-drinking hedonists and sardonic nihilists could arguably do with far more wise old gits encouraging kids to reach their full potential.This Martin Luther King Day, commemorate Dr. Any moral code that endorses a vegetarian diet also gets my vote. I’ve got to the point in my life where I’m not only incredibly cynical but content to be so, yet I’d genuinely love to see a generation of frustrated adolescents latch on to Millman’s values of discipline and abstinence. Peaceful Warrior is cheesy new age nonsense, then, but not one without an understandable appeal. I also found Dan to be that special breed of flawless, middle-classed everyman who exists only in fiction, and I do wonder how more disadvantaged teens might interpret Millman’s morality tale. ![]() Millman’s overbearing narration occasionally feels straight out of the Stan Lee era (every new scene is indicated by “Later in the locker room…” or “At the gym…”), but this is perhaps a by-product of the book’s film script origins. Haunted by lucid dreams and self doubts, Dan’s rite of passage under Socrates’ stern guidance is one that will appeal to many younger readers, and definitely has an 80s vibe to it that fans of The Karate Kid, released several years after Millman’s novel, will identify with.Īndrew Winegarner’s illustrations aren’t especially sophisticated, but there’s a clarity to his visual narrative that keeps the graphic novel an engaging enough read throughout. The semi-autobiographical tale of a gymnast (also named Dan) and his relationship with cantankerous gas station owner Socrates, Warrior follows the usual underdog formula, but laced with a mystical philosophy that progressively distances the plot from reality. Victor Salva’s 2006 movie adaptation was poorly received by critics and devoted readers alike, and this graphic novel is based on Millman’s original screenplay written in 1990. ![]() A spiritual coming of age drama with an apparent Carlos Castaneda influence, it’s evidently a beloved book (as a quick search online will validate) that has touched the heart of many a directionless youngster. Peaceful Warrior: The Graphic Novel is an adaptation of Dan Millman’s 1980 bestseller Way of the Peaceful Warrior. 2010, published by HJ Kramer & New World Library ![]()
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