Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a teacher at the prestigious St. Benedicts School for boys. “Mr. Hundert,” as his students call him, believes that History is the best teacher of character. His class, “Western Civilization: the Greeks and the Romans,” is one of the most popular at the school. Mr. Hundert hopes to impart “the highest standards of statesmanship, civic virtue, character…” onto America’s young elite. Though the privileged are often bound to be spoiled and, no matter what the lessons of History say, certain students will never really learn the importance of honesty and virtue.
Personality… upstanding and idealistic, yet humble. Despite his grand didactic tone in the classroom, Mr. Hundert is a modest man at heart: “I am a teacher, simply that.” It is his life’s mission to educate and instruct the future leaders of America – though there are bound to be some students who are incapable of heeding his word.
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William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
