Traveling to another country, and being situated in some dangerous situations opens ones eyes and helps ones gain experience. In the book Forbidden City by William Bell, Alexander jackson is a seventeen year old boy that travels with his father Ted who is a camera man that works for CBC news. In this novel Alexander Jackson goes from innocence to experience. He developes as a caring, responsible human being and grows up through his experience …showed first 75 words of 836 total…

…showed last 75 words of 836 total…before his journey is an ordinary teenage; however, when he goes to China and realizes the government corruption and students demonstration he sees the events wiser. After his journey he is not a typica teenage anymore; in addition, he is more sensitive and responsible. A human being should care about the others and similar to Alex that put his life in danger and smuggled the tapes out we have to be responsible for human being.