As a poor village child, the speaker imagines what their life would be like if they were born into royalty instead. They would have many servants and comforts. When older, they would become king and work to help their subjects by building infrastructure like roads, schools, and hospitals using tax money in a responsible way. As king, they would avoid war and maintain peace with neighboring countries through treaties. However, the speaker concludes it is better to remain in their poor family with loving family and teachers and lead a simple life rather than shoulder the great responsibilities of being king.
As a poor village child, the speaker imagines what their life would be like if they were born into royalty instead. They would have many servants and comforts. When older, they would become king and work to help their subjects by building infrastructure like roads, schools, and hospitals using tax money in a responsible way. As king, they would avoid war and maintain peace with neighboring countries through treaties. However, the speaker concludes it is better to remain in their poor family with loving family and teachers and lead a simple life rather than shoulder the great responsibilities of being king.
As a poor village child, the speaker imagines what their life would be like if they were born into royalty instead. They would have many servants and comforts. When older, they would become king and work to help their subjects by building infrastructure like roads, schools, and hospitals using tax money in a responsible way. As king, they would avoid war and maintain peace with neighboring countries through treaties. However, the speaker concludes it is better to remain in their poor family with loving family and teachers and lead a simple life rather than shoulder the great responsibilities of being king.
Good morning, honourable judges, teahers and friends.
The title for my speech is If I were a king, I would
I am a poor child, born in a middle-class family. My life may look monotonous, because everyday I am engaged in attending the same type of work, such as reading, writing, going to school, and playing with friends and brothers and sisters; yet I fell that my life is simple, and I cannot say that I am unhappy. But if I were born a prince in a royal family, my lifestyle would have been completely different from what I am today in this village, lying in a mud house with my poor parents who live from hand to mouth. In a royal family, I would have many servants, always busy to look after my comforts. They were on their toes, just to listen to my orders and comply with my wishes. And when I would grow up, I would ascend the throne and become a king. As a good king, I would be required to shoulder many responsibilities. I would try to become an ideal ruler. I would have levied taxes according to the financial capacity of my subjects, it would be my duty to look after their safety and protection. After keeping a reasonable portion of the total taxes for the expenditures of administration, I would have spent the remaining part for the welfare of my subjects, by way of building new roads, bridges, schools and colleges, hospitals and similar other charitable institutions which would be used by my subjects. As a king, I would have no desire to expand my kingdom, and hence would not go for a war with any other country. I would try to maintain good relation with my neighbouring countries. And if necessary, I would sign a treaty of peace for the better existence of all of us. As an ideal king, I would do anything that is necessary for the welfare of my kingdom. But at the moment, I feel that it is better not to become a king who has to shoulder so many responsibilities and perform so many important duties in honour of the crown. So I think, it is better to remain as I am here in a poor family with my loving parents, brothers, and sisters, and also the affectionate teachers of my school, and lead a simple life among the simple and common folk around me.
The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.
Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin