Jerry is the second child of his parents Mr and Mrs Banfield, they lived in a small town in paris, France. Jerry mother is a fashion designer by profession and his father is a school teacher in his (jerry) school. Jerry elder brother Peter was the direct opposite of him, in the sense that Jerry plays more, hate going to school and unserious with book works.
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Jerry is either with his mum helping her with some designs or playing outside alone or with his friends. This always worries his father that he keeps purnishing almost everytimd to be serious with his studies but all to no avail. Jerry father been a teacher find it hard to reason that why would other student who he teaches do well and learn, but his own child seems to be the dummy. This has given both parents deep thought and they have gobe to the extent of making him spend extra hours at school but all has yield same results.
Jerry in person is a kind of person who is fun filled at all time except when scolded by his parents. His academic works has always been a nightmare to him, that whenever his mother wakes him up to get ready for school has made him feel like a purnishment. Even in school when his friends go to the library for various stuff, he stays in the class room or go to a silent corner to do some drawings.
He always come as the best student in fine arts. But his father never care about this since his lacking critically in other fields. What worries his father most is him going to high school, if he will be able to cope or will get worse over there since he wont be seeing him regularly unlike his doing now in the primary school where his a teacher. His father has decided to take strong steps in this situation.
One afternoon his father called him and his mother that he has just left a councillor's office and he is sticking to thevadvice the councillor gave him regarding the future of Jerry. This brought a little shock to his mother but more shock to Jerry, then his mother asked "what suggestion are you talking about?" in a confused tone. His father answered and said "that the problem of Jerry is him seeing us around him everytime, that he is relaxed always because he believed we will always be with him" this got the mother more nosy to what his father wants to do about Jerry situation, as the conversation co tinued Jerry father finally let it out as he said "Jerry will be leaving this house next week to continue his education in a boarding school" tears rolled from his mother cheek as his father stands up to enter inside the house, Jerry burst into a loud cry saying "daddy please i dont want to go to boarding school!!!" His mother remains speechless knowing there is nothing she can do about the scenerio while Jerry continued crying more aloud.
Jerry night mare has finally come to reality as his father gave him a box and took the other one which contains all he will be needing for his stay in the boarding school. His mother watched from the window side of her room as he was been followed by his father into the car, tears keep rolling down her cheek as Jerry was more closed to her and also assist her in doing designs. She walked into his room as she continued crying after waving goodbye to him from the window. She found out some drawings which he has made, this make her to miss him more as his drawings has always wowed her
Finally Jerry has started a new school, which means he has to look for new friends and adapt to the new system. But his problem remained same and even worst now because his mother is not available to pet him when scolded, all his teachers has seen him as a dull fellow and they shouldn't waste time in sending him out of the school. Jerry keep crying everytime his been sent out of class due to his inability to comprehend what his been taught.
But on a faithful day his art teacher saw him crying outside, knowing well that that's one his student base on the fact that his drawings and paintings are always exceptional during the fine art classes. He drew close to him and asked what the problem was? Jerry narrated all the story to the teacher and told him he wish there was nothing like school.
But his teacher took the matter up and approach his other teachers and asked why Jerry was doing badly in all their courses, all gave an answer relating to the boy been unserious and dull, that such child is not needed in their school. But the the teacher tried to explain gow talented Jerry was to them in area of art, but none was ready to listen to him, they all said once the exam time comes and jerry doesnt pass he should be sent home to meet his parents. But the art teacher didn't give up, instead he created time for both of them and he find out that art was only thing Jerry understood. So the now decided to take Jerry as a personal student after writing to the management for permission and to his parents also. Now the art teacher gathered all the syllabus of the subjects Jerry was to take and started using art to explain to him. For instance he uses pictures of various objects to teach him arithmetics by counting various number of objects in one picture and add it up with something similar in another picture. This continued for long and Jerry was picking up as fast as possible with him also having more reference to his drawings.
Some weeks later it was time for competitions; the national school art competition, the national school essay competition, the national school mathematics competition and so on. The school has sent her students to represent them in various feeds. Jerry was picked by his art teacher to represent them in the art category, though this was a big struggle for the teacher to get the approval of the school since it was only one student they can send. But finally Jerry is in the competition with his art teacher as his coach and other various subject teacher acting as coach to the selected students. The competition was on as it begins with the essay competition and to the maths and gradually to arts and so on till all the competition category was completed.
Now its time for results to be announced as all teachers,principals, educational delegates, and parents who were invited was sitted to hear the results. Same procedure of commencing the competition was followed in announcing the result from essay writing and so on.
It was a big shock to Jerry school after most of the results was called and non of theur student has been announced in the 1st place category only 3rd place in mathematics knowing fully well to be the biggest and welk equipped school in the country. And it was time for the art competitio result to be called, and to everyone surprise Jerry has given the school its first 1st place as he was announced the winner of the art category competition, his parents, teachers, fellow students and delegates applaud him as he took a slow step of been shy to receive his award and display the painting the audience. Behold it was the status of liberty he drew when it was shown to the audience.
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So he was given the mic to say some words about his drawingand he muttered words and say some things about children been given liberty to follow their talent.
So did life continued for Jerry as he won various competitions including foreign hosted. Jerry was seen as an inspiration to many people both in the country and beyond.
Today the most famous potrait in the world was drawn by Jerry Banfield which is the Monalisa potrait
