The Naruto Fever

My son, Salman (now almost 10), is enjoying the Naruto’s series on TV. Every evening he spends about an hour, watching his favourite series. His sister, Lia, and his brother, Akbar, often accompany him watching the series, for they’re also like the story. And when the children start to watch the TV seriously, I try to join them. Soon, I get involved in the story of the ninja boy Naruto Uzumaki and his fiends Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Shikamaru Nara etc. Sasuke and Naruto become Salman’s idol. Lia likes the ponytail hair Shikamaru and Akbar becomes the fan of Kakashi Hatake, Naruto’s teacher. Actually it’s interesting story. When we’re watching the series, the scene of the fights are not interesting to me. But not for Salman. He often watchs the fists in detail and then practices them. One day he’s watching the series, beside him I was reading the newspaper. The episode was about the fight of Naruto and Ghara. Salman had watched this episode on the other TV chanel. ‘Look mommy, look at the fist….’. I put the newspaper in my lap and watched the TV, Ghara started to attack Naruto. ‘What fist?’, I asked him. ‘Wait for a moment, mommy, look when he fights back Ghara….look…see…it’s incredible fist…’. For me it’s just ordinary fist. When the show was over, Salman started to practice the fists, he fought against the sofa. I sometimes wonder what’s in the mind of ten years old boy…..