kaexin,
Wah. Okay, I don't he will fully understand it though. I mean, it probably can be read as a storybook but he won't understand the allegory. I don't know about the allegory back when I read the book too. I must have read it under 15 years old also. Maybe even in primary school too cuz that is a literature text for my cousins who I lived with, there aren't many books around back then. So I read macbeth, romeo and juliet, to kill a mocking bird, lord of the flies, and wuxia stories back when I'm in primary school. Haha. My cousin even frighten me about the witch chant in Macbeth. She said if I read that at night, the witches will come for me. Then that night, there happened to be a thunderstorm and I couldn't sleep because I kept repeating the chant in my head! But actually come to think of it, I don't fully understand the stories. In their time, there's also religious education so I even read about buddhism cuz my cousin chose buddhism. I read a great many books without really understanding them back then. But I think it really helped my languages though. Like how I can read traditional chinese because most of the wuxia stories are written in traditional chinese. And I never needed to study chinese. I can draw in class all the time and still score A, haha.
For some reason, even as a child, I prefer reading over other activities. I don't watch TV much from Primary 6 onwards. Even now, I only occasionally glance at the TV because other family members watches it and irritate them when I asked them questions (because I din watch the whole thing), LOL. But hor, at least I remember the shows that I have watched, even if I watch only parts of it. Hb can completely forget that he ever watched the show. Like he go and buy a movie which he actually fell asleep watching when we rent it last time and then fell asleep while watching it again... haizz. I think I'm the type who learn by listening, not very visual type of person so I prefer reading to seeing.