Shot types
The camera looks down on the boy when the owner finds him in his house to show the importance and authority he has over him due to him having more money and higher class. The camera continues to look down on him when the owner has taken the boy into the study and is talking to him.
Mis en Scene
The boy is given dirty old boots for his birthday which he is best pleased at. This shows the poorness of the family and how they are so happy with such little things.
You can tell this is set in an old era due to the clothes being quite worn and layered.
Also, the look on the father's face when the boy could read the newspaper was very angry - they don't have enough money for education but say 'they don't need it'.
After the child breaks in to the big, white mansion (which contrasts against his own house), the owner finds him and the child doesn't run away, but recites a part of the Lord's Prayer 'Forgive us our trespasses' to ask for forgiveness. He says it in a sort of showing-off manner to say as though 'what do you expect? I am a poor boy and you are a rich man'.
Editing
Sound
Music at beginning is in a minor key and shows a boy walking in dirty clothes representing lower class, poor beings living in a small shed-like, wooden hut.
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