Beatty's words (Selso)

3. Captain Beatty says, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”  What power is he giving books?  Why do you think his society decided it was easier to ban books than to teach people to think?  Can you see this happening in our world?  Why or why not?

He is comparing a book to a gun. He is giving books as much power as a gun has. They probably decided that because people are less dangerous if they aren’t smart, a smart person could easily beat a person that is not smart at almost anything. Because the smart person can think, he or she can easily think of a plan to win or beat the other person a person that is not smart can’t think up a plan to win because he lacks that ability if he has never read before. Yes I can see it happening to our world but differently, instead of the fireman burning the books most people will just give up books on their own. A lot of people already don’t like reading it is mostly the younger people that do not like reading most of the older people do like reading. And if they do end up giving up on books the same thing will happen as in the book. They won’t be smart enough to survive on their own with out knowledge.

Trickster (Selso)

 

  The audience enjoys a character like puck because he/they are funny and because he can make them laugh. Puck’s role in the play is to make the play more funny/silly or lighten the play a bit so it won’t be all serious drama. He is a pranker kind of character; he play pranks on people and makes fun of some of them. He serve’s the purpose of making the play/movie not so serious or to make it funny, so the play wont just give off the serious kind of mood, but also the happy/funny kind of mood that most people enjoy. He is also there to make the audience laugh most people enjoy laughing and if a character can make them laugh a lot then they will like the play even more than they already do. 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind (Selso)

Helena says, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” This statement is true because love is not about how a person looks it is about what you think of that person and how that person acts. Like there could be a pretty girl and a not so pretty girl but the guy could love the second girl because of her impression and what he thinks of her not because of her looks. So the statement is saying that looks are not the reason someone would fall in love with a person but how they act around you or around any other person. That their personality is what is important not looks or money. That a person will fall in love with someone else because of how they act, their personality and their impression of others, and not because of how pretty someone is or how rich they are. Money does not make someone fall in love with someone else either, a person could be really really poor and someone could still fall in love with them if their personality was not bad towards others. Or someone could be really rich and if their personality is bad no one would fall in love with him/her because of how they treat other people, but if their personality is good someone might fall in love with him/her.