Compare the book Pobby and Dingan with the Movie called Opal Dream

Both the book “Pobby and Dingan” and the movie “Opal Dream” were very good. I read the book and watched the movie two times. Between the two, I liked the book better.

             The story in the movie moved faster than it did in the book. It was too fast.  When I was watching the first part of the movie and saw Kellyanne playing with Pobby and Dingan, I would think about when I was reading the book and how the book talked about her friends. When I was reading the book, Kellyanne playing with her imaginary friends seemed different, but not crazy. It seemed like when some people play with their stuffed animal friends. In the movie, she looked a little crazy playing with her friends. The book did not make her seem crazy like she seemed in the movie.

              Also, in the book, Ashmol changing how he felt about Pobby and Dingan was slower. He started to worry about his sister and how he felt about Pobby and Dingan started to change. In the book, the change seemed to happen very fast. I liked the way that it happened in the book better.

              I liked it how in the book, Ashmol went around planning the funeral for Pobby and Dingan. I liked that the book talked about how he went to see Mr. Dan Dunkley about having a funeral, then he went to talk to the preacher, and then he talked to Humph about making invitations to the funeral. Ashmol put the invitations all over the town. In the movie, Ashmol invited people to the funeral at the end of his father’s trial and the man on the radio was talking about the funeral.

              The end of the book was better than the end of the movie too. In the movie, Ashmol was nice to say good things about Pobby and Dingan, but I thought that what the preacher said in the book was better. I liked that in the movie, we did not know that Kellyanne died and was buried with Pobby and Dingan, but both the book and the movie were sad at the end.

Blog #8 The Life of Galileo - Review

The play was about a very important person in science. Galileo discovered many things in science and invented the telescope, but he had a hard life. He was poor, and people did not agree with some of the things that he found out. Many people seemed to think that he was crazy.

            This is a hard story to tell in a play, but the play was very good. I liked the person who played Galileo. He is a very good actor. He made me feel like he was angry because people would not believe him about what he had found in science. The clothes worn during the play were good, but I don’t know how people dressed during that time in history. There were times when I could not understand what the actors were saying, because they were talking too fast.

I think that the people from the Church were very bad because they would not even look at what Galileo had found. They just said that he was wrong because what he had found did not agree with what the Church believed. After he got into trouble with the Church, he was arrested. Later, he died. After a while, the Church had to tell people that Galileo had been right.

I would recommend people see the play, but they should read about Galileo first. Reading about Galileo will help you understand what is going on in the play.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht, the German poet and playwright was born on February 10, 1989 and died on August 14, 1956. His name when he was born was Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht. He lived in Bavaria (part of Germany), where he was born, until 1924. He studied medicine and worked in an army hospital. He wrote his first play, “Baal”, in 1923.

He became a Communist because he did not like how things had become after the end of World War I. There were some high social classes that had more money and thought that they were better than regular people.  Since he was a Communist, it was not good for him to be in Germany at that time. He left Germany and lived in Scandinavia, then in the United States. In Germany, his books were burned, and he lost his citizenship. He stayed in the United States until 1947, then he went back to Europe.

After writing his first play in 1923, he continued to write, wherever he was. He wrote many plays and poems. He also did some movies. In 1943, he wrote the play, "The Life of Galileo".

The Life of Galileo

Galileo Galilei was born in Italy in 1564 and was the first of six children. He had three children of his own, but was never married. He became a famous scientist and astronomer, and is sometimes called “The Father of Modern Science”, because his work was so important.

He taught mathematics and physics, and discovered many things in science. It was believed that if something floats in water, it is because of its flat shape. Galileo figured out that if something floats in water, it is because of the weight of the thing compared to the weight of the same volume of water. He wrote studies on motion and falling objects and developed the universal law of acceleration. He published a study proving that the moon was not flat and smooth, like people believed, but was round. There were people who believed that the Earth was the center of the solar system. This was what the Catholic Church believed too. Galileo proved that the sun was the center of the solar system and got into big trouble with the Catholic Church.

The leaders of the Catholic Church were so upset with Galileo that they put him on trial. He was found guilty of heresy (having a belief different from what the Church believed) and sentenced to house arrest. He was ordered to not have any visitors or publish any of his work outside Italy. He ignored the order.

Galileo died in 1642. Over time, his science work was proven to be correct. And, the leaders of the Catholic Church admitted that Galileo had been right all along.

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