Literacy Blog #6

Today's blog we are supposed to pick the book cover we think is this most effective for the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. I chose this book cover because I thought that one of the most occuring things to happen in the play was the characters falling asleep in the forest. I also thought it was one of the most important things that happened, because without any of the characters falling asleep in the forest, Puck wouldn't have been able to put the love potion from the flower on their eyes, and they wouldn't have fallen in love with other people, and that is the part of the novel that makes everything intersting. The potion from the flower seemed to be one of the most important parts of the novel. I thought the cover was really effective because I thought the forest in the background looked very magical, and fit the theme of the setting in the forest. I also recognized the fairies in the forest, but I couldn't tell who the person sleeping was. I think the person sleeping is supposed to be Titania, because she is surrounded by a lot of fairies. Another reason I thought this book cover was really effective, was because on the cover of the book, it shows fairies, and I think it is showing the scene in the book where Titania is falling asleep, and it looks like the scene where they are singing her to sleep; "Sing me now asleep ; Then to your offices and let me rest." (II. ii 7-8). Another reason I think it's Titania is because in the book she mentions that she is sleeping on flowers when she is woken up by Bottom singing; "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?" (III. i 118-119) and on the cover she is sleeping on flowers. That is why I think this is the most effective cover.

Literacy Blog #5

I am connecting the book A Midsummer Night's Dream to the novel I am reading now, the second book to the "Matched" series called "Crossed". A Midsummer Night's Dream reminds me a lot of the book I'm reading right now, because there is forbidden love, and a lot of drama. In A Midsummer Night's dream, when Hermia decides to run away with Lysander, it reminded me of how Cassia plans to run away to find Ky, because she loves him. There is also a lot of forbidden love, because the society matched her up with Xander, but she fell in love with Ky, who was the "wrong guy". Hermia and Lysander are in love, and Demetrius loves Hermia, but she doesn't love him back. In the book Crossed, Cassia and Ky are in love, and Xander loves Cassia, but she doesn't love him back. Another similarity, is Hermia was supposed to marry Demetrius, and Cassia was supposed to marry Xander and they both fell in love with someone they weren't supposed to. The difference between the two books, is that Hermia's dad does not want her to marry Lysander, but Cassia's parents support her decision. Another difference is that Hermia doesn't like Demetrius at all, but Cassia still loves Xander in a different way, because they are best friends. The books, also both have a lot of poetry in them. Shakespeare writes some of the lines in the book as poetry, and in Crossed, they mention a lot of lines from poems. The two books both have a certain person or a lot of people that don't want the two characters to be together. Hermia's dad doesn't want Hermia and Lysander to be in love, and she has to always obey her father, or else she is making the wrong choice. Cassia was matched with Xander, and the society sees it as a crime for her to fall in love with someone who isn't her match.