Literacy Blog Number 6

The cover that I think best describes the play A Midsummer Nights Dream would be the last choice:

I chose this picture out of the other ones because this one actually has someone (Hermia probably)sleeping on the cover, so it fits the title, A Midsummer Nights Dream. None of the other choices has a person sleeping. This cover also shows the forest at night in summer and there is fairies around. This is all very fitting because as we know, the setting is in the forest. I think that the image that is on the cover is part from earlier in the play when Hermia and Lysander run off together. Hermia tells Lysander to sleep further away from her, so that is why he is not in the picture. There are fairies around Hermia because they live in the forest. This is where the major problems happen in the play because Puck puts the flower juice on Lysander, thinking that he is Demetrius. The author might have chose this picture as the cover because of this; because the drama picks up here, thus is important to the story line. So in conclusion, this is the best cover for A Midsummer Night's Dream because the image is important to the story and makes sense to the story.
 

Literary Blog #5

   I finished reading Glass and started reading a book that I bought during spring break.  It is called Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson.  This is what the cover looks like:

   It is about this woman named Christine who is in her forties who looses her memory every time she falls asleep, so when she wakes up, she still thinks she is in her twenties.  Christine wakes up and doesn't remember her husband, her location, friends, etc.  She has been waking up confused for the last twenty so years of her life. 
   This book is similar to the play A Midsummer Night's Dream (written by Shakespeare) because in the play, there is so many people who are in love with someone but that person doesn't love them back.  Hermia is supposed to marry Demetrius but Lysander and Hermia are in love with each other.  And Demetrius loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius.  Crazy isn't it?  Then one character Puck has a magic flower that if squirted in someones eyes, the first thing they see they will fall in love with.  The juice gets on many peoples eyes, so the whole love "triangle" gets even more messed up.  Because of it Lysander decides his true love isn't Hermia anymore but Helena instead.
    This reminds me of in Before I Go To Sleep how whenever Christine wakes up she doesn't remember her husband, Ben.  Ben can be Hermia and Lysander and be Christine.  Christine has been sprayed with the "love juice" but instead of loving the first thing she sees and not caring about Ben she doesn't remember him.  Just like Lysander gets sprayed with the juice and doesn't have feelings for Hermia.  Ben and Hermia probably have very similar feelings, except Ben is forgotten every night for the last twenty or so years.  He tells Christine everything that he said the day before to her, who he is, who he is etc.  So doing this for so long not only does he have incredible patience and love for his wife, but also it must hurt him.  His wife can't remember that they are married!  It is the same feeling with Hermia because the love of her life completely turns his back to her and runs after someone else.