Are Arts to Teach Us?
Beta: Can’t we think about looking at paintings too?
Delta: What about theater?
Gamma: Music?
Kappa: Movies!
Alpha: Fashion shows, heh heh.
Teacher: Actually . . .
Delta: I don’t think it matters!
Alpha: How is that? A book clearly teaches you. You understand it.
However, when you listen to music, you can imagine whatever
you want!
Beta: Alpha, what have you learned from Tom Sawyer?
Kappa: How to tease and beat boys in clean clothes, ha ha.
Delta: How to court girls.
Gamma: To paint fences.
Beta: To take a friend’s punishment.
Alpha: See? You guys only look at the dark side of what Tom was
doing!
Kappa: Come on, Alpha, we do not.
Alpha: Why do you mention the bad things then?
Delta: To make you think, Alpha.
Alpha: Make yourself!
Beta: We are trying. Seriously though, I feel like we’re not quite on
track yet.
Kappa: Interesting. I have always liked Tom Sawyer from the very
moment I got to know him. And I knew, of course, about all these
awful things he did, and I’ve never even thought of criticizing him!
Alpha: You fell in love with him, didn’t you?
Kappa: Something like that.
Delta: Yeah, girls love him.
Alpha: I was teasin’, Kappa.
Kappa: But I’m serious.
Delta: You’re always serious.
Kappa: Stop it, Delta. This is different.
Beta: You know what? I’m kinda surprised. I feel like Tom Sawyer is
becoming alive in my mind right now.
