Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Illustrated Man: Entry 2

Quote:
"He may have got into the machinery and fixed something."
"Peter doesn't know machinery."
"He's a wise one for ten. That I.Q. of his---"

Pg. 12

Comment:
(E) In this part of the book, the parents of the Hadley household are trying to figure out why the 'Nursery' won't change from the veldtand to anything else. They have to wait until there children come back from a fair. As they wait, the mother, Lydia, thinks that Peter changed the room settings. But the father, George, thinks it's impossible for him to do that. Lydia insists that it's possible because Peter is very smart for his age. Now that I think about it, it's kind of interesting of how his mother thinks he's above average but his father doesn't.

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