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 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.