Middle School-Language Arts

Student Script
Student Teacher #2

Say:	Make sure to highlight any word or idea that you do not understand.

     When at last he hit upon the idea of a change in size, what came to him first was the thought of doubling the height and bulk of all the bad people. That would make them inefficient. They couldn't handle delicate scientific instruments or typewriters or adding machines or telephone dials. In time they would expire from bigness, like the dinosaurs in the article in the Sunday paper. But they might first run wild, with their great weight and strength, and hurt people. Mr. Crangle wouldn't have liked that. He hated violence.

     Half-size people, it was true, might be able to manipulate some of the machines. They could also be dangerous. But it would take them a long time to develop tools and weapons to their scale, and think how ridiculous they would be, meanwhile, with their clothes twice too big and their hats falling down over their ears.

     At 3:54, Mr. Crangle smiled at the thought of how ridiculous they would be.

     "Nut," pet said.

     He reached up and gave her one, his eyes still on the clock.