For the Merchant of Venice project Jesse and I decide to do a storybook. In the story book we had to choose which lines to include and how we were going to adapt them into a dialogue for a storybook. We decided to use the whole book and summarize what had happened in each scene, for some scenes we only needed one or two pages but for the court scene we used more. We tried to put the most important parts of the book in there, but at the same time I feel like we excluded some important things. Some of the things we excluded were Aragon, and a lot of Salarino and Salanio’s lines that they said, we did include some of what they said, but I don’t think we covered them enough because they are the gossipers that let everyone know what else is going
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In the beginning Antonio has lost his toy ships, this is in reference to his ships crashing and him losing all his money, which in our story was candy. Portia’s mansion was her palace and the eligible boys was her suitors, and her problem with them all having cooties was her listing off all of their annoying qualities of why she couldn’t marry them. Mr. Duke was the teacher, in place of a judge, or the duke. Shylock wanting to give Antonio a timeout was because Shylock wanted to kill him by taking a pound of flesh from him. The red and blue classes show the separation between the Jews and the Christians. Jessica is Shylock’s sister in our version because he is way to young to have a daughter. The lucky pencils were the rings, one stolen by Jessica from her father, and the other two given to their husbands by Portia and Nerissa, which were then given back. The money was a representation of the caskets the quarter worth the most for the gold casket, the nickel for the silver, and the penny for the lead, which was the least eye catching and worthless. Morocco was from a different school, but in the play he was really from another country. Becoming recess buddies was when the couples got married. When Launcelot and Jessica are talking he tells her the prize of pork is going to rise if Lorenzo keeps converting Christians, this is represented by his lamenting of it going to become harder for him to receive a golden
In the beginning Antonio has lost his toy ships, this is in reference to his ships crashing and him losing all his money, which in our story was candy. Portia’s mansion was her palace and the eligible boys was her suitors, and her problem with them all having cooties was her listing off all of their annoying qualities of why she couldn’t marry them. Mr. Duke was the teacher, in place of a judge, or the duke. Shylock wanting to give Antonio a timeout was because Shylock wanted to kill him by taking a pound of flesh from him. The red and blue classes show the separation between the Jews and the Christians. Jessica is Shylock’s sister in our version because he is way to young to have a daughter. The lucky pencils were the rings, one stolen by Jessica from her father, and the other two given to their husbands by Portia and Nerissa, which were then given back. The money was a representation of the caskets the quarter worth the most for the gold casket, the nickel for the silver, and the penny for the lead, which was the least eye catching and worthless. Morocco was from a different school, but in the play he was really from another country. Becoming recess buddies was when the couples got married. When Launcelot and Jessica are talking he tells her the prize of pork is going to rise if Lorenzo keeps converting Christians, this is represented by his lamenting of it going to become harder for him to receive a golden