At the beginning of the fun they had , what does margie write in her diary and why
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MARGIE even wrote about it that night in her diary.On the page headed 17 May 2157, she wrote, “TodayTommy found a real book!”
Margie is the main character of the story. She is a girl of 11 years of age. She writes a diary on the night of 17th May 2157. (Right now, we are living in 2018. As told earlier, the story is set in the future and it is set in the year 2157, so almost one and a half century that is 140 years from now). At that time, Margie writes an entry in her diary and she writes that ‘Tommy found a real book’ and she is feeling so strange because in her times, real books do not exist. They only have e-books, the virtual books. So, books in the format of print on paper are extinct and so, Margie is astonished to see a real book.
It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.
Margie is reminded of her grandfather. He told her that his grandfather studied all the books that were printed on paper. So, this kind of a book is historical or ancient for them. Something which they cannot believe, they can’t imagine.
the fun they had
They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to — on a screen, you know.
crinkly: with many folds or lines, something that is crushed.
Margie is talking about the book that Tommy had found. She says that the pages of the book had turned yellow, and they had been crushed as it was very old. The children found it very funny to read the words which stood still. (Now what does it mean by that words that stood still? As the words were printed on the pages, they did not move). On the other hand, the books that Margie and Tommy read were online (e-books). So, in the e-books how it happens, the text keeps on moving as your screen moves but it was different in the books printed on paper.
And then when they turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it had had when they read it the first time.
This was a very strange experience for these children. When you have a book, which is printed on paper, whenever you flip the pages, you to get to see the same thing written on the pages. On the other hand, in an e-book, the text keeps on changing on the screen. The screen is same. You have the same screen in front of you, but the text keeps on changing. So, whenever you go back the text is different.
“Gee,” said Tommy, “what a waste. When you’re through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.”
Tommy disliked the printed book.He said that it was a waste because he felt that whenever you complete reading a book, you have to throw it away. You cannot have some different story written on the same book. On the contrary, he felt that the Computer screen was very good, because the same screen had shown him many books and still he could read many more on it.He would not have to throw that screen away when once he had read a particular story.
“Same with mine,” said Margie. She was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebooks as Tommy had.He was thirteen.
Margie agreed with Tommy opinion. Margie was 11 years of age and she has not read as many books as Tommy had because Tommy was older to Margie, he was thirteen years of age.
She said, “Where did you find it?”
Margie asked Tommy that where had he found the printed book.
“In my house.” He pointed without looking,because he was busy reading. “In the attic”.
attic: a space just below the roof, used as a storeroom
Tommy replied to Margie that he found the printer book in the storeroom of his house. He was so busy reading the book that he did not remove his glance from the book.
“What’s it about?”
Margie asked that what the book was about.
“School”
Tommy replied that the book was about school. About going to school, about the life at school.
Explanation:
Answer:
At the beginning of the story, Margie wrote a diary on the night of 17th May, 2157.
She wrote in her diary that Tommy found a real book and she was feeling very strange because the real books do not exist at that time. They only have e-books and virtual books. At that time, the
books with printed text on the papers were extinct. So, Margie was astonished to see a real book.
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