The Crucible

From reading The Crucible, I gained a different perspective. I thought that the play brought about many emotions, but didn’t put them together as collectively as seeing the play itself did. I especially had seen this when watching the character of John Proctor. His acting evoked a lot of anger and slight hysteria. I saw this more in the play than in the reading. I felt his character had come alive more than in just reading the play. Also, in the play I felt some sort of constant fear while watching. It seemed as if the fear was playing into the lives of everyone in the town. No one knew when someone was going to be persecuted as a witch, and through the actors performances I was able to see such dramatic interpretations on what was happening. I enjoyed the costumes for the performance as well. I believe they tied into the theme of what was going on in the certain situation. The women dressed modestly and seemed to be innocent, but by the actor’s performance I was able to see the true character come out. I thought the Stevens Point cast and crew did a very good job in portraying the performance of The Crucible.

Where's Stevie?

One ironically bright and sunny day, our investigative team heard the shocking news: Stevie Pointer had been kidnapped. We had been left a note of hints from the kidnapper on where the beloved dog might be along with a word scramble on his location. To find him, we needed to follow the clues and find the letters.  As soon as we heard the news, we bolted out the door to where our clues were primarily located, the Learning Resource Center at the University of Stevens Point Wisconsin campus. When we arrived on the scene, we bolted to the third floor because we heard loud screaming. To our surprise, the third floor was just the holding area of the libraries CD collection. The screaming just turned out to be the Rolling Stones CD.

Even though Stevie was nowhere to be found, our investigative team was lucky enough to find the letter we were looking for: R. Xab ferociously scribbled down the first letter as Ellie was standing by the window looking at the next clue. Kayla was in the corner listening into a conversation between two suspicious people. The two people were gossiping over the breaking news that the kidnapper was on the sixth floor planning his escape route. When Kayla heard this, she flew to the investigative team and told them. Xab ran to the elevator and pressed the button as fast as he could. When the team arrived to the sixth floor, they spotted the kidnapper near the U.S. government publications by disability services. Ellie whipped out her investigative squirt gun and began to bolt towards the kidnapper. To her dismay, it wasn’t the kidnapper but just an im”poster.” But really it was just a poster.

The poster read the next two letters for our clues: SI. After this, Kayla let out a high pitched scream due to hearing a gun shot. The team ran down to the fifth floor and began looking for possible suspects. Xab heard an orangutan screaming and began running towards the noise. The team, unfortunately, got lost in the midst of the excitement. They even stopped to ask a janitor if he had seen or heard the orangutan. He had not and left them with a weird look. Ellie then screamed “I FOUND IT!” The rest of the team followed her to where the orangutan was: the study cages. The orangutan told the team that he had spotted Stevie, but we had to leave quickly or he would be in real danger. He gave them their letter: H and told them to find Stevie and comeback for him later.

The team sped to the fourth floor, and was bombarded by other investigative teams. Luckily, our team was helped and given the next letter: C.

On fourth floor we were told that Stevie had been spotted on second. The team rushed to the second floor and began looking for Stevie. Although it wasn’t him, they found his newspaper and with help from the librarian were given our next letter: E.

Xab had the brilliant idea that maybe Stevie had gotten lost in the library and ran to the first floor museum. Ellie got lost in the trance of the beautiful eggs shown.

While she was doing that Kayla then spotted the next clue, with the letter: A. The team then thought maybe if they knew what Stevie looked like they would find him. So, they headed to the encyclopedia section of the library and looked at the description of an English Pointer.

 With the help of another investigative team, they were able to get the next letter: V. Then, with all the kidnapper’s clues found, the team began to unscramble the letters. Turned out to be ARCHIVES. The team ran to fifth floor, and excitedly found the missing Pointer. Unfortunately, he was dead, but the team was given his head in remembrance of him. The team then went to bed. The end.