recieve the air from a deceased relative

melinda is denying the fact that she was a worm (metaphor for evolution) because she is afraid of worms, which shows that she dosent know what she is talking about, she is going on what she has been told in the past. the seperation between church and state is supposed to be complete seperation, at least when used in a court of law or stuff like that, of course in this play the judge is completly misusing his power, and breaking the law by using the bible to determine whether or not that guy is teaching blasphemy in school. this play is riddled with ignorance, between ignorant remarks, and actions. perhaps the biggest quantity of ignorance that can be examined in this play is the part where the judge takes out the bible and starts reading it to the court room. not only is this inconstitutional, but it is also ignorant, ignorant because it dosent give an explanation, it hardly has anything to do with the trial, and it proves that the judge is unfairly biased. the trial, as is stated in act 1 scene 1, not only puts cates on trial, but also puts the town on trial. the trial takes place in a small redneckish town, and is supposed to draw a lot of attention to it. there is a theme that glutony is ignorant, and it isnt good. it makes the gluton to appear to be very ignorant and wanting to draw attention toi himself. i think the author may have made the disconnect between the trial and play to somewhat exagerate things so that it might make more sense, or show how ridiculous some viewpoints may have been

"Adults" like Children.

Why does the story begin with a conversation between two children. What is the significance about their conversation? Melinda and Howard have a conversation while Howard is playing with worms that were brought in from the rain. He makes Melinda mad when he tells her that her and her family were once worms or blobs of jelly when the whole world was covered in water. The significance of this converstaion is to show how even adults try to make the different theories of how life cam to be on earth like a competition. They cant agree or be tolerant of other people's opinios. This conversation between two kids shows how adults act like children when it comes to agreeing. It shows how blindly some people can believe in religion, or in a scientific theorie, like children can believe in Santa Clause.