Little House on the Prairie

Subject: "FOUR EYES" Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:30 am

“Four Eyes”

Mary is beginning to do worse in school because she has a hard time reading the blackboard. When Mary first gets her new glasses, she really likes them. The other school children begin to tease her. She purposely loses her glasses, until she realizes that her teacher, who wears glasses, has a boyfriend.

Another one of my favorite episodes. Kids in school can be mean sometimes, I hated it when they made fun of Mary. Nobody would stick up for her, only Laura. Nellie would put crazy ideas into Mary’s head and her being young, it was easy to be influenced by it. I’m glad Ms. Beadle’s boyfriend came around when he did. It was perfect timing… Mary realized how silly she had been feeling, got her glasses and beat Nellie in the history examination. Heehee haha

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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:32 pm

I Like this Episode but i felt sorry for Mary
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:48 pm

I really liked this episode! Children can be so cruel.
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:09 pm

I love this episode! I was (and still am occasionally LOL), a "four eyes", but I never had anyone torment me as much as they were to Mary. I felt so bad for her, but I was glad that in the end, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone thought, and beat Nellie for the history award!
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:23 am

This episode always makes me want to cry.....I feel so sorry for Mary, esp. knowing that she'll go blind later....I do wish Laura had punched Willie for being so mean to Laura.
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:28 am

I like this episode a lot, too. I love it that Mary was able to put the taunting behind her, pull herself together and win! I have to wonder, though.........Don't they have any mirrors?? I mean, my stars! The child is gorgeous, and she's worried that a tiny pair of wire framed glasses are going to keep her from being attractive? Obviously, she had no clue as to how beautiful she was.

I LOVE,too, the fact that Laura stuck up for her sister. Good for her!
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:45 am

There is a little mistake in this epie...Mary seems to be suffering from myopy, since she wouldn't see what Miss beadle would write on the blackboard. She doesn't seem to have any problem reading from her books. THis is what happens in myopy. You are able to see close things, but experiences some difficulty with too far away ones; you sees them blurry or moved, and you only can see them neat when you narrows your eyelids a little. I know what I'm talking about for this is exactly my problem. Of course, glasses would correct this problem. But myopy exiges you wear your glasses all time, for you need them all time. It's different with people with only has some trouble when they needs to see close things. These needs their glasses ONLY FOR READING. So, they can go to the street without glasses, and only need to wear them in order to read.

Well...In the show, after this epie, Mary goes always around WITHOUT glasses, but when she enters to shcool and she prepares herself to read or to write, she dutifully puts her glasses on...So...Did they suffer myopy or hypermethropy? Think

Just another "Little House" contradiction...

Vanesa.
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:37 pm

Actually Mary wore her glasses all the time... when she first got them, she was excited talking to her Pa about the things she could see... the birds in the sky and I'm sure was amazed to realize that when looking at trees, it wasn't just a huge green thing that covered the trees but instead individual leaves Laughing

. There is a scene when Mary is outside walking to school, the day after she had gotten her glasses... she has them on and that is when Willie teased her the first time....

EDITED TO ADD: Oooops! I see what you mean Vanesa... you meant AFTER that episode.... and yeah, you're right... Mary doesn't seem to wear her glasses so much outside anymore...
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:17 am

Yes. Exactly! IN this epie, Mary acts exactly like a person with myopy troubles should act. I know it very well, for it was my problem. And I remember more than well being amazed about how trees really lookes when I was my glasses on, and now, I never put them off...only to bath and to sleep! GreenSmile

Of course, I don't need them to read.

I was speaking AFTER this episode, when she seems use them only to read...Oh, these writers! Think

Vanesa.
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:05 am

I like this one a lot. Mary's character developed quite a bit here. She let Nellie get to her, but, thanks in part to Miss Beadle's beau, learned what's really important. I liked how Charles went easy on Mary. He could have come down hard on her for lying about losing her glasses, but once he understood what happened and how badly Mary felt about lying, he decided that love and support were more important than punishment at the time.
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Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Sun May 18, 2008 7:02 pm

kids can be so mean..I got called four eyes in school!

Subject: Re: "FOUR EYES" Tue May 20, 2008 7:06 am