I had chosen to read the cover of the original children's book, Curious George for English 125 after the curiousness became contagious. Curious George is always on the run and always getting in trouble. George's curiosity taking him all over different industries and places is no coincidence.

The author, H.A. Rey, was on the run himself. The recurring fight or flight response felt by the reader was an autobiographical detail of Rey. He ran and escaped from the Nazi's during World War II. Rey and his wife Margret, who later helped to write Curious George, fled their home in Paris when the German army advanced. The two of them rode bicycles through Southern France with the manuscripts for these books.

Curious George, according to a Canadian Social Worker Adam PB Smith, educates children in cultures that support positive thinking and evidence-based approaches instead of cultures that praise anti-oppression and thought. Luca Bartolini, a child neurologist, says Curious George teaches children realism instead of sugar coating situations with magic.

Curious George was what my dad chose to read to me every night before bed and what I eventually chose to read myself. Through all of George's adventures, I was inspired to experiment with science, engineer rocket ships with my couch pillows, and go through my math flashcards. I am now at the University of Michigan where I study science every day in a real laboratory in the hospital.

Both officers are looking upward to acknowledge their authority while George is looking straight forward at the future. The background is a bright yellow, representing positive outcomes and comfort. The authority in the picture is holding the telephone George used to call the fire department when there was no emergency.

I believe the authority is holding the phone to represent the freedom of speech authority like the German army takes away from innocent lives of people like George who are different than most of the United States population. George may obey his authority by going to his jail cell until his sentence over, but instead, George dealt with it by escaping to become his own authority. The evidence in this cover demands an argument between the obedience to the system and rebellion of your ideas.

This is an argument very current to our world. Freedom of speech is what keeps democracy fresh, rivetting, and purposeful, so it needs to be used.