Reading Log 3 - Beauty and the Beast

Title: Beauty And The Beast Book Of The Film
Text Type: Extended text
Author: Parragon Publishing

"Beauty And The Beast Book Of The Film" was published by Parragon on 31st January 2017. Belle is so sick of her boring life in her little village town, until she becomes prisoner to a terrifying beast in a mysterious magical castle. But as time goes by she learns to look past the Beasts appearance and sees a very different side of him.

In my opinion I think the majority of people judge a person by their physical appearance without even realising that there doing it. For example in the book the reason the man becomes a Beast is because he won't let an old lady into his castle based on her appearance. He says "Why would I let someone like you enter my castle". The lady puts a curse on him as a punishment for judging someone by the way they look, the only way he can turn back into a human is if someone falls in love with him as a the Beast.

The Beast becomes very lonely and depressed, he gives up hope on becoming human again because he doesn't think it is possible for someone to love him the way he is. In my opinion i think the Beast is the most relatable character in the whole book because sometimes i think i have judged someone to quickly without even giving them a fair chance, also when i feel down and self conscious i have to remind myself that it really is whats on the inside that counts. Proof of this from the book is " If he could lean to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope.For who could ever learn to love a beast ?". Belle falls in love with the beast for who he really is and is super understanding about him previous actions, " She wanted him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within."

The beast definitely learnt his lesson about not judging a book by its cover. I think a quote that really sums up the way Belle pictured the beast is " When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. I think society could definitely learn something from this fairy tale because it has been proven that 93% of how someone judges you is based on non-verbal communication.