Chapter 5 5.i see some beautiful images

One day Anthony had his birthday, and in the morning he found a toy on his plate at the dinner table.The toy is round, like a rolling pin, but thicker, but not too long.You shake it and it rattles softly.It has a hole at one end that you can look into.Dad told him it was a kaleidoscope. "What does kaleidoscope mean, Dad?" His father said: "This word is called kaleidoscope, which consists of three parts. Kalos is the prefix, which means beautiful; Eidos is the stem, which means image; Scopeo means I see. The three parts together become Kaleido-scope kaleidoscope." "I see," said Anthony, "I see beautiful pictures! Beautiful pictures I see!" He put his eyes on the peephole and saw some beautiful patterns, like a cathedral. A window through which sunlight comes.The toy turned in his hand, and the shape of the pattern rattled and changed. It was still the same pieces and the same colors, but somehow it was different.He felt that he could never get tired of looking at this colorful world.It's always changing patterns.He brought the kaleidoscope to the bed.He fell asleep and dreamed that he had just been born.The old wizard-like man in the picture book was there too.He put Anthony's first birthday present in the cradle.It was a little kaleidoscope through which he saw the world.As long as he doesn't break it, he can see an image of the world.That's something no one else can see.But if he smashes it, the image is forever lost.As the wizard walked away, he said, "You can shake it, but don't knock it out, you can't knock it out, you can only shake it."

Anthony woke up with those words still ringing in his ears.He grabbed the magical toy under the quilt and shouted that sentence loudly. Baba rushed over. "What's your name?" "Shake it, don't break it!" Anthony still yelled. "Look at you, are you dreaming and composing poetry?" Baba laughed and said. Anthony wrinkled his forehead, trying to recall the dream, but the dream had returned to where it came from, and he remembered nothing but the rhyme.All day he had been in the house, strutting about in the garden, his eyes on the kaleidoscope, singing, "Shake it, don't break it! Beautiful images I see!"