I choose to do this experiment in the living room because the night before when I was thinking about where to do the experiment, I found the living room to be the only place where it gets very dark. I had to shut of the printer light and WiFi modem light because those lights brighten the living room. I did this experiment at 8 pm. I put the blinds and curtains down but because there was still light coming from outside I had to put a blanket over the curtains which helped a lot. I was sitting in the middle of the living room on the rug having my back towards the window.

At first, I had a hard time positioning the candle, I was afraid of the candle burning me or me burning the papers. I used new candles, I tried to buy the longest candles I could’ve bought because, then I wouldn’t have to light the candles again and again and, plus they would last longer than the shorter candles. I bought a 2 packs of three candles. The reason why I bought so many was because I didn’t know how many candles I was going to use, turned out I only needed one. Which I was very surprised with because in the beginning I was sure I was going to finish at least one pack. My body position changed from sitting crisscrossed, to laying on my stomach and reading.

When I was experimenting on how to hold the candle, I found that holding the candle gave shadows which made it hard to read. It gave these dark circle shadows which caused me to look closer at the paper. As I was reading, the candle tilted and the melted wax fell on the paper (after that I just put the candle in front of me the whole time.) From which then I realized that people in the eighteenth century weren’t as privileged as we are today (of course) if, I was having a hard time reading because the melted wax fell on the paper I could’ve just printed out another page also we have better paper and ink quality so it wasn’t that hard to read through the melted wax part. However back in the day paper quality didn’t seem to good and the script writings was already very hard to read so melted wax on the writings was probably very hard to read. In 30 min I was able to read all of chapter 3.  I was scared doing this experiment I was getting weird ghost thoughts. But I enjoyed doing this blog because I would have never done this candle experiment. I am very thankful of the digital devices we have today because, we don’t have to go through the hassle of dealing with candle reading I think if I had to continue reading like this I would get very annoyed.