- Something From Nothing .

To Transform: to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
In the childrens story, "Something from Nothing", the mother is strongly pessimistic, seeing no use for the object pressented, and no willingness to look into it further. On the other hand, Grandpa is geatly optimistic, seeing greatness in the superficially useless. Grandpa is able to take what was once great, well used and now destroyed from societies perspective, and transform it into something new and possibly greater than it initially was. Its in this that Grandpa relates to a director. A good dirctor posseses the ability to transform a play, a story, or even a moment from something possibly overused and destroyed in the eyes of many into something new that can be seen as whole new phenomenon in the eyes of many. The overall transformation from the jacket through to the button is reflective of a stimulus. To start somewhere, and to continue to change it, and transform it into something more percise is much like use of a stimulus.  Phoebe Gilman, the author of the story "Something from Nothing", initially got the idea of the story from an old jewish folksong about a tailor who had transformed things of his own. She took the folksong, and transformed the story from one man recreating his old things to a story that channeled doubt, hope, and a little bit of magic. In this sense, Phoebe Gilman, as a writer, still reflects the perspective of a director.