woodcuts are a form of printmaking where you carve an image in a block of wood and ink of the wood to run through a press and transfer onto paper. the benefit of this is that you can print the block many times, making multiple prints of the same image. (sort of like a stamp)
they are there to guide you to the right path they tell you to not make the same mistakes they did when they were you're age. they help you along the way my guy