Write an original story describing an event years in the future when the narrator is grown-up and a published author and runs into Miss Caroline and has a conversation about how important reading with father was to her when she was young.
Story: Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinsonâs upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.
Miss Caroline printed her name on the blackboard and said, âThis says I am Miss Caroline Fisher. I am from North Alabama, from Winston County.â The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region. (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.
Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats. The cats had long conversations with one another, they wore cunning little clothes and lived in a warm house beneath a kitchen stove. By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms. Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and flour sack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature. Miss Caroline came to the end of the story and said, âOh, my, wasnât that nice?â Then she went to the blackboard and printed the alphabet in enormous square capitals, turned to the class and asked, âDoes anybody know what these are?â Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore, it would interfere with my reading.
âTeach me?â I said in surprise. âHe hasnât taught me anything, Miss Caroline. Atticus ainât got time to teach me anything,â I added, when Miss Caroline smiled and shook her head. âWhy, heâs so tired at night he just sits in the living room and reads.â
âIf he didnât teach you, who did?â Miss Caroline asked good-naturedly. âSomebody did. You werenât born reading The Mobile Register.â
âJem says I was. He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch. Jem says my nameâs really Jean Louise Bullfinch, that I got swapped when I was born and Iâm really a-â
Miss Caroline apparently thought I was lying. âLetâs not let our imaginations run away with us, dear,â she said. âNow you tell your father not to teach you any more. Itâs best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him Iâll take over from here and try to undo the damage-â
âMaâam?â
âYour father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now.â
I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon my crime. I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of churchâwas it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of
shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticusâs moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dowâanything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing
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