Dixon
02-25-2010, 06:21 PM
I had started working at the library when I was ten. Being very fond of reading I did not care that the librarian was my draconic Mathematics teacher Mrs Winter.
She controlled the library in a very demanding way. One of her strict rules was that children were not allowed to read adult books.
One day, while putting back books to the adult´s bookshelf the title “To kill a mockingbird” caught my attention. Mrs. Winter was talking to an elderly woman so I managed to put the book aside without her seeing it.
I loved the story of motherless Scout and Jem Finch. My own parents had been divorced with my father disappearing into the unknown and my mum unable to cope. So warm-hearted Atticus Finch became my dream-father. For almost four years I took the book from the library once in a while without checking it out properly.
During all this time Mrs Winter had never talked to me more than necessary. So when she told me one day about her leaving our village I could not have cared less.
On her last day she gave me a present.
It was a newly smelling edition of Harper Lee´s “To kill a mocking bird.”
I had never been so surprised in all my life.
She controlled the library in a very demanding way. One of her strict rules was that children were not allowed to read adult books.
One day, while putting back books to the adult´s bookshelf the title “To kill a mockingbird” caught my attention. Mrs. Winter was talking to an elderly woman so I managed to put the book aside without her seeing it.
I loved the story of motherless Scout and Jem Finch. My own parents had been divorced with my father disappearing into the unknown and my mum unable to cope. So warm-hearted Atticus Finch became my dream-father. For almost four years I took the book from the library once in a while without checking it out properly.
During all this time Mrs Winter had never talked to me more than necessary. So when she told me one day about her leaving our village I could not have cared less.
On her last day she gave me a present.
It was a newly smelling edition of Harper Lee´s “To kill a mocking bird.”
I had never been so surprised in all my life.