What matters is that before I got involved in this experiment I had friends, people who cared for me.
Now I'm afraid—" "You've still got friends." "It's not the same."
"Fear is a normal reaction." "It's more than that. I've been afraid before.
Afraid of being strapped for not giving in to Norma, afraid of passing Howells Street where the gang used to tease me and push me around.
And I was afraid of the schoolteacher, Mrs. Libby, who tied my hands so I wouldn't fidget with things on my desk.
But those things were realsomething I was justified in being afraid of.
This terror at being kicked out of the bakery is vague, a fear I don't understand."
"Get hold of yourself." "You don't feel the panic." "But, Charlie, it's to be expected.
You're a new swimmer forced off a diving raft and terrified of losing the solid wood under your feet.
Mr. Donner was good to you, and you were sheltered all these years.
Being driven out of the bakery this way is an even greater shock than you expected."
"Knowing it intellectually doesn't help. I can't sit alone in my room any more.
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