Va rog ajutatimaaaa traduceti My name is Jean Louise Finch, but everyone calls me Scout. We're
from the South We think it's a big deal who your family is, where
you've come from, and what you're known for. Our ancestor,
Simon Finch, bought Finch's Landing, and for generations that's where our
family has lived. My Aunt Alexandra still lives here now with her quiet husband. My
father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery, Alabama to study law, and his brother Jack went
to Boston to study to be a doctor. My father then moved back to Maycomb. Maycomb was
a tired, old town back in those days. People moved slowly and days seemed long, especially
on hot summer days. We lived on the main street, Atticus, Jem, and I. Our father played with
us, read to us, and treated us fine. We had a cook too, Calpurnia. She was strict with me. She
always asked me why I didn't behave as well as Jem. But he was older anyhow.
One day during the summer when I was six and Jem was nine, we were playing in our
neighborhood, as usual. We heard something in Miss Rachel's garden. We found a boy sitting
looking at us.
He said, "I'm Charles Baker Harris. I can read." "So what?" I said. Jem wanted to get a better
look at him, so he said, "Why don't you come over, Charles Baker Harris?"
"People call me Dill," he said, as he came to us. Dill told us he was from Mississippi, but was
spending the summer with his aunt Rachel. He had seen a lot of movies, so he described them
to us, and we spent the next days acting them out. He was very creative, and always had good
ideas. We finally got tired of this game. That's when Dill's fascination with the Radley house
began. The Radley house was old, shabby* and dark. The grass was too high and the paint
had turned gray. Even in the long, hot summer, the doors were shut up tight. There was a
rumor that it was haunted* People said "Boo" Radley went out at night to look through
people's windows. "Wonder what he does in there," Dill was saying, "Wonder what he looks
like?" Jem said Boo was 2 metres tall, ate small animals, and his teeth were yellow and sharp.
"Let's try to make him come out," said Dill. Dill bet Jem to go up and knock on the door. Jem
thought about it for three days.
The next day I caught Jem and Dill planning something. They finally told me what it was. They
were going to try to get a note to Boo Radley!! Dill explained what the note said, "We're
asking him real politely to come out sometimes, and tell us what he does in there - we said
We wouldn't hurt him and we'd buy him an ice cream." I told Dill that he and Jem were crazy,
(adapted from Jo kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee)
*shabby - decăzut, prăpădit​