Flipped：Chapter 4

方知方知 2017-09-17 22:44 阅读(2038)

作业：

1）Juli 眼里的爸爸是个什么样的人？

Juli think father was peaceful and enjoyed when he was painting.

2）Juli爬到树上干嘛去了？之后为什么喜欢待在树上？

Juli went up to rescue a kite that was stuck in its branches.

“A painting is more than the sum of its parts,”

I understood what he was saying, but I never felt what he was saying until one day when I was up in the sycamore tree.

And the higher I got, the more amazed I was by the view. I'd never seen a view like that! It was like being in an airplane above all the rooftops, above the other trees. Above the world!

That's when the fear of being up so high began to lift, and in its place came the most amazing feeling that I was flying. Just soaring above the earth, sailing among the clouds.

Then I began to notice how wonderful the breeze smelled. It smelled like ... sunshine. Like sunshine and wild grass and pomegranates and rain! I couldn't stop breathing it in, filling my lungs again and again with the sweetest smell I'd ever known.

It wasn't long before I wasn't afraid of being up so high and found the spot that became my spot. I could sit there for hours, just looking out at the world. Sunsets were amazing. Some days they'd be purple and pink, some days they'd be a blazing orange, setting fire to clouds across the horizon.

It was on a day like that when my father's notion of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts moved from my head to my heart. The view from my sycamore was more than rooftops and clouds and wind and colors combined.

It was magic.

I went up the tree every chance I got. And in junior high that became almost every day because the bus to our school picks up on Collier Street, right in front of the sycamore tree.

At first I just wanted to see how high I could get before the bus pulled up, but before long I was leaving the house early so I could get clear up to my spot to see the sun rise, or the birds flutter about, or just the other kids converge on the curb.

3）Juli喜欢的那颗树怎么了？她从父亲那得到了什么礼物？

The tree had been cut down.

The gift was a painting about the beautiful, majestic sycamore tree