By Sharon Creech
Leo's papa stood within the doorway, looking at down at him. "Leo, you're making gold from pebbles," and how he acknowledged it, Leo might inform that this was once an excellent factor. He could have been given a section half within the college play ... yet Leo desires he's the most important megastar on Broadway. definite, his huge, noisy relations makes him believe like a sardine squashed in a tin ... yet in his fable he will get all of the awareness he desires. convinced, his papa turns out unhappy and distracted ... yet Leo imagines him as a boy, tap-dancing and making a song with pride. that is why they name Leo "fog boy." he is continuously dreaming, regularly replaying issues in his mind. He fantasizes approximately who he's to be able to become aware of who he'll develop into. As an actor within the university play, he's poised and prepared for the curtain to open. yet within the play that's his lifestyles, Leo is raring to find what half could be his.
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You will never again have to wonder What should I say or do? because it will all be written there for you. You could know what dumb things you will do. You could find out if you ever will do anything that isn’t dumb. But then, what if your script was dull, if you never got to do anything exciting? Or what if something awful was going to happen to you? 42 What if your script was very, very short? You would definitely not want to know that. � It is Delivery of Script Day, when each twelveyear-old is given his Life Script.
With what, Nunzio-bunzio? NUNZIO: LEO: Tie my thoothe? Your thoothe? Your thoothe are untied? Come here, let me see, Nunzio-bunzio. And Nunzio would trail along with Contento and Leo and Pietro, snagging one of their hands or shirts, hanging on, toddling merrily along, humming little songs, lo de do, lo de do. Even now, at eight years old, Nunzio is still the baby, spoiled by all of them, but how can they help it? His lisp seems so much a part of Nunzio that none of his family can bear to correct him, and instead they encourage his babyish language and way of speaking.
Yuk! Nunzio? I have to thave my voithe for choir. Scoot, scoot, I’m busy, can’t you see? Sardine, your papa is having a headache, very big one. And so Leo rehearses alone, reading the whole 20 play, all the lines, and when he comes to his own old crone lines, he steps forward and loads them with extra feeling. He rehearses in the bathroom because all the other rooms are occupied with people doing homework and watching television and ironing and having headaches. When the telephone rings, Leo tries to block out the noise.