Believe by Julie Mathison
Author:Julie Mathison [Mathison, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Starr Creek Press
Published: 2020-08-04T04:00:00+00:00
Little Miss Sunshine
âNo, no, Colin, absolutely not! The hook is not to be used for excavating the furniture!â
Miss Gorman had her hands full. Sabrina and I were watching from the fifth row because they were running the opening scene from Act Two, which is all about the pirates, Indians, and lost boys. I felt funny saying Indians, even in my head, when I knew Native Americans was more respectful. These were the things you learned in experimental schools.
âScalp him, oho, velly quick!â Panther said, and followed Tiger Lily across the stage, hunched over like someone was riding on his back.
Mr. Barrie must not have been thinking about cultural sensitivity when he wrote his play.
âUgh, ugh, wah!â the other braves cried, leaping around.
âPeter Pan isnât quite what I expected,â Sabrina said.
I had to agree that parts of it seemed downright awful. It wasnât the way I remembered it, maybe because Momâs voice made everything feel like home. Weâd decided that going to Neverland must be even better than Africa or Istanbul because it was everlasting, with fixed stars that shone like pinpricks in the dome of the sky. But it seemed like the story had changed since then, even though it was probably just me.
âWhy do the Indians seem so dopey?â Sabrina asked. Sheâd turned up, back at school, the Monday after my trip to the farm, and weâd fallen right back into our old ways.
âNative Americans,â I corrected her. âYou have to remember, it was a product of its time,â I added, using the exact same words Miss Gorman had when Jeannie Packer complained. Jeannieâs great-grandma was full-blooded Sioux, which made everyone jealous because most of us donât know where we came from.
Miss Gormanâs words felt strange on my lips. Did she mean that, just because people thought that way, it made it okay?
âHmm,â Sabrina said, and I could tell she wasnât buying it either. âAnd how come nobody really wants to be in Neverland? I mean, the lost boys only end up there because they fall out of their prams, sort of like a punishment. Peter doesnât seem happy. Everyone just wants a mother, even the pirates.â
I had noticed this too, but I didnât really want to talk about it.
âItâs complicated,â I said, which I had noticed was often enough to end a conversation.
âHmm,â she said again. She sat a moment, then turned to me with a flick of her dark hair. âSo, tell me about the postcard.â
I went through it all again, how it had been done in Peter Pan code, and how Iâd written back to convince Mom to let me join her. I left out my suspicion that Mom might just be humoring me. Sabrina is skeptical enough all on her own.
âWhy wait? Now that you have her address, we could just go,â she said, but I rolled my eyes.
âWeâve already been through this. We donât know anything about what weâd be walking into, Sabrina. These are gang members.â Somehow, Sabrina had managed to forget all her fears.
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