The Voice of the Xenolith by Cynthia Pelman

Author:Cynthia Pelman [Pelman, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781484715
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Published: 2015-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

So you can see how she was a good guardian to me, but what could I possibly be the guardian of, for her? How could I be responsible for her?

It took me a few days to come up with this answer, which I haven’t told anyone; it is a private thought.

I think that my responsibility to her is to show people that she is the best teacher, so that even though she is semi-retired, and maybe not many people know who she is, one day, when I am much older, if anyone reads my book, they will hear about her and know what kind of person she was.

Then I thought, putting her in my book is not enough, because right now nobody is allowed to read my books. So in that case, I realised that what really counted was what I chose to do next: if I showed some team spirit at school, even occasionally, or at least participated in a few classroom discussions, the word would get around that it was Mrs. E. who had helped me to do this.

It’s not that I think she needs my help in making her famous; I think she is quite happy with her life as it is, but it is something I thought I would like to do. I want to make it clear that I don’t think team spirit and classroom participation are in any way important, or relevant, in fact I couldn’t care less about those things, but if that is what I had to do to be responsible for Mrs. E. then I would try to do it.

And I also thought, maybe there are other children who have selective mutism and who need help to get rid of their phobia. I read a wonderful book by a boy who had had a school phobia, and he wrote about how it felt and how he got over it, and I think that must have been so helpful to other children who had that problem. So maybe this was one time when I would need to write things down in a book which other people could read, because in a funny way maybe those other children needed me as their guardian, nearly as much as I needed Mrs. E.

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