Author's Note: Written for alianne for Yuletide 2012. This was inspired by a blog article called "Classics by a Six Year Old," wherein the author showed the covers of various classic novels to her six year old daughter and the daughter gave her description of what she thought the plot of the story would be.
The one for To Kill a Mockingbird is: "It's about a guy that tried to kill a mockingbird but he couldn't because the bird was magical. And the bird lives in different trees because he's trying to hide from him but the man keeps hitting leaves that look like the mockingbird, but he never shoots the mockingbird. And guy is really bad but the bird is really good. "
Atticus (that's a funny name! it sounds like he should be part of a house! Attic-us) waved a gun in the air (like a water gun?). He took aim at the mockingbird (is it a happy birdy? why would he want to hurt a happy birdy?! it's not an angry birdy!). It had done something to upset him (did it forget to make its nest in the morning before school?). And the birdy was afraid of water. So every time Attic-us aimed his water gun at the birdy, it flew to a different tree. Each tree was friendly to the birdy! Which is good, because we're supposed to make friends. Even if you're a tree or a bird. Attic-us really, really likes made beds though. He keeps going after the birdy! Poor birdy! Attic-us is mean. The birdy didn't do anything wrong!
If the birdy gets tired, Attic-us will find it. And then it'll have to eat all its veggies.
Poor birdy! I don't like veggies either. They're icky.
Why does Attic-us hate the birdy? I don't know. But he wants it gone. And that's sad.
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