Middle School: Get Me Out Of Here! - Plot & Excerpts
ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT IT Take a look at this,” Mrs. Ling said, and showed us a picture of an old garbage can. “And now this,” she said. “And this,” she said. “And this. “Quite often, the artist’s job is to show the world something familiar, but in a whole new way,” she said. “That’s your assignment this week. I want you all to take at least one object that might look like junk to anyone else, and give it a new life, as art.” I guess I’d been going to Cathedral long enough now, because I actually understood what Mrs. Ling was talking about. I liked the idea of giving something a whole new life. Kind of what I was trying to do with me these days. As usual, I was sitting in the back with Matty. He was already sketching ideas like crazy, but then he scribbled something on the corner of his page, tore it off, and passed it over to me. After class, he told me there were a bunch of places he knew where people threw away good junk all the time. “And we can just take it?”
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