I just kept on smiling, by Simon Burt; fiction, pgs. 10-19

This book takes place around 1900's, I'm pretty sure, anyways.
It is school time, and the narrator was in Latin class with Nicky Carver, and the other students. Nicky Carver is supposedly the narrators friend. What happens is that the narrator steals 3 out of 27 literacy books on the teachers desk, after writing a sentence down for the class, then that's when it all went down. before the teacher knew it, the books were in the chapel, the narrator was not like the other kids, instead of spending his time in the day room, he went to the chapel, and that's where he hid the books. Later, when the teacher found out what had happened the next day, he came into the classroom, and the thief would have a chance to return them. The next day, they weren't there, and everybody was whipped as their punishment. Then, just before the day ended, Nicky Carver tried to take the narrators place, and said he did it, the narrator was furious, and he went right up, and admitted it was him! The room was cleared, and he was whipped. The end.


I thought it was weird how he was furious at the end, and took the blame for himself. Also, the reason I thought Nicky Carver was the narrators friend, was because he talked to him occasionally, at least more than others, and he played chess with him. This story kind of reminded me of the Harrison Burgeron, because the story had a weird set of time, story line, and characters, even though they were two totally different stories.


Latin: the Indo- European language of the ancient Romans, or relating to their culture