사건의 무대.는 카슨 매컬러스.인만큼, 미국 남부의 소도시일테지만, 사건의 시간은?
It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old.
몇페이지 읽지도 않았는데, 책은 온통 crazy, dizzy, green, summer, 그리고 sad, puzzled, blue 등의 단어들로 가득하다.
하드를 뒤져, 캄보디아 시골의 사진을 하나 짤방.으로 올리고,
첫페이지를 곰곰히 씹어본다.
It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long tie she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in doorways, and she was afraid. In June the trees were bright dizzy green, but later the leaves darkened, and the town turned black and shrunken under the glare of the sun. At first Frankie walked around doing one thing and another. The sidewalks of the town were gray in the early morning and at night, but the noon sun put a glaze on them, so that the cement burned and glittered like glass. The sidewalks finally became too hot for Frankie's feet, and also she got herself in trouble. She was in so much secret trouble that she thought it was better to stay home - and at home three was only Bernice Sadie Brown and John Henry West.