BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE Chapters 13 & 14 Read Aloud (2023)

Introduction

The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the people of Naomi. Opal spends all that summer collecting stories about her new friends and learns that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.

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Because of winn-dixie by kate, d, camillo, chapter 13.

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And when dixie got into a daily routine where we would leave the trailer early in the morning and get down to gertrude's pets in time to hear otis play his guitar music for the animals, sometimes sweetie pie snuck in for the concert too.

She sat on the floor and wrapped her arms around when dixie and rocked him back and forth like.

He was a big old teddy bear.

And then when the music was over, she would walk around trying to pick out which pets she wanted.

But she always gave up and went home because the only thing she really wanted was a dog like when dixie after she was gone.

I would sweep and clean up and even arrange some of otis shelves because he did not have an eye for arranging things like I did.

And when I was done otis would write down my time in a notebook that he had marked on the outside one red leather collar, one red, leather leash.

And the whole time he did not in any way ever act like a criminal after working at gertrude's pets me.

And when dixie would go over to the hermann w block memorial library and talk to miss franny block and listen to her tell us a story.

But my favorite place to be that summer was in gloria dumps yard.

And I figured it was when dixie's favorite place to be too.

Because when we got to the last block before her house when dixie would break away from my bike and start to run for all, he was worth heading for gloria dumps backyard.

And his spoonful of peanut butter, sometimes dunlap and stevie dewberry would follow me.

They would holler.

There goes the preacher's daughter, visiting the witch she's, not a witch.

I told them it made me mad the way they wouldn't listen to me and kept on believing whatever they wanted to believe about gloria dump.

One time stevie said to me, my mama says, you shouldn't be spending all your time cooped up in that pet shop.

And at that library sitting around talking with old ladies, she said, you should get out in the fresh air and play with kids your own age that's.

What my mama says, oh lay off her dunlap said to stevie.

Then he turned to me.

He don't mean it he said, but I was already mad.

I shouted at stevie.

I said, I don't care what your mama says, she's, not my mama.

So she can't tell me what to do I'm gonna tell my mommy, you said that shouted stevie and she'll, tell your daddy and he'll shame you in front of the whole church.

And that pet shop man is and he was in jail.

And I wonder if your daddy knows that otis is not I said, and my daddy knows that he was in jail that was a lie, but I didn't care.

And you can go ahead and tell me if you want you big ball-headed baby, I swear it about wore me out yelling at dunlap and stevie dewberry every day.

By the time I got to gloria dumps yard.

I felt like a soldier who had been fighting a hard battle.

Gloria would make me a peanut butter sandwich straight off.

And then she would pour me a cup of coffee with half coffee and half milk.

And that would refresh me.

Why don't you play with them? Boys gloria asked me because they're ignorant, I told her they still think you're a witch.

It doesn't matter how many times I tell them you're, not I think they're just trying to make friends with you in a roundabout way, gloria said, well, I don't want to be their friend.

I said, it might be fun having them two boys for friends.

I'd rather talk with you.

I said, they're, stupid and mean and they're boys gloria would shake her head and sigh.

And then she would ask me what was going on in the world and did I have any stories to tell her.

And I always did chapter 14.

Sometimes I told gloria the story, miss franny, blockade just told me, or I imitated otis, tapping his pointy toe boots and playing for all the animals.

And that always made her laugh.

And sometimes I made up a story and gloria dump would listen to it all the way through from beginning to end.

She told me she used to love to read stories, but she couldn't anymore because her eyes were so bad.

Can't.

You get some really strong glasses.

I asked her child.

She said, they don't make glasses strong enough for these eyes one day when the storytelling was done, I decided to tell gloria that otis was a criminal.

I thought, maybe I should tell an adult about it and gloria was the best adult.

I knew gloria.

I said, um, she said, back, you know, otis, I don't know him.

But I know what you tell me about him? Well, he's a criminal he's been in jail.

Do you think I should be afraid of him? What for I don't know for bad things? I guess for being in jail? Child said, gloria, let me show you something she got up out of her chair, real slow and took hold of my arm lets the two of us walk all the way to the back of this yard.

Okay, I said we walked.

And when dixie followed right behind us, it was a huge yard, and I had never been all the way back in when we got to a big old tree, we stopped look at this tree.

Gloria said, I looked up there were bottles hanging from just about every branch.

There were whiskey bottles and beer bottles and wine bottles all tied on with string.

And some of them were clanking against each other and making a spooky kind of noise me.

And when dixie stood and stared at the tree and the hair on the top of his head rose up a little bit, and he growled deep in his throat, gloria dump pointed her cane at the tree.

What do you think about this tree? I said, I don't know, why are all those bottles on it to keep the ghosts away? Gloria said, what ghost the ghost of all the things I'd done wrong? I looked at all the bottles on the tree.

You did that many things wrong.

I asked her said, gloria more than that, but you're the nicest person, I know, I told her don't mean, I haven't done bad things.

She said, there's, whiskey bottles on there.

I told her and beer bottles child said, gloria dump, I know that I'm the one who put them there I'm, the one who drank what was in them.

My mama drank, I whispered, I know it gloria dump said, the preacher says that sometimes she couldn't stop drinking said, gloria, again, that's, the way it is for some folks we get started.

And we can't get stopped.

Are you one of those people? Yes, ma'am, I am.

But these days I don't, drink, nothing stronger than coffee did the whiskey and beer and wine did they make you do the bad things that are ghosts.

Now some of them said, gloria dump some of them.

I would have done anyway with alcohol, or without it before I learned learn what learned what is the most important thing what's that I asked her it's different for everyone.

She said you find out on your own.

But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't, always judge people by the things they done.

You got to judge them by what they are doing.

Now you judge otis by the pretty music.

He plays and how kind he is to them animals because that's, all you know about him right now.

All right? Yes, ma'am, I said and them dewberry boys.

You try not to judge them too harsh.

Either all right.

All right? I said, all right, then said, gloria dump.

And she turned and started walking away when dixie nudged me with his wet nose and wagged his tail.

When he saw, I wasn't going.

He trotted after gloria, I stayed where I was and studied the tree.

I wondered if my mama wherever she was had a tree full of bottles.

And I wondered if I was a ghost to her the same way, she sometimes seemed like a ghost to me.

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