8과 본문
The Dot
Art class was over.
Vashti did not leave the classroom.
Her paper was empty.
Vashti’s teacher looked at the empty paper.
“Ah! It’s a polar bear in a snowstorm,” she said.
“Very funny!” said Vashti.
“I just can’t draw.”
Her teacher smiled and shook her head.
“Just make a mark.
It will take you somewhere.”
Vashti picked up a pen and poked the paper. "There!"
Her teacher picked up the paper and looked at it carefully.
She returned the paper to Vashti and said, “Now sign it.”
Vashti thought for a moment.
“Well, maybe I can’t draw, but I can sign my name.”
Next week, Vashti walked into art class.
She was surprised.
There was a picture above the teacher’s desk.
It was her dot in a gold frame!
“Hmm! I can make a better dot than that!”
She opened her set of watercolors and started to work.
Vashti painted and painted more to create dots.
A red dot. A yellow dot. A blue dot.
She mixed the blue with the yellow.
She could make a green dot!
She was very happy with herself.
“I made lots of little dots.
I guess I can make big ones, too.”
Vashti used a bigger brush and bigger paper to make bigger dots.
Vashti even made a dot without painting one.
She painted the whole paper except the round center.
There was a white dot!
A few weeks later, the school art show took place.
Vashti’s many dots were a big success!
Vashti saw a little boy.
He was standing beside her.
“You’re a great artist.
I want to paint like you,” he said.
“I’m sure you can.
Trust yourself,” said Vashti.
“No, I can’t even draw a straight line.”
Vashti smiled.
She handed the boy a piece of paper.
“Show me.”
The boy’s pencil shook while he drew a line.
The line was not straight.
Vashti looked at it carefully and said, “Please ... sign it.”
The Dot, Peter H. Reynolds
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