Re: Thanks for reply

Dear Moringsan:

Yes. The girl who goes by the name of "Scout" is as good as Dahl's Matilda at reading, though she has no strange powers like making a stick of chalk go up in the air.

I put a number of different things mixed up together in my writing 975, so let me make them clear:

The boy made after Capote is Dill, though there is no sign in the book to let the reader see it. Scout and Jem's play with Dill and her experience of going to the black church are in different parts of the book.

I saw a TV program on making of the motion picture To Kill a Mockingbird. It's with the Special Edition DVD of the moving picture. In the program, the writer Horton Foote gives a talk about how he made Harper Lee's book into the screenplay. When he was getting ready for writing, he had a meeting with Lee, and she said to him that Dill was Capote, so he made Dill more like Capote, who was a noted man at the time. And a boy actor who is truly looking like Capote did the part in the moving picture, guiding Scout and Jem on the journey into the dark space.