Fire at Sea Page #2

There...

English homework all done.

I read this, this one and that one.

Listen to the thunder.

You can't go outside,

the weather's bad.

When Grandpa went out to fish

and the weather was good,

I took bread to him.

I was your age, Samuele.

And they went to sea.

You took bread to him.

Grandpa would get off the boat

and I would hand him the bread.

They stayed out all day,

in the evening

they came back in,

they were scared to go out at night

they only went during the day.

Why?

Because navy ships

would pass by at night,

it was wartime.

More thunder.

Listen to the thunder!

The ships fired rockets

and at sea, it was like...

It was like there was fire at sea.

Fire at sea?

The sea turned red.

Wartime.

Enough, you killed 'em all.

Look!

I got him, stone-cold dead.

Got the slingshot?

It's Auntie Maria.

I want to dedicate a song

to my son Nello,

"Fire at Sea",

if you can put it to air

because it's still bad weather

and they can't go out fishing,

no one's earning anything

with this awful weather.

Here's hoping the weather improves.

Thanks, Pippo, bye.

"My Little Donkey",

another Sicilian song.

And on with the show.

We have another request:

Maria dedicates to her son Nello,

in the hope the weather improves

so he can go out in the boat to work,

the song "Fire at Sea".

I'd like to join her

and dedicate it to all the fishermen.

So, by request, "Fire at Sea".

D, C, E, Z, K.

The last one?

R, E, V, O, Z.

- The second line too?

- No.

Let's see the other one.

Now read the first line.

Can't you see it?

Not like this,

if I go like this, maybe,

but like that I can't see it.

All right.

Look here.

Is that better or worse?

- Still looking at the lines?

- Yes, the first letter.

I can't see it, it's worse.

- This one?

- D.

When you hunt with your slingshot...

- Do you close an eye?

- This one.

- That is, you close the lazy one.

- Yes.

That's why you didn't notice.

I close this one like this.

You've never noticed

because you close your left eye.

- Do you ever close the right one?

- No.

Because you're used to it.

My boy,

we have a problem with this eye:

it's a lazy eye.

You know what a lazy eye is?

It's an eye

that doesn't work, it's lazy.

So, your brain doesn't receive

images from the left eye,

so we have to force it

to use the left eye,

therefore,

for a more or less brief period

we'll wear a patch on the good eye.

- What kind of patch?

- An adhesive eye patch.

- Over the pupil?

- Over the eye.

On the sick one or on this one?

On the good one,

that way we'll force your brain

to use the lazy eye and make it work.

It's a bit hard,

I don't know how to use it.

We have to slowly get used to it.

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