Ali and his Camera
Автор книги Raymond Pizante
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Ali lives in Istanbul, a big city in Turkey. He lives in an old building near the famous Blue Mosque. After school, Ali comes home and sits at the window. He looks at the boats. They are going out to sea.
What are you doing? Ali's mother asks. I'm taking photos of those boats, Ali says. His mother looks at him and laughs. Photos?
How can you take photos? You haven't got a camera. I know that, mother. I'm taking photos in my head. I can see the photos here.
Ali shows a place near his eyes. His mother laughs again. Stop talking and go to your father's shop. Shh, she tells him. Ali's father sells vegetables and fruit.
Ali works in the shop after school. Don't move. Stand there near the door, Ali says suddenly. Why? His father asks.
I want to take your photos. Ali's father smiles. My photo? First get a camera. Then you can take my photo.
Buy me a camera, Ali says. Ali says. Ali's father stops smiling. I haven't got any money for cameras, he says slowly. Every afternoon Ali walks in the old city of Istanbul.
He looks at the houses near the water. Some houses are very old. He watches the men on the bridge. They are catching fish. He watches the boats.
He watches and he sees photos in his head. How can I get a camera? He thinks. Suddenly he has the answer. I'm going to work in the market.
There is an old market near Ali school. There are small shops in the market. People buy and sell food there. Ali goes there every afternoon after school. He works with a smile.
He carries bags for people. People like him. And they give him money. He puts it in his pocket. One day I'm going to have a lot of money, Ali says to his mother.
Then I can buy a camera. And then I'm going to take a photo of you in the kitchen. No, not in the kitchen. On the balcony. With your father, his mother says.
No, not on the balcony. In my shop, his father says. One afternoon, Ali is carrying a heavy bag for an old man. There's a man behind us, the old man says. The old man says do you know him?
Ali looks at the man behind them. He is big and strong. No, I don't know him. He doesn't work in the market. Watch my bag, the old man says.
Perhaps he's a thief. Allah thinks of the money in his pocket. Let's walk quickly, he tells the old man. I can't walk quickly. You're young.
But I'm not. Suddenly the big man takes the bag from Ali's hand and starts to run away. Ali runs after him. The man hits a lie. Ali falls down and his money falls out of his pocket.
And his money falls out of his pocket. The man puts down the bag. Then he takes Ali's money and runs away. Ali gives the bag to the old man. Thank you very much.
The old man says you're a very good young man. Ali is unhappy, but he does not talk about the money that evening. He does not tell his mother and father about it.