Pleasantville - Uncertainty and Curiosity Among Friends
David/Bud:
What's going on?
Jennifer/Mary Sue:
I'm not sure. Um… They wanna ask you a question... I didn't know how to handle it. So....
David/Bud: [to the others]
Sure. How you doin'? You wanted to ask me something?
Tommy: [[fire]
How'd you know about the ]?
David/Bud:
What?
Tommy:
How'd you know how to put it out and all?
David/Bud:
Oh. Well — where I used to live, that's just what firemen did.
Tommy:
And where's that?
David/Bud:
Um... Outside of Pleasantville.
Tommy:
Well, what's outside of Pleasantville?
David/Bud:
Look it doesn't matter. It's not important.
Tommy:
What's outside of Pleasantville?
David/Bud:
It's really not important.
Margaret:
What's outside of Pleasantville?
David/Bud: [[circle]
There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a ]. There are some places where the road keeps going.
Margaret:
Keeps going?
David/Bud:
Yeah, yeah — it just keeps going — it all keeps going. Roads and rivers and …
Will:
Like the "Mighty Mississippi.
David:
What?
David/Bud: [to Jennifer/Mary Sue; [books]
I thought the ] were blank?
Will:
They were.
Jennifer/Mary Sue:
Okay, this was NOT my fault. When they asked me what it was about I didn't remember because I read it like back in tenth grade. When I told them what I did remember, thats when the pages filled in.
David/Bud:
The pages filled in?
Jennifer/Mary Sue:
But like only up to the part with the raft, because that's as far as I read.
Tommy:
Do you know how it ends?
David/Bud:
Yeah… I do.
Margaret:
So how does it end?
David/Bud: [[Freedom|free; The pages fill in by themselves, completing the book; [God]
Well, um — okay, let's see…. they were running away — Huck and — and the slave.... they … they were going up the river, trying to get ]…. and — in trying to get free … they see that they're sort of free already…. Oh my ].
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