PLE apresenta - The Janitor (ou o Janitão, um conto sobre a emigração)

PLE apresenta - The Janitor

(ou o Janitão, um conto sobre a emigração da autoria de dois emigrantes de sucesso do Entroncamento para o mundo e de volta a O Porto. John Little Chicken e Mary Zei Cross, numa little story, muito cândida e com uma lágrima no canto de olho (aconselha-se a audição da soundtrack pelo Bonga)


How he was sick of all those excursions to the museum. He knew that the teachers were only trying to provide some interest to the students, but they were to many and they were always making such a noise. How could little children enjoy all of those paintings? Sometimes they would stop looking at him and laugh:
- Look! There is the janitor cleaning the floor!
- What a silly hat he has!!
He never reacted to the teasing. There he was, accomplishing his job, trying to keep that museum as clean as he could. In spite of accomplishing his work, one other thing that made him happy was the fact that his father, a fifty-year-old man, come every single day to give him courage and love. Every single day he would remember his father in their old house, painting, while the janitor watched him from the living room.
It was his father that encouraged him to go to the museum. He was always saying to him:
- Some day you are going to be famous, my son. You must believe that. I expect a great deal of you.
As time passed, he didn’t grow famous, but nevertheless his father was disappointed. His father saw him as a perfect being where he had put all of his life, his happiness, anger or frustration.
Suddenly, as if a beam had stroke him, the janitor looked around and realised that the confusion was gone. All the children and teacher had left the museum and could finally finish his work and go home, to his father. How he was happy again, until he found out that he couldn’t go home. He was stuck in that building imprisoned in that room and locked forever in a painting with no life, except that which his father saw in him: one man cleaning a museum. A janitor with his soul stolen by a wizard, gaining his life stealing souls, trying to give fame to his paintings.