He daydreams constantly and no longer understands what the teacher is saying. He invents a world where he would be the hero of the story. For his father to love him.
On y parquait des enfants de douze à quatorze ans pour lesquels le système éducatif avait jeté l’éponge, mais devait bien les garder, instruction obligatoire oblige. C’était un concentré de naufrages…
What I would need, thought Julien, is not to put myself behind the wheel of a new car, it would be to change the driver! Not getting a wish but owning the wonderful lamp.