Journal #6

In my neighborhood there is this one house where you never see anyone there. All you see is the car parked out front. I think that this relates to Boo Radley because he never came outside and people rarely see him in the book. It's like they stay in there house everyday. I didn't even see them when they moved in because I used to play over there all the time and i didn't see them move in. It's like they only come out when I go to school. Quite a few times in the morning before i go to school I see the grass in there yard and it looks like a jungle and when I come back from school it' cut and looks perfect. I don't even know the names of the people that live there

I think that I am more like Jem because I don't like my sister's to be around me with my friends. And I don't like them going to my school. I also go outside and play a lot in the summer with my friend we play football, baseball, dodge ball, and soccer. I like to do lots of things with my dad like fishing, River rafting, hiking and other things. Right now he is one of the coaches on my baseball team. I like my sister's a lot to because they take me to do things like six flags, the movies, the mall. I think that my family is really cool.

I think it would change for the better because then Alexandra would have never of come into the story that much. Because they would already have a feminine influence. i think she would calm Atticus down with his trials and little gatherings. But then Cal might not be there or she would be just a regular African American maid. I think that she would have had a few words wit Ms. Caroline (Scout's teacher). So mostly I think that if their mom was in the story that it would change most of it.

Journal #5

Journal #5
Chapters 13-14
Perspective: Jem


Today my aunt Alexandra came to visit. She told us the reason she came to Maycomb was because ahe thought that Scout and I needed a femenine influence but I don't think so. When she came the whole town was trying to talk with her. Basically she was the center of atterntion in Maycomb. She always kept going on about how the finchs are a good family and always do good. Later on Scout asked Atticus what rape was and he gave her a very detailed and leagal definition of the word. And she didn't understand. Then they start talking about how the trip to Cal's church was. Then Alexandra made a big fuss because we had went to Cal' church. So then she told Atticus that he should get rid of her. But then Atticus refuses and says she part of the family. Later on that night Scout and I got sent to bed because we got into a fight. After that Scout saw something under her bed and it was Dill. he had run away from his parents because they weren't giving him enough attention.

Journal #4

Journal #4
Chapters 10-12
Perspective: Scout

Today was a very crazy day Jem and I got our guns and went to go shoot birds. but on the way Jem a dog. It's name was Tim. The dog was a mad dog. After we saw it we went to go tell Cal. Then Cal went to check it out. When she saw it she went to every ones door to tell them that a mad dog was on the loose. As soon as everyone had found out Mr. Heck and Atticus came to help. Mr. Heck was the Sheriff. When they finally found out they had to kill the dog for everyone to be safe. Mr. Heck told Atticus to shoot it because he was a poor shot. When Atticus shot Tim it was with only one shot. Jem and I were staring amazed. After that Atticus and Mr. Heck left and Ms. Maudie said that we should stay away from the dog even though that it's dead. Jem was still amazed that Atticus could shoot like that. Ms. Maudie told us that when Atticus was young his nick-name was one-shot Finch. He was called that because he shot 15 birds with only 16 shots. Then after complained about wasteing ammo. JEm had wondered why Atticus had never told us about it.

Journal #2

Journal #2
Chapters 4-7
Perspective: Dill

Well it's almost Summer again so now I can go play with my old friends in Maycomb, Scout and Jem. I can't wait to see them again. YES finally here. We started playing this game called the Boo Radley game. After playing that game for a while we got in trouble by Mr. Atticus. But after a while I think scout was getting a little jealous of the relationship Jem and I had. So then she started hanging out with old widow Ms. Maudie Atkins. I heard that while she's at her house they talk about Mr. Radley. On my last day at Maycomb Jem and i sneak over to the Radley place to check it out. Then next thing we know Scouts here with us. So we walk around trying to see if we can see inside. Then we see a man with a hat and a flee. Then we heard a gunshot go off and when we hurry home Jems pants get caught on a fence so he has to take them off to get away. When we get home Mr. Atticus asks Jem what happened to his pants and I told him we were playing strip poker and then Jem told him we were playing with matches. Before that we heard that shot was Mr. Radley shooting at an African-American.

Journal #1

Journal #1

Chapters 1-3

Perspective of Scout



Well today was my first day of school and it didn't go so good. The teacher, Mrs. Caroline, is really mean to me. Just because my Daddy taught me how to read she was mad and also made me feel bad about myself. At recess I told Jem about everything that had happened. He said that it was how Mrs. Caroline taught kids. At Lunch Walter forgot to bring his lunch to school so Mrs. Caroline gave him a quarter to buy lunch and told him to pay her back later. But Mrs. Caroline doen't know that Walter's family is poor and don't have any money. They only pay my dad back in food for leagal troubles. But when I try to explain this to her she doesn't understand and gets mad at me and hits my hand with a ruler. When I went back to lunch I rubbed Walter's nose in the dirt for getting me in trouble before my brother got in the way. Then he ivites Walter to dinner at our house.