Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Journal #2Chapters 4-7 Perspective of Scout

Dear Diary
 A couple days ago I passed the Radley house and I suddenly stopped and looked at what was in the tree. and i found some gum. So i took it and started to chew it. When i got home Jem saw me chewing something and asked me what it was and i said it was gum.He asked where and i said the Radley tree right that second he told me to spit it out because it might be poisons. After that every day i would look in the tree and find random things.Like cards old penny's and soap carvings of people/ Then a couple of days later Nathan Radley found out and plunged the hole with cement. I am assuming he figured out that Boo was giving us things Atticus told us to stop playing our games and that really sucks because i loved playing games with Boo. We also weren't able to get a note to him to ask him to play. It was really scary when Boo took out a shotgun and almost shot us he thought that we were black people trying  to break in to his house. Next time he said he would shoot us.       

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Journal #3 Chapters 8-9 Perspective of Ms. Maudie

Dear Diary.
Yesterday it really started to show signs of winter. It reached record lows for maycomb since 1885 . The snow was watery and very light. Then i saw Jem and scout outside building a snowman first they asked me if they could borrow my snow and I said of course! Then i saw them build a morphodite snowman. It looked a lot like Mr. Avery! Later that night i went to bed. When i woke up all i smelt was smoke then i realized that my house was on fire! So i got up and rushed out and called for help. Once the whole town was up the men started getting everything they could out of my house. Then i spotted Jem and scout standing in front of the radley place. When my house was down it almost started to spread but all the men on the roofs stopped it. Once it was all over everyone went home and i could finally be happy that my house was burnt down because i hated that old cow barn. Then Jem and scout came over to say sorry for burning my old sun hat they told me about how boo radley came out of his house to give scout a blanket. We all thought if they turned around they could have seen him.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Journal #1 Chapters 1-3 Perspective of Scout

When my brother was 13 he broke his arm and when it healed he was very happy that he could play football. I lived with my brother Jem my dad atticus and our cook calcurnia. I hated calcurnia we always fought and they would usually be won by her because atticus would side with her. She has been with us since Jem was born. My mother died when i was 2 so i never really got to know her. I didn't miss her but i think Jem did. Jem was born the first year of there marriage and i was born 4 years later.
That same summer we met Dill. He dared us to get boo Radly out of his house Boo Radly was a very creepy and scary man who lived next door to us. Dill told my brother that he was a scardy cat and was a wimp for not going onto the yard. My brothers excuse was that if he wasn't there who would take care of me. But after enough name calling by dill, Jem finally took the dare.
The first thing that we did to get boo out of his house was to go on his yard. When that didn't work we threw rocks at his window. He still didn't respond.
That year was also my first year of school. When Ms. Caroline learned that i could read she was very mad and said that my dad needed to stop teaching me and saying that it was wrong the way he was doing it.