TKAM - Post #4: Chapters 12-15

Perspective: Scout

Dear Diary,

Today, Calpurnia took me and Scout to her church. Before we left the house to head to the church, Calpurnia dressed us up in real nice clothing and Scout and I asked why we had to wear such fancy outfits. Calpurnia said that she didn't want anybody to think that she didn't take care of her children. When we got there, everybody welcomed us except for a woman names Lula. At the church, Scout and I noticed something about Calpurnia that we hadn't known she did. She was talking like all the other folks around her. At home, she would speak perfect English and had perfect grammar but at the church, she was different.

When Aunt Alexandra moves into our house, Scout and I didn't like her at all. She was so bossy and Scout and I didn't like the way that she was yelling at Atticus. She was telling him how to raise Scout and I. Scout and I don't like her at all.

When Scout asked if she could go to Calpurnia's house on a Sunday, Aunt Alexandra just has to stick her little nosy face into other peoples' business and say that Scout can't go. Just because Calpurnia is 'black'. Scout turns around and tells Aunt Alexandra that she never asked her and Atticus makes her apologize because he thinks it is rude. After all the fussing, Scout and I got into a fist fight because I just told her to not try and be such a smart aleck in front of Aunt Alexandra. She hit me first and so I hit her back. After several minutes, Atticus came in and separated us and told us to go to our rooms. We did. We went to our rooms and Scout stepped on something and called me over to see what it was. She thought it was a snake but I told her that snakes were cold, not warm. Turns out, the thing that Scout stepped on was Dill. Dill ran away from home because he says that his parents are really nice to him, but they don't really want him to be around. They buy everything he wants to keep him away.

Sincerely,
Jem

TKAM Post #3: Chapters 10-11

Perspective: Atticus

Dear Diary,

Today, I had to shoot a Mad Dog. It had rabies and it was foaming at the mouth. It was also shaking and twitching like crazy. I really didn't want to cantankerously kill it. When I had shot the dog, Jem and Scout looked at me with amazement and they were inaudible. They didn't know that I was One-Shot Finch. Probably because I am a lot older than all of their friends' fathers. Oh well. But back the the dog. Jem and Scout found the dog while they were outside exploring with their air rifles and soon spotted the Mad Dog. They told Calpurnia and Calpurnia called me on the telephone.

When I arrived to my front porch, I spotted the dog was in front of the Radley House. Jem started to come out of the house, and I told him to stay inside because there could be peril. A while after I shot the dog, Zeebo came and took the dog away in a garbage truck, then Zeebo poured something from a gallon jug to where the dog had been laying.

A couple days later, Jem goes and ruins Mrs. Dubose's flowers. I bet he was trying to make them very inconspicuous. He did this all because he has gotten sick of her and says that he hates her. But when Jem is ruining the flowers, she catches him and makes Jem read to her for weeks. Contemporary, Mrs. Dubose dies from being a drug addict. She was an addict of morphine. She had been taking them for several years because her doctor put her on the medication. When Jem finds out she is dead, he is very upset because even though he said that he hated her, he still had a soft spot for her.

Sincerely,
Atticus Finch

TKAM - Post #2: Chapters 4-9

Perspective: Scout

Dear Diary,

I was walking home one day alone, because Jem had to stay after to finish some school work. While I was walking home, I had planned to pass the Radley House with evasion and back to the front porch. But when I was running home, something had caught my eye. It was a piece of gum. I took it home and licked it. When I realized that I wasn't dead, I shoved the piece of gum in my mouth. When Jem got home, he told me to spit it out and rinse my mouth. I had a slight feeling that he was jealous and he had wanted some. After the gum incident, Dill had arrived. We went outside and were talking about Hot Steams. Which are ghost-like things that wrap around you to turn you into one when you die. When I heard Jem saying this to Dill, I was in disbelief. I told Dill to not believe it, then Jem changed the subject to play with a tire. I told Jem that I wanted to go first, so I climbed into the tire and tucked my knees up to my chest. After I got in, Jem pushed me in a malignant manner, I was suffocating and I couldn't get out because it was spinning so fast. I could hear Jem yelling behind me and yelling. Soon, I had hit a curb. I climbed out and shook my head to get away from all the dizziness. When I got a hold of myself and I could see straight, I heard Jem calling from a distance. "Get away from there! Are you crazy?" I looked up and saw that I was in the gates of the Radley House. I stood up and ran as fast as I could. I didn't even stop to get the tire.Soon, after all the tire bumping, Jem and Dill had decided to make up a game that basically reenacted all the stories about the phantom living inside. Atticus catches us one day and asks us what we are doing and Jem got red in the face and started to teeter in place.

We were over at Ms. Maudie's house again, and her and I were sitting outside on the porch looking up at the stars. After a while, I asked her if she knew that Boo Radley was alive. She said, that he was still alive and inside. The only evidence that she had to support her theory was that he hadn't seen anybody carry out his body yet. The next day, Jem wants to give a letter to Boo asking him to come out of the house to get some ice cream and meet him. At first, I didn't want to go at all. I thought it was a bad idea. But when Dill and Jem said that I was acting like such a girlie-girl, I just had to go. When Jem was about to put the letter through a window, Atticus spots us and makes his way over to us and asks us what we are doing. Atticus tells Jem to stop tormenting Boo and he also questions Jem about why he wants him to come out and Jem replies that he just wants to meet him.

In a couple days, I wake up, and I see that there are white flakes on my window and outside on the road and on the front porch. I was in perplexity I just had to call Atticus. It looks like the world is going to end! But Atticus tells me that it is just snowing. Jem and I walk outside and we see that all of the neighbors around us look very angry. Mr. Avery goes up to us and tells us that it is bad children like Jem and I that make the seasons change.

Sincerely,
Scout