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