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