Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Chapter 11
Chapter 11
Jem lost his temper today with an old lady we
know. The old lady is Mrs. Dubose and she isn't a pleasant woman. Atticus
always tells us to be polite and treat her nicely, but she's so rude it's
impossible to. Today she yelled at us while we were passing her. She kept
yelling at Jem and telling him how Atticus is a "nigger" and how he's
"trash". Jem gets so mad at her that he destroys all of her camellia
bushes.
Jem was obviously
punished for doing what he did to Mrs. Dubose bushes. Mrs. Dubose made him go
to her house everyday and read to her for a month. Atticus forced Jem to do as
he was told to, and I tagged along. Jem and I both noticed while Jem would read
to her that she would have fits. We never understood why this would happen, but
she'd always fall asleep. Jem would read to her for hours some days. One day,
Atticus came home and told us Mrs. Dubose died. Mrs. Dubose gave Jem a camellia flower to show that she wasn't a
horrible person. This is a picture of the flower she gave him. Atticus
explained to us that she was a morphine addict and she was trying to recover
before she passed away. He said that he never saw someone so brave and have so
much courage.
Chapter 9
Chapter 9
During school today I got into a fight. One of my classmates Cecil
Jacobs was calling Atticus horrible names. I got so angry at him for offending
my father in front of everyone. He kept taunting me chanting,
"Scout Finch's daddy defends niggers." He was non stop making fun of
my dad even when I asked him to stop. I couldn't take it any longer so I ended
up attacking him! I honestly thought he deserved it. This picture shows how the
fight happened and my anger towards Cecil.
Every time during
Christmas we stay at the Jack Finch's Landing. Jack is my uncle and I love him... we usually always get along. This
Christmas Francis was at the Landing. Francis is my Aunt Alexandra's grandson,
and he's my cousin. Aunt Alexandra always tells me that I need to start
dressing and acting like a lady, but Jem tells me not to listen to her. I can't
stand Francis. I don't think I've ever met anyone more boring then him. I was
talking to Francis and he kept telling me how Dill is a runt and how my father
is a "nigger lover". I got so irritated with him thought I beat him
up too. I ended up telling my Uncle Jack why I fought him, but I made him promise
me not to tell Atticus because I promised him that I wouldn't get into another
fight over him after Cecil.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
We haven't gotten snow in Maycomb for as long as anyone in this town can
remember. Today we got a light snow fall, and it was enough to get us off of school! Jem and I
wanted to make a snow man but we didn't have enough snow on our lawn to make
one :(. We went to Miss. Maudie's house and carried as much snow as we could back
to our lawn. We showed Atticus our creation and he told us it looks exactly
like our neighbor Mr. Avery. I thought this was very funny, and we all had a good laugh.
That night we had the
storm, Atticus woke me up in the middle of the night! Miss. Maudie's house
caught on fire! Atticus orderd me to go outside with Jem and stand at the corner
of the street by the Radley's house. There were fire trucks everywhere and the
whole neighborhood was crowding around her house! Everyone in the neighborhood
was trying to save her furniture! I couldn't believe her house
burned to the crowd. The fire men couldn't save her house in time. Jem and I
talked to her the next day and she was surprisingly calm about losing
everything she had; and trying to see the best in the situation. I got a photo of
the house burning!
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Jem and Dill were planning on sneaking to Boo Radley's house to try and
catch a glance of him. So I tagged along. We tried looking through a lot of windows
but at first we couldn't see anything. Then we saw him... Boo Radley! I
remember perfectly that the man was wearing a hat and a fleece. Someone then shot a gun and we panicked. We ran to the school yard and we crawled under the
fence so no one could catch us.
Once we got home we saw that the whole neighborhood was crowding the Radley's house. Jem and I were asking all the neighbors what had happened as if we didn't know. Miss Maudie, one of our neighbors, said that Nathan Radley shot at an black man in his yard. All the neighbors say that Mr. Radley is waiting to shoot at anything that trespasses on his lawn again. Atticus then notices Jem isn't wearing any pants. Dill tells my father that he lost in a game in strip poker, but we know they really got caught on the school yard fence.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
I was so to start school today and of course... it was already horrible! Miss. Caroline was angry with me because she said I'm too intelligent, and ahead of the class. Miss Caroline told me whoever is teaching me things out of school, needs to stop. No one is teaching me at home, though. The only learning I do at home is when I read with Atticus every night. I really don't like school but Atticus told me if I kept going we can continue to read every night.
Miss Caroline then orders us to get out our lunches.
Walter Cunningham is in my class; he's very poor. His family is farmers and this depression hit them hard. Miss
Caroline offered Walter a coin to buy at lunch, but Walter refused. Miss
Caroline was very confused to why he would deny her offer, and I tried to
explain the Cunningham's situation to her. I explained to her that the Cunningham family
doesn't take offers from people because they can never pay the people back.
Miss Caroline thought I was nuts and didn't believe me.
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