Journal#2 4-7 Perspective of Jem

It was nearing summer and Scout and I couldn't wait. It was the last day of school, and I was walking home. I walked down the dirty side walk sprinkled in leaves. I reached home and as I entered my house I spotted Scout. I saw Scout chewing on some gum so asked,"were did you get the gum?" "I found it," said Scout. As soon as she said she found it I almost exploded, it could be poisonous. " Scout don't eat things you find." I said. Scout argued back," It was on the ground, it was in a tree." We were both quibbling. I grumbled because I was getting frustrated with Scout. "Spit it out right now!" I yelled to Scout. My tyranny shocked her, I could see it in her face. Scout spat the gum out and I was furious when she told me she found it hanging in a trees coming home from school. "Don;t you know your not supposed to be touching those trees over there!" I yelled to Scout.

Summer was on its way and soon Dill would come back to Maycomb. Scout and I couldn't wait for summer. We went to school the next day and were finally let out for summer. Scout and I walked home from school. As we walked home Scout showed me wear she found the gum in the tree. I saw a silver piece of foil and I yelled to Scout "I see it!" I reached for the shiny piece and I held it in my hand and Scout and I ran home straight away. I unraveled the wrapping of chewing gum wrappers wrapped around a box that a ring would come in. I opened the velveted box, and there were to very old Indian head coins. The coins were made in the years 1906, and 1900. I thought for a moment, and Scout asked if the tree we found the coins in were somebodies hiding place. "Na, don't anybody much but us pass by there, unless it's some grown person. Grown person's don't have hidin' places." Scout asked if we should keep the coins. i told Scout what we would do before keeping the coins. I headed towards my room, and looked out the window and stared at the Radley's house, and thought. The I awoke from my wondering and walked into my bedroom.

A couple days later Dill came back to Maycomb for the summer again. Scout and I met Dill and he talked about his trip here on the train. "So what will we do today?" I asked Dill.

"Tom and Sam and Dick."said Dill. "I'm tired of those." Scout said. Dill stood at the porch and looked down the street. "I smell death." Dill said. Scout told him to shut up.""I do, I mean it."he said. "You mean when somebody's dyin' you can smell it?" said Scout.

"No, I mean I can smell somebody an' tell if they are gonna die. An old lady taught me how."

Dill leaned towards Scout and sniffed her. "Jean Louise Finch, you are going to die in three days." Scout got angry, so I stepped in and told them to stop there talking. There would have been a fight.

Dill and I started hanging out more and ignoring Scout. Dill and I were making a plan to try and get Boo Radley out of his house. Scout started to hang out with our neighbor. Then one day I took some scissors and started cutting up the newspaper, and then Atticus came in the room and got mad at me for cutting up the newspaper. He said that if it was today's newspaper he would tan me. Atticus was very mad. When I went outside with Dill, Dill asked if we could still hang out, and I replied, "well Atticus didn't say we couldn't.

I played more and more with Dill, and less with Scout. The more we played the less I saw Scout. We never really played with Scout anymore because we ignored her more, and she hung out with our neighbor Ms. Maudie. Dill became my best friend and we decided to make exciting games. We made a plan that we would write a letter to Boo Radley. We wanted Boo Radley to come out of his house so we wanted to slip a letter through an open shutter in Boo Radley's house. When we were putting the letter through the shutter Atticus came out and saw us. He told us tor stop tormenting him and to leave him alone. Atticus told me to give him the letter. Atticus really mad, and said there will be no more of this. He told us to stay away from the house. We were to stop bothering Boo Radley.

Dill and I spent the last couple of days playing games because today was his last night here in Maycomb. It was sad that my best friend was going to be leaving. I started to do disobey my fathers rules, and did anything Dill waited, because this was his last night. I even asked Dill if he wanted to me with the Radley Place. Scout also joined in with our scheme. Scout was completely unanimous. I teetered as I walked up to the Radley's Place. Dill, Scout, and I look through the old shutter, and we see a man in a hat. We all look at him just for a little while, and all of a sudden we hear a loud sound. It was so loud it made me deaf for a few seconds. We all jumped over the fence. I was the last to jump. As I jumped over the fence my pants got caught. I couldn't unhook them from the fence so I slipped out of them and ran to my house to fetch some pants before anyone saw me. When I ran towards home I saw a circle around Mr. Radley who was holding sniper gun. I decided to get some pants on first before I asked what was going on.

The summer finally ended and Dill went back home again to Meridian. School started, and I was a grade higher and so was Scout. Scout and I thought school was getting more boring as we moved up a grade. After school I was walking home to see my pants neatly folded on the fence

where my pants got caught. I couldn't believe they were folded. I told Scout about what I saw walking home and she was also freaked out. Scout wondered if he some them peeking into his house. She became worried. As Scout and I walked home from school we saw a present in the Radley tree. We didn't take it. Weeks later another present appears. We took the present and the present was soap figures. Oddly enough they were shaped as us. I was a little freaked out now. I didn't know what to think. A while later we walked by and we saw the oak tree was cemented. Mr. Nathan Radley said it was because the trees were dying. It was sad to see the trees destroyed.