Journal #4

Chapters 10, 11, & 12

Perspective: Jem

I don’t like how old my dad is, he’s not the same age as the others he’s older. He can never do anything with Jem and me. If we want to play football we can’t jump on him because his back starts hurting. The other dad’s play around with their kids sometimes I get a little jealous.

When my dad was at work Jem and I were playing outside when we see Tim (the dog) walking or limping down the sidewalk. We run in side to tell Cal, at first she doesn’t believe us. We show her what the dog looked like then we take her out to show her the real thing. The dog was just walking slowly down the sidewalk it looked like it had rabies or something. Cal took us in side and called Atticus, she told him to come down and bring a gun. She ran out side and told everyone that there was a mad dog on the loose. When Atticus came him and Heck took out there guns Heck wanted Atticus to do it. He wasn’t sure if he could shoot anymore, about 5 seconds later he shot it. I thought that my dad couldn’t do anything but that just proved me wrong. I found out that they used to call me “One-shout Finch”.

Mrs. Dubose Is a lady that lives down the street. Whenever we walk bye her house she starts yelling at us. I herd from Jem that he called Atticus “niggers and trash he works for.” so he took what she said and smashed all her plants. Atticus found out and he made Jem read to her. Some days later Mrs. Dubose died and she left Jem a box and in that box was a white camellia.

Cal took Jem and I to a black church. It felt really weird at first but then we got used to it. Aunt A came I really don’t like her she wants to move in and get ride of Cal. Right now she’s really making me mad well that’s all for now.