TKAM Final Journal #9 (Perspective of Atticus) CH 28-31

It's at night and it's very dark on the way to school to go to the play. Cecil Jacobs jumps out of nowhere and scares Jem and Scout. Scout and Cecil wonder around the crowded school visiting a seventh-grade classroom and buying a lot of homemade candy. The play it's about to start and all the kids go to the backstage. Scout falls asleep and she miss her entrance of the play. Scout runs to the stage when the play is over making Judge Taylor and many others to start laughing. The woman in charge of the play was accusing Scout of ruining it. Scout is so embarrass that she and Jem waited at the backstage until every single person who was watching the play left because she was very embarrass.

Scout reached home and Aunt Alexandra goes and calls Dr. Reynolds to come and see how Jem is. Mind while I call Heck Tate telling him that both of my children's had being attack by a guy in the dark while they were coming back home. Aunt Alexandra removes Scout's costume and tells her that Jem is ok and that his only unconscious and that his not dead. Dr. Reynolds arrives and goes into Jem's room. When he came in Scout room he informed Scout that Jem has a broken arm and a bump on his and that he will be all right. Scout goes to Jem's room to see who he is. The man who carried Jem and help Scout Jem was inside the house. He was inside the room and Scout doesn't recognize him. Heck Tate came inside the house and tells me that Bob Ewell is lying down under a tree dead with kitchen knife stuck under his rib.

Scout takes Boo upstairs to say goodnight to Jem and then walks him to his house. He goes inside his house and she never sees him again in her live. For just a moment she imagines the world from his perspective now. She returns home and finds me sitting in Jem's room. I read one of Jem's books to her until she fallen asleep in her bed.

TKAM Journal #8 (Perspective of Scout) CH 25-27

I was playing with a bug, Jem told me not to. I could tell he was growing up. I was about to kill it when Jem stopped me. For some reason I think It had to do with the Tom Robinson case. He made me take it outside. I asked Jem why I couldn’t kill him an he said that it had never done anything to anybody. This is like what Atticus told me about shooting mockingbirds. It was a sad afternoon because Atticus had to break the news to Helen Robinson that Tom Robinson was dead. He was not found guilty yet but he tried to escape from the jail and was shot 17 times. You would think that after a couple the people would stop. I thought that this was like killing a mocking bird because Tom Robinson obviously didn’t do anything wrong. All he did was work for the towns people for free. Even Link Deas would agree. He charged Mayella nothing to work and than shetuned her back on him and he died because of it. No one understood Tom. There were articles written that said that the death of Tom Robinson was like killing a songbird or a mocking bird. Dill left and I missed him very much. He was my fiancé and we were soon to be married.

When School started we started going pass the Boo Radley place. We weren’t afraid anymore though we would just walk by as if it were ms. Rachels or Mis. Maudie Atiksons house. Around a few weeks in we did current events. I was currently unaware of ww2. A boy in my class told the class that there was a man named Hitler in Germany who was a very mean man and was capturing jews and putting them in camps. Our teacher said that Hitler was a bad man and Germany persecuted people and the U.S. didn’t. I was very confused about this. I went and asked Jem about Ms. Gates being a hypocrite. I had heard ms.Gates right when she came out of the courtroom say that it served Tom right. He got really rough with me. I hated when he was mean.

TKAM Journal #5 (Perspective of Jem) CH 13-15

Aunt Alexandra say's that she is going to stay more time with me and Scout to give Scout a feminine influence. Aunt Alexandra is very proud and happy about our family and she spends for time talking about the characteristics of the other families in Maycomb. Aunt Alexandra gives Atticus her opinion that he should make us learn about the subject of out ancestry. He thinks about her opinion and he says yes but the only thing he gats is to Scout cry.

The case of Tom Robinson and the role of Atticus as his defense lawyer make us the objects of whispers and glances whenever we go to the town. Scout asks Atticus what rape is and the subject of us going to Calpurnia's church comes up. Aunt Alexandra then tells Scout that she cannot go back to the church next Sunday because Calpurnia is a bad influence for the kids. Aunt Alexandra tries to convince Atticus to get rid of Calpurnia because they don't need her any more but, Atticus refuses because he thinks that they still need her. Scout gets very angry and attacks me. Atticus brakes up the fight and send us to bed. Scout hears something under her bad and she calls me in her room to see what's under her bed and we discover that Dill is hiding under Scout's bed.

Dill tells his story why he came back and why. He said he run away from his house because his mom and his new dad never pay him any attention at all. He took a train from Meridian to Maycomb Junction fourteen miles away and covered the remaining distance by walking and going at the back of a cotton wagon. When his finish telling us the story I go and tell Atticus that Dill had run away and that he was at Scout room. Atticus tells Scout to go bring more food than just a pan of cold corn bread for Dill because he was very hungry this day. After Dill eats and then we all go to bed to go to sleep. Dill goes to my bed to go to sleep but after 10 minutes he got off my bed and then climbs to Scout's bed to talk about a lot of things.