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.
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