Journal #6 - Chapters 16-19 - Perspective: Mr. Ewell

Could of killed him, Could have all gotten that Tom, Stupid kids got in the way. Damn black man, now I'm stuck here and stupid Atticus is the dumb defense lawyer. Tom Robinson raped my girl and that's that i saw it. Heck Tate should just say it, its true. I should of had my gun with me to shoot that damn black man for raping her. And Atticus's stupid kids there watching, always worried about their dad. Kept asking me about the bruises and which side they were on and I just answered that i agreed with Mr. Tate. That Mr. Gilmer was no problem he is defending me so i agreed with him. How dare Atticus defend that Tom Robinson and accuse me of beating my own daughter. Stupid lawyer also kept asking if i had called the hospital, i did not because for me my first instinct was to call Heck Tate.

He had high authority, with being the town sheriff and all. And what does me being left handed have to do with anything, huh?! Stupid Atticus trying to trick me? No way, Ill win anyway because the jury of white men go along with the white man's side of the story and not the blacks. But its still cute that his kids are so worried about him when people come to their door. They keep thinking that its a gang but there aren't any here. HA HA i laugh at Tom Robinson's excuse, my daughter is well known and people like her. And why would she go for an ugly cripple black man. Its good that Mr. Gilmer covered him with questions i can sense his nervousness which only means that I WILL WIN!

Journal #5 - Chapters 13-15 - Perspective: Jem

Wow, Aunt Alexandra is here, dang now life is going be hell. Constantly correcting us and annoying us. I can't believe everyone greeted here like that, I should have told them how bad she is. Atticus should have told us she was coming. We do not like her one bit. She can be nice at some times but she can be critical of me and Scout. Now Atticus is just the same telling us that we have to grow and change. They want us to be more gentlemen like and to scout, more lady-like. And I know Scout, it will be hard for her to emerge more like a........ lady and I guess they expect her top be like Aunty. I guess he maybe right because he is so pensive. I just don't like it when he yells at us for antagonizing Aunt Alexandra. She is racist as well, told Atticus to get rid Calpurnia who is like a mother to us, we love her and we don't care if she is black.

Aunty does, she doesn't like blacks. And I continue to see more people who dislike them. HA! i liked how Scout stood up to Aunty, but Atticus yelled at her. But I'm starting to see why we have to act more mature now, what Atticus and Aunty have been saying is infallible. I tried telling Scout but she never listens. My preoccupation over Scout is increasing . Then Dill come out of nowhere, claims to be running away from his family and walked miles and miles. Him being with Scout sort of freaks me out, so young and saying that they will get married. I doubt their attempts. She keeps fighting and her aggressiveness is going over the top, I did not like her beating me up and I'm 12 years old. But it is sort of disturbing that 7 or 8 year olds are sleeping in the same bed.

Journal #4 - Chapters 10-12 - Perspective: Atticus

These have been some upsetting days. Learning how to use guns eventually lead to the killing of animals, which i do not really agree with. I'm getting to old to warn these kids constantly `but i still have my skills in different activities. Checkers and playing the Jew's harp are some things I am good at, but i just don't want Jem and scout to become like me and lots of animals. Back then i was called O'l One Shot because i was the best hunter. I vaguely remembered my hunting days when i raised that rifle at the "mad dog" I didn't think that we were in much peril from that dog he was sad, weak, and was dying. I didn't like it, i had a advantage over it and it didn't feel right. As i control this case it is becoming more of a problem in the neighborhood for Scout. And even if they use the words Nigger-Lover as an insult i take it as compliment, i love everyone and discrimination should be eliminated, everyone should be treated equally because we are all the same.
Jem is having problems with Ms. Dubose but now that is over. From her saying bad things about me or them to Jem cutting up her bushes to him reading to her everyday after school, and finally to her death of morphine. She would go inaudible and space out to the alarm clock. Of course Jem had many reasons to destroy her flowers from racism to her wanting to contradict him constantly, which she did. A very cantankerous old lady who now can stop teasing Jem. I need to teach that now 12 year old boy to ignore the negative comments of other people. I think Jem should have learned from her and Scout too. Me, knowing Calpurnia would probably take them to church which is fine but i just don't want them learning the wrong things from folks who are like Ms Dubose. Calpurnia is nice and i think i can trust her with helping the kids understand the rest of this town and the different people, while im gone

Journal #3 - Chapters 8+9 - Perspective: Atticus

These times are too harsh. Many conflicts are appearing, I just don't think i can help out with them and take care of Jem and Scout at the same time all the time. Snow is a first here, a bit of happiness came with that, especially for Jem and Scout with their snowman that looked a bit deformed but not for Ms. Maudie she hated it because her plants would die. Speaking of Ms. Maudie, i can't believe her house (that was adjacent to ours) had burnt down and along with that I also can't believe that Boo had gotten out (it is good though that he isn't isolate much), since pretty much everyone in Maycomb was outside. Christmas wasn't all that bad, my brother Frank came over with his no swearing rule and it was amusing to see Scout try not to.

Scout does need more discipline she feels like she has to fight whenever she feels the need to defend herself or whenever someone else makes fun of her or her family. But you just need to ignore it, if someone calls you a (For Example) nigger-lover it doesn't really mean that you are one. Unless you agree with them, but that would be stupid. I hear from scout constantly that her cousin Francis is ANNOYING. Nigger-Lover also does lead us to my case. I am struggling to keep Tom Robinson, black male accused for raping a white female. I just don't think i can convince people that he is innocent especially during this racist and depressed time. I don't see why people have to be so mean to these people they mean well and they are nice clean people.

Journal #2 - Chapters 4-7 - Perspective: Jem

Oh, Scout will never learn. I always have to correct her and protect her. Like the gum she found the tree, i mean seriously that is DISGUSTING. But I can't blame her for her curiosity, Dill and I are always curious about Boo. Many people are just warning us not to annoy him but the more we get in trouble, the more we talk about him or the more gossip we hear about him; the more we want to do that and it just enhances our curiosity of him. After we were constantly scolded at, we just created a play about the Radleys which didn't turn out so good after Atticus questioned us and asked why I had scissors to cut newspaper. And the reason he questioned is that boo was looked at as a crazy murderer and one day while Boo was cutting up newspaper he stabbed his Dad in the leg. So Miss Maudie's yard was a good place to think of a plan to get Boo out of the

house.

But Dill and I's plans never worked. Such as slapping the wall of the house, trying to stick a letter through the shutters, and sneaking out at night to try and see Boo. Which leads us to to shot gun that they fired to scare us when we had been seen at night, Atticus got deeply mad at me for trying the to get boo out by asking him to come out. Scout and I are always finding things in a tree which is leading us to suspect that the stuff like sculptures and watches are from Boo. But Ms. Maudie won't let us call him that we have to call him Mr. Arthur, well at least Scout does. And what is sort of sad is that Nathan Radley clogged up the tree hole so now we can't communicate with Boo. Boo doesn't seem so scary now but the other Radley's kind or freak me out because they shot a gun and i was super scared when i was trapped by the fence.

But I think the most important thing is to keep this a secret from others and maybe find other ways to communicate with Boo.

Journal #1 - Chapters 1-3 / Dill

Wow, Maycomb is wierder than i expected. And im going to be coming there every summer. I can't be believe i compromised to come here everytime but it is interesting. Those kids, Jem and Scout sure are tall and they can show new stuff over there. But that radley place is so wierd. I want to see that crazy called Boo that they constantly talk about. His story is so eccentric and he is seen as a malevolent man of intimidation. And it doesn't seem as like those kind of people are indigenous.

So, i irked Jem to touch the house. Hah, a nasty dare but it was cool, but i want to see what he looks like so badly. The kids are fun to play different plays with,but they do have problem from what i hear, such as: before when Jem condescended to take scout to school the first day and Scout's teacher sharing stupid pronouncments. The Finches really do have a nice and good cook but i never really understood why she said Mr. Radley was the meanest man the world ever knew. These years have been tough to everyone, so i hear. The kids here are really poor and are all filthy, but they still have to persevere.