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.