TKAM blog # 1

Journal #1
Chapters 1-3
Perspective of Scout

When we met Dill is when it all started. He was weird at first but we grew to like him. He dared Jem, my brother, to draw Mr. Radley out of his house. Jem was too afraid to knock on the door so they came to a compromise, Jem only had to touch the house. He was so scared at first but he knew he needed to persevere. I didn’t think that Jem would do that but obviously he condescended. That house is one of the scariest things I have ever seen. There are so many malevolent vibes coming from it. Every time I walk by to get to school the house scares me even more especially after Jem touched it. At my first day of school my new teacher was being mean to me. Just because I knew how to read she whipped me. She said that it was her job to teach me not my dads. She also offered Walter Cunningham a quarter, which he had probably never seen before. He came from a poor family that repays debts with food from their farm. That is the reason why he refused to take the quarter from her. When lunch finally arrived I was so happy. Jem invited Walter Cunningham over to our house for lunch. When he started eating he poured molasses all over his plated and I asked what he was doing. He got embarrassed and I got a screaming. I didn’t know that people eat that way. I felt that I didn’t deserve the screaming because it was a simple mistake. When we got back to school after lunch one of the Ewells showed up to fill their reputation of coming to school for only the first day. When Ms. Caroline saw him she was irked. She was so scared of a small cootie. Finally when the day was over my brother and I saw my dad coming home from his job. When my dad, Atticus Finch, got in the house he grabbed the paper and we went outside. We began to read and I said I couldn’t otherwise my teacher would come after him. I told him that I don’t want to go to school tomorrow or ever again. He said we could read if you go to school and keep it a secret. I said yes because I love reading with my dad.