TKAMB

Journal #2-

Chapters 4-7

Perspective: Jem

After coming back to Maycomb from Meridian I met up with Jem and Scout. We decided to play a game about Boo Radley. We all had characters and we would act out the various events that have occurred. We ended up making our own plot and developing it quite well. Scout was being a scareddy cat and chickened out a few times. She was scared that the Radley's would see us and that we would be history! Atticus caught us playing, and Jem lied to hime saying that weren't doing nothin'! I know Atticus ain't a dumb man so I'm pretty sure he knew what we were up to. Jem came up with a brilliant idea. In case Atticus came around again while we were playing, we would just simply change the names of our characters so no one would know what we were really doing. The three of us decided to write a letter to Boo Radley, asking him to come out of hiding. As Jem was about to go deliver it Atticus came. Quickly I sprang into action and grabbed a bell and started ringing it in his face to distract him. Sadly that did not work. I stopped ringing the bell and he got the letter from Jem. He asked us why on earth we would want to have come out of the house. I said to him I thought he might enjoy us, but abruptly stopped when I saw the look on his face. He got especially mad at Jem, maybe only because he is the oldest of us and told him to stop tormenting Boo. Honestly we were just being kids trying to "help" this poor man. Jem tried to defend us, and said we weren't making fun of him. Atticus in return said " So that's what you were doing, wasn't it?" Then he started accusing us of putting his whole life's history on display for the edification of the neighborhood." That was ridiculous I have to say. It was my last night in Maycomb and we were in a fish-pool. Then an idea struck me. I suggested to them we should go for a "walk". Jem and I decided we were just going to go peep inn the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a good look at Boo Radley, I decided to go at night 'cause no one will see us and Atticus wouldn't bust because his nose would be stuffed in a book. We snuck onto the property and walked further along. Then I saw the shadow. It was the shadow of a man. Jem leaped off the porch where he had been and ran towards us. He pushed us back towards the fence and we ran. As we started running Scout tripped. When she tripped we heard gun shots. Oh boy was my adrenaline pumping. But my fear grew and my heart was pounding. We ran to the fence by the school yard. Suddenly Scout and I realized Jem wasn't with us so we ran back only to see Jem stuck in the fence! Jem ran free void of pants. We saw Nathan Radley with a shot gun in his hand. Rumors were swirling almost instantaneously.