TKAMB

Journal #3-

Chapters 8 & 9

Perspective: Uncle Jack

Every Christmas I visit my brother Atticus and my niece and nephew, Scout and Jem. This Christmas was quite interesting. The first day I arrived there I heard little scout cussing. First of all Scout being a child, cussing isn't acceptable. But the other thing that bothered me was that scout is a girl, and she should be talking with refined language. I told her to hold her tongue because it might end up getting her into trouble. Scout is being influenced by the talk of the kids at school. On Christmas we went to go visit my older sister Alexandria. Alexandria is, well, she is a lot different from me and Atticus. She is a cold hearted woman, but she is still family, so we went up there to visit her. She lives with her husband and TYRANNICAL grandson. Between Atticus his kids and I it was UNANIMOUS that Francis was a brat.

We had a nice feast of three different meats, summer vegetables from Alexandria's pantry, cake, and ambrosia. As soon as dinner was over Scout and Francis went outside as us adults had a heated conversation about Atticus's case. In no time I heard yelling coming from outside and a wild yell. We all ran out to see Francis crumpled in pain and I saw the source of his pain. Scout. I ran to her and held he hands back before she could take another swing at him. Francis went on about how Scout had called him names using words I told her would get her into trouble with. Scout was about to runaway, but I was a lot more quicker then she was. She screamed and hollered at me telling me that she hated me. We soon went home after the incident. When we got home Scout ran to her room and slammed the door. Softly I tapped on her door. She told me to go away, but I came in anyways. I told her that she got what was coming for her. I asked her if she still hated me. She said she reckoned so, but she loved me. She told me I was nice, but that I didn't know nothing about children. So I asked her as to what she was talking about. She said that I romped on her for messing with Francis without even hearing her side of the story. She told me that Francis had been the one TORMENTING her. So she used the foulest words she could come up with. I was gunna go tell Alexandria what her grandson had been saying, but Scout made me promise her otherwise. Left her to go to bed, and sat down to talk with my brother. I told him that I don't ever want to get married, 'cause I don't want kids. It's not that I don't want them, but as Scout said, I don't understand kids. We discussed this matter and I told him what scout asked me. I told him that I just told Scout some other story. Atticus got upset with me. He said that I should've answered her question. Of all the people in the world children will be able to tell if you use EVASION. So I learned a lot that night. Now I hope Scout won't be getting herself into anymore trouble!