Jounal #4

Journal # 4 .

Chapters 10–12
Perspective: Jem

Dear Journal,
So Scout and I were out hunting, when I Tim Johnson, the old huntin’ dog, moving funny far away. Cal said that he was mad. Scout and I saw Atticus shoot him in one shot; now that’s real hard. Miss Maudie says that Atticus used to be—and still is I reckon—the best shooter in all of Maycomb and Abbott County. She said they used to call him One Shot Finch, er Ol’ One Shot. This made Scout mighty happy, cause she’s been havin’ a hard time with our CONTEMPORARIES talkin’ ‘bout their dads bein fit and playin’ with em. She was not proud in any way of Atticus.
Scout and I walk past Mrs. Dubose’s house every day on the way downtown. She’s awful in 3 major ways: she’s rude, disrespectful, and ANTAGONISTIC. I got mighty mad at her one day for sayin a mean thing ‘bout Atticus. I’m used to hearing the kinda stuff she said, but from chillun, not adults. I got so mad about what she said that I destroyed every flower in her garden with a baton that I gave Scout. I knew I was in considerable PERIL, for if she came out she might blow my head off. My punishment was cruel. I had to tend to her garden and read to her for an entire month. This was horrid, but the time reading to her was alright because she wasn’t awake for most of it. She would always have fits before I started reading and whenever I tried to CONTRADICT her she would yell at me. But Atticus went over to her house one day, and returned hours later, and nearly INAUDIBLY pronounced her dead. I was in shock even more when he explained that she was a morphine addict and that’s why she was so mean. I felt horrid.
Atticus left to deal with political issues for a couple weeks, so Calpurnia took us to her church on Sunday. My assumptions that this would not be a good idea was INFALLIBLE, within a few minutes of arriving at the church, LuLu insulted us and bugged us. But Reverand Sykes explained to us why LuLu was like that. Aunt Alexandra also came to live with us for a little while.
Until next time,
-Jem