Journal #1
Chapters 1-3
Perspective of Jem
The past few days have been crazy. Scout and I met a new friend, and he's testing me. The biggest thing that I think has happened recently is Dill trying to get Boo Radley out of his house. We told him he was crazy but he perservered.He dared me to slap the side of his house... and I did it. I just ran up and slapped the side of his house, and sure enough, the blinds in his house twitched. I felt so very scared at that moment, but I would never tell Scout or Dill. I told them that I had to watch out for my sister, but Dill just said I was scared and he irked me so much I just went for it out of impulse. Those few steps to the side of that house felt bitter in my mouth, and shattered under my feet. As I slapped the house, I felt it splinter away into my palm, but when I pulled my hand away, there were no splinters in it. My stomach thumped with its own heartbeat. Dill, Scout and I ran to our house. The whole time I had my back to that house, I could feel his malvolent, senile, and intimidating eyes digging into my back. Before I turned around, I wanted to pronounce that if I died, I would blame Dill. But when I turned around, he wasn't there. I looked to his house, and that is when I saw the blinds in the house move. I wanted to just fall onto the crunchy brown grass and feel the safe warm sun on my shoulders.
TKAM #8
15 years ago
Very good discription about how Jem had to go and tuch Mr.Radly's house. If you belived all the storys about him, how scared would you be to have to go and run up to his house and put your hand on it? I know that I would be pretty freaked out. escpecusally after the shutters moved and it was clear that he had peeped out. I wonder if he will ever get mad at them for doing that, and thinking that he is a monster. What do you think the reaction would be if he came out of his house and started to talk to people?
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