Journal #2-
Chapters 4-7
Perspective: Jem

It was the last day of school when scout came home; I noticed a little bounce in her step as she busted through the door. And as I tried to find out what was wrong with her I noticed some gun in her mouth.

“What’s that?” I asked her, when I found out that she had got it from the Radleys yard I made her spit it out and go wash her mouth out. However later we decided to keep to coins we found in there. After feeling a little guilty about taking it dill came. He is so full of it that I felt as if what I did was insignificant. Playing with dill took my mind of school and we enjoyed the summer months playing games. When we were pushing each other (well mostly me pushing scout) in a tire scout steered herself into the Radleys yard. I guess maybe I shouldn’t have pushed her that hard but I was mad at her for not believing me. But this made me think of a game we should play, we would impersonate the Radleys. For the next months we perfected the art of copying them but it got boring. Dill and I decided we should do something a little more exotic and we planned to give Boo Radley a letter inviting him to have ice cream with them. We left scout out on this but she has no trouble going to the neighbor’s house. Even though she was an annoying girl things were more fun with her so when she asked to join I reluctantly accepted. We decided to go during the night and use a piece of wood as a fishing rod to put the note into the window sill of their house. We were busted by Atticus but didn’t give up hope. Telling scout so that she would not tell on us we went out again to the back of the Radleys yard, and went through the back gate. Creeping up to the back window I was as scared as a sheep being attacked by a wolf. We lifted dill up to see the into the window and said there was a light on. I crept up the porch and saw a shadow. It was to close to be either dill or scout so my heart dropped and I mad off as fast as I could getting stuck in the fence and having to leave my pants behind. I was so scared and almost got cough but dill and I made up a lie as fast as we could as not to get in trouble. I went back later to get the pants and they were neatly folded and all sewn up as if someone knew I was coming back to get them. Naturally I told Dill, and also decided to share it with scout who just said I should tell Atticus.

NOTE: i did not include any vocabulary word because i did not receive the sheet from you after 8th grade retreat.