Post #7 chapters 20-24 from the perspective of Dill

I was outside calming myself down, trying not the think about all those things that were said to Tom Robinson. I could not take it anymore I finally had to just get out of that courtroom, so me and scout left very quietly and went outside. When we went out there we saw Dolphus Raymond sitting there drinking his usual, whisky. We were standing there watching him; I was sitting down holding my stomach because I felt like I was stuck in a predicament that I couldn’t get out of. I was sitting there when Dolphus Raymond came over and asked if I was ok. I was thinking of all the things Scout told me about him I didn’t really know what to say, but I finally just said yes I’m fine. He thought I didn’t and he offered me something to drink, I was not sure about drinking this but he said it was coca-cola. I was so confused about this so very slowly I took a drink while Scout was talking to him and it was Coca-Cola. I told Scout acting so surprised and he said what did you think it was. I told him the truth and he told me the whole story of why he actually puts it in a bag and acts drunk. I had a major apprehension on this; I did not think this man would be so nice (it was so surprising to me).
I was finally fine and we told Dolphus goodbye and that was the end. We walked inside very steadily and went right back up to our seats and sat back down. Jem told us what happened and it was time for Atticus’s ending statement. He went on and on about how Mayella’s guilt was really true, but I know deep down that he knew the jury was not going to take. He did a very good job of being able to sustain the jury, but finally it was over and it was time for them to deliberate. But as Atticus was just finishing Calpurnia walked in and was walking down the aisle, me, Jem and Scout all looked at each other. She was walking down the aisle with something in her hand she handed it to Atticus and had a puzzled face. He asked where we were, and we were so scared of what he might do, he asked where we were and he found us and told us to come right down. We all got up and went downstairs. Atticus and Cal were waiting for us down there we went right to them. Once we got down there right away Jem asked if we could come back and he said yes which I thought to me was very improbable. But he said eat supper slow because the jury needs to deliberate.
As we were gone we did not want to eat supper fast, Cal had told me to check with my aunt that I was there the whole time and she seemed fine. After a few hours we went back to find out the final answer. Unfortunatly I had fallen asleep because I was so tired and couldn’t take anymore. Although before I fell asleep I knew Jem was going to wake me up and tell me so I knew I was fine.
As I got woken up it was from Jem because he told me to listen up, and yet Tom Robinson was guilty as I was waking up. I saw Atticus packing up and walking out the door, as he walking up everyone in our seating area stood up and as did me, Scout and Jem. Atticus walked out and we all went after him. Jem was upset and was practically crying which was very inevitable, me and Scout both looked at him. We didn’t really know what to say, but Jem did once we caught up with Atticus. He said that he was so upset and he knew it wasn’t right. And I believed him it wasn’t.

Post #6 16-19 from the perspective of Mayella Ewell

I was sitting on my front porch as I usually did I would always indulge myself while I was sitting here because I would always have Tom work in my yard. When something came to my mind, Tom Robinson was about to pass by as usual I had remembered all that work he had done and remembered I had told him I would give him a nickel. So what I did as soon as he passed by I called him in and told him I still owed him his nickel from all the hard working he had done for me. I felt for once I needed to give someone something for doing hard working for me. I let him come onto my porch and into my house I told him to wait a second and I would be right back with his nickel.
As soon as I knew it he was coming up behind me and beting me and raping me. I never expected this from him as soon as he grabbed me, he grabbed me tight and I could not escape from the brace of his arms. He held onto me tight and practically choked me and was hitting me, he held me by choking me and beat me with the other. I tried to fight back but he was embracing me so hard that I couldn't get out. I was screaming and yelling and he knocked me out by hitting me so hard in the eye. I was still screaming and yelling for my dad. I didn't know what else to do because I could not squirm out of his arms. Finally I saw my dad in the window and Tom dispelled from my house in a second and there I was left on the floor and soon enough I was knocked out.
As soon as I woke up I saw Heck Tate in front f me trying to help me and trying to ask me questions. I could not talk or move I was in so much pain that I just felt like laying there and never moving because I was gurting all over my body.
A few weeks later it was time for the court case to start, I was all ready to answer my questions with my side of the story, I knew it was going to be hard but I had to. I was sitting there just listening to all the people talk about me and what they had seen and heard. It was so boring just sitting down doing nothing and not being able to ever get up. Although it was not so boring as soon as it was my turn to go up and answering the questions from Atticus. As soon as I got up their they had sworn me in and I was ready for any type of question. First thing I was asked was what had really happened in my own words. As soon as I thought about it I bursted out into tears adn could not talk at all because just thinking about it killed me inside.
As soon as I got better, I started to explain my story and what had really happened. It was pressuring me being up there on the witness stand with everyone listening in and watching me. It was hard to go through but I stayed strong and asnswered all my question with great amiably. The one thing that I was not used to was Atticus would always call me "Miss Mayella" or "Ma'am." What could he possibly be callin' me that for, I never really understood this so I got angry with him. I didn't know what this really meant so I thought it was an insult in my words so I got very angry and was disturbed by the name calling.
A couple minutes later I was all done asking questions, he asked me if I was all done talking and I started my crying up again and said I was done. I went back to my seat and finally it was Tom Robinson's turn to tell his side of the story. He went up there, swore him in and took a seat. I was watching him at one point and he seemed nervous in my eyes. He started getting asked questions and everything he answered was a big lie. His answers were very irrelevant to mine. He said that I raped him, why would I try to rape a black man. He also mentioned that I kissed him and then he just ran off. He did run off but I never layed a hand on him with my own hands only in a way to get out of his arms. None of his answers could be compared to mine or could be called prejudice to my answers because they were completely different.I did not want to listen to this anymore it was all a lie he was making it seem like the worst person in Maycomb. But I knew no one would ever not believe me over a black man so I felt absolutely and completely fine. It was finally over and I didn't have to here his lies I could finally take a break and come back later for more.

Post #5 13-15 from the perspective of Aunt Alexandra

First thing I said was come get my bags calpurnia, I had no interest in their housekeeper and I thought that she wasn't right for the Finch family. But for now she was going to take my bags into the livingroom and set them down as I welcomed my neice and nephew in. I told them the good news about me staying with them. They had seemed so excited for my plan of being a mother like figure to them.
It was my turn to take a stand in Scout and Jems life. They both needed a mother like figure around them, Jem needed to learn how to be a gentlemen and Scout definatly needed major work on her clothing and manners.It was basically time for them to emerge into a more mature level. Lets just say that the two needed a women in their life and for Scout it wasn't going to be their "housekeeper" Calpurnia. What did she have to teach them about, I mean I was the one with the real skills of raising a child. I knew that I had to show them how to be a Finch and fast.
As I was staying with my brother, I had gotten along with everyone in the town and everyone knew me so well while I was there. I would have some of our neighbors come over for tea and possibly for supper just to be nice and let everyone get to know me and know that I was going to be apart of Maycomb for a while. After supper one day, Scout had come down to confront Atticus about something. She had started talking about how she had gone to church with Calpurnia and how that was before I was seen on their front porch. As soon as I heard her start talking about Calpurnia I had to listen in on where she was heading with this conversation. As she went on about Calpurnia she had brought up that she wanted to go over to Cal's house one day and spend then night. As soon as I heard Atticus say that it was ok I jumped right up and disagreed immediatly, there was no way I was going to let her go practically on the other side of town with her. I could not let her go, I was fighting with Atticus of why she should not do this, I was reminding him that I was supposed to be her motherly figure and not Calpurnia. It seemed liek scout tried to antagonize me alot with Cal and going over to her house as if she knew I did not like her being near her or even around her. She had almost seemed like she had some type of infallible sense to herself that I couldn't honestly describe.
I had come to this town for a reason and that was to help Jem and Scout and not Calpurnia. I argued against Atticus and just told him that he should fire this women, that it seemed as if Scout was becoming connected with this women which was not making me happy at all. I now realized why scout acted this way, its because Atticus isn't as tough as he should be.
As Scout went upstairs I went to my room and listened in on the kids they would talk at times as if I was completely oblivious to their talking. But I left them talking until a certain bed time. As the night went on it got more quiet and quiet so finally I went to bed and that was the end of that.

Journal #4- Chapters 10-11 from the persepctive of Jem

It started out a normal day, Atticus was finally 50. Which normally isnt the best for him because no adult wants to get older, but we all have to go through it sometime. The fact is about Atticus is that most of my friends at school all have fun parents who work outside of an office and always play around. Atticus was one of those parents who had just sat around in his office working 24/7 instead of playing around he read his book. When he was reading it was like he was so inaudible, and we were just invisible to him and he was to interested in his book. I've always wondered what he would be like if he coudl put his book down and come and play outside with me and Scout.
Anyways me and Scout had gone outside to go play around because we really had nothing else to do. So we had gone outside, and in the distance we actually saw a dog walking around like something was wrong, I told Scout and we noticed that it was Tim Johnson. We took a closer look at him and we thought he almost looked sick so me and Scout ran in the house to Calpurnia. We went straight to Calpurnia and told her about Tim Johnson she did not believe us at first but we called her outside and she looked closely and stared. We were wondering what she was thinking all of a sudden she ran inside the house saying Mad dog, Mad dog! We followed her, she started making calls to everyone in the street, as soon as me and Scout looked out our window we saw every door and window close up, leaving the streets bare. We went back to Cal and she was trying to find the Radley's number and we said they dont have a number, never did. She said she had to warn them so she ran down the street to the Radley place and went and banged on their door. Yelling, Mr Radley, mad dog on the loose mad dog on the loose. Me and Scout both new that they wouldn't ever answer. As soon as possible Mr Tate the towns sheriff pulled up with Atticus.
The sheriff spotted the "mad dog" and got his rifle out but he didn't shoot it himself instead he gave it to atticus? Me and Scout were both thinking of what was going on, and we both knew he wasnt going to but instead he aimed it at Tim Johnson and pulled the lever and shot. Me and Scout were in so much shock from this, Atticus was walking towards the dog, we followed but yet he told us to stop right there and go back to the house. He acted like us going towards the house would put us in great peril. After this we went to speak to Ms Maudie about this, she said you didnt know that your dad was once called one-shot-Finch. Me and Scout were both so confused about the story she told us about him being an awesome shooter. Scout seemed excited about this for some reason. I asked if she was ok she said that she was going to tell all her comtemporaries about this, I yelled at her saying no you can't do this, if he wanted us to know he would have told us.
A few weeks after me and Scout wanted to walk to the town to get a few things, I was going to be nice to Scout and buy her this beton that she has always wanted. On our way there we had to pass by Mrs. Dubose's house, the meanest lady I have ever witnessed. We were walking on our way and saw her on her porch ofcourse Scout said "Hey Mrs. Dubose" she gave her a rude look and a rude response along with that. I dont know what was wrong with her but she seemed to hate us, she always said things like "dont contradict me," I mean we never went against her. We were always at our sweetest with her. So I just put it in the back of my head and went along with Scout to go buy her things.
When we went to downtown, she picked out her beton and I got my things and we were off back to the house. When we passed by Mrs Dubose's house I stood there for a second looked at her house took Scout's beton and started wacking at her bushes. I honestly don't know why I did this, she just made me so mad from how she treats us I wacked them till they were completely destroyed, then I just walked away.
When we were at the the house I heard Atticus walk in and yell my name out like he had known what happened. I went to him and he asked me did you do that to Mrs. Dubose's lawn and I said the truth and said yes I did he asked why and I yet again gave him the truth. He told me to go apologize so I did, she told me that for some reason I had to go read for her for a month and that I had to clean the mess. So I did as she said and went off.
The next day me and Scout walked over to Mrs. Dubose's house, Jesse answered the door and let us right in so we stepped in, we were surprised by the sweet smell of her house. Over in the back we saw Mrs. Dubose lying in her bed asking us to come over and read to her. While I was reading she would sometimes correct me if I spoke the word wrong or forget something to say. But as I kept going on about this but she stopped correcting me eventually. Weeks went past and it was almost time to leave her house. As it was the last day to come I had finished my last sentance and I was off, the only thing she said was "that'll be all."
About a month later me and Scout were inside the house doing our usual, playing games inside the house, and Atticus had gotten a phone call and dashed right out the door. He was gone for a little while and as he came back he came in slowly and me and Scout had to ask where he went. He said that he had gone over to Mrs. Dubose's place and we both asked why and he said that she had passed away. Me and Scout had nothing really to say to this, but Atticus did he said that she was almost inconspicuous in her own way and didnt really want to give anything to anyone in her will. But that was just Mrs. Dubose.

Journal #3- Chapter 8-9 from the perspective of Miss Maudie

Like I was everyday I would get up out of my bed and get ready for another day in Maycomb, Alabama. Yet something was different about this day, it was snowing outside, it was our first snow since 1885. I have never really seen such snow in Maycomb, it was wonderful yet my flowers would get ruined from the cold weather and all that snow coming down on top of them. I was never really fanatical about the snow just because it ruins my yard. I was so worried about my flowers I had forgotten about how cold it could get during winter when its snowing. So before I had gone outside I put on my heaviest coat and headed outside to go check up on my flowers.
Before I knew it, I had already seen Scout out and playing in the snow, she almost seemed like she didnt want to walk on it because she was stepping so gently over to my yard. The young kids having so much fun in the snow was a great site to see, Scout and Jem had come over to my yard and seemed so eager about the snow.
Strangly enough they had asked my for my snow that was laying out on my yard, sure enough I wanted it off so I let them use a large bucket under my house and hall it off to there backyard. I was debating with myself of what I should do with my flowers or my yard. They had asked my why I didn't want snow on my yard, the only reason I didn't was because of my beautiful flowers, I had spent so much time getting them that way I did not want to ruin them now. Scout and Jem would go back and forth from my yard to theirs hauling as much snow as they needed to build their snowman. The whole time I was thinking of how big of snowman they were planning on making because that was a lot of snow they took. They were both very ingenuous kids so I knew it was going to be a good snowman that they would make.
I had let them off to their work while I was placing bags over my lovely flowers, at one point Scout asked me why I did this, I only did this to keep my flowers warm. I knew they could not stand this type of weather change so quickly.
Later on that evening after the children were done I had gone into my house to try and warm up, it was so cold in my house as it was inside. I had forgotten that I had to keep the flowers outside warm somehow I went outside and lit a candle to keep them warm enough to live. While I was inside I had enjoyed myself a warm fire as well.
I had fallen asleep until I heard something burning, I had gotten up and right as I took a big smell of the smoke I had remember that I didn't put out the fire for my flowers. I went outside and flames were bursting in my little house outside which contained my flowers. I rand outside and didn't know what to do, the fire was spreading all over the neighborhood. I glanced over and saw that Jem and Scout were heading over in front of the Radley's, which was probably one of the safe spots for now. I could see the perplexity in Scout's face, and how this could have happened. I knew that Atticus would want to isolate his kids from the fire so nothing could happen to them. I was so worried that this fire would rage onto my house I couldn't stop it, all I could do was watch the firemen blow there big house onto my little house and hope.
Finally after a few moments it was dying down, Jem and Scout had asked me what I was going to do, I told them that it was alright and I was fine. Anyways I've always wanted a little extra room in my backyard for more flowers.

Journal #2- Chapters 4-7 from the perspective of Dill

Dill’s Journal
I couldn’t believe that school was almost over and time to get on my way back to see Scout and Jem again. Finally we could get back to playing again and going in the tree-house like last summer. That’s all I really thought about that year in school was thinking of all the ideas that we could do when I would go over there.
It was the last day of school, I had already known that Jem and Scout were out of school and all I thought of was I wish my school could be like theirs. I was so anxious for my train ride over there, although I didn’t really like the fact that I had to go over alone but it was worth it. I was listening to my teacher go on and on about trying not to lose your brain over vacation and read a lot. She mentioned to not try and get into any trouble. I felt like she was tormenting us with our last lectures of the school year
There it was school was out and it was time to get ready to leave for Maycomb, I was on my way to the train station to go catch my train. There it was my train heading for Maycomb; I jumped up right away and had grabbed my seat before anybody else. I was just sitting there playing with my fingers, still thinking about the things we were going to do. Maybe we could go closer to the Radley place and see Boo Radley, I couldn’t be so sure of what we were going to do. I was wondering what Scout and Jem were doing right now , I’d wondered if maybe they would be waiting for me. On the train I had helped the engineer for a little while. I didn’t really do much he just taught me a little bit on how to drive a train, it was actually pretty cool learning about everything on the train
Well I was finally there in Maycomb, Miss Rachel was there waiting for me as soon as I got off she had helped me off the train and we took a taxi to her place. Thank goodness it was near Jem’s and Scout’s place so I could walk over there to go see them right away. As I was walking over there I had passed by the Radley place, nothing really looked different there still the same looks of it.
I went over to the backyard of the house and saw Jem and Scout, I saw them and they both said hi and we already had gotten right into it. I told them all about my train ride and I told them that I was helping the engineer. Jem started asking us what we were going to play, none of us really knew what we wanted to do.
The next day we saw Mr. Radley pass by as we always used to see, we actually figured out what we were going to do right after we had seen him. We were thinking of imitating the Radley’s. What we did was we said that each person was going to be a Radley. Scout didn’t think it was a good idea but we got her to play. Originally we had just started off with a few movements but we had made up dialogue and actions, it wasn’t all that bad. Although one day we had ran into Atticus and he asked what we were doing and he had seemed like he knew because he told us to not do that.
Later on into the summer Jem and I went off on our own everyday in the tree-house planning some way to go to the Radley place. We were making unanimous planning of writing a letter to them and try and throw it into their house. We kept on to our planning when Scout interrupted she was already in there so we just decided to tell her our plan and that we were going to try it that night.
Our plan was off Scout was not so sure about it but she just went with us. We had our letter and a fishing pole to cast it off into their house. We had casted it off and it went pretty close to the house. We had wanted to go in there and try and get it closer to the house. So we went around the school yard fence and went under the fence that belonged to the Radley’s. We were so quiet under there and we had to stay that way. The Radley’s was the one house that you did not want to get caught in because you never know what they would do. Scout said she saw a man standing at the window we got scared that something might happen but then there was someone on the porch. I think he had seen us because there, the gun blew off and we ran out of there so fast but Jem got stuck and had to slip out of his pants. We had made a quick evasion as quick as possible, we had all felt very malignant after that.As soon as we got back to the house we saw a big commotion outside the house of the Radley’s and we knew it was from the gun going off. They were all talking about how he saw something and shot at it but never really got at it.

Then everyone noticed that Jem was not wearing his pants, my eyes widened and Jem had no idea what to say. But I had said that we were playing strip poker instead of him halving to say they got caught because that would not be the right thing. Finally they actually all fell for my lie and we were all off back to our houses and all finished with our long night.

Journal #1- Chapters 1-3 from the perspective of Jem

Jem’s Journal
Focusing on chapter 2

It was a week till school started, which I was not happy for but every kid wants to get a good education, well most do. Dill had originally left us in the early September. I was always thinking of how the school year would start off. I wonder what scout thinks about it to, she is always up in her little tree-house doing different things that I have always wanted to know about.

The last week of summer had gone by so fast it was already the first day of school. Atticus had volunteered me to take scout to her classes which I usually thought was a parents job but it was alright. We had gone to school a little earlier than usual just to show scout her new classes. She was going into 1st and I was finally going into 5th grade. I had to make sure that I had explained to her to not bother me during school hours. No older brother wants to be bothered by his little sister during class. I told her that it was different at school and its just different, things she wouldn’t really understand. Things that I really don’t want to explain to her.

I was sitting in my own classroom always thinking of what Scout might do during class. Usually she isn’t one to just sit there and listen to the boring lessons of her teacher. It was the first day of school starting up again. The first day of school was always the same, learning the teachers name and them trying to learn ours. Our teacher got right to work on this day there was no time to waste in their mind; they never want to get behind. This I was not so eccentric about, but who is. I had always wondered why they even start us working right away on the first day, I guess it’s because they think we lose our whole entire memory over the summer vacation. That always irked me that some kids were so dumb when the came back. This only happens with certain kids who do absolutely nothing over summer vacation who have no lives.

It was about recess time in our school and I went over to go see how scout was doing, she did not make it seem like it was so good. She seem to have hated her teacher Ms. Caroline and told her not to read which I thought was great for a 1st grader but apparently not to her, and the same with writing. I told her that it was alright and to go back to her classes. She had asked me earlier about the Cunningham’s and if we were ever going to even get that poor. I really had no answer for her, so we had asked Atticus if we were poor he said that we are but not as poor as the Cunningham’s. I was relieved in a way but felt bad for the Cunningham family and how they live.
After I was done thinking of why she would even ask such a thing I had gone back to my studies in school and went back to my reading and writing as I was supposed to. Although I was always thinking of how my sister is during class I had to get back to working and move on.