TKAM POST 1

TKAM post 1 Dill

today I finally arrived in Maycomb Alabama. Its a smaller town then my hometown just a couple hours from here a town called meridian Mississippi. This is my first time in Maycomb and I will be staying at my aunt Rachel's house. i thought that my whole summer would be boring. As I was sitting in the collard patch I saw to kids looking at me. I said hey and he responded with hey yourself. I introduced my self and tried to impress them by saying I could read. they didn't seemed that impressed. The boy asked if I was four and a half I said going on 7. He told me his little sister has been reading since she was born, her name was Scout. He commented on my height he said that I looked small for a 7 year old. He then invited me over. “Lord what a name,” he said. I new from my aunt that his name was Jeremy Atticus finch and he was making fun of my name. I told them that folks would call me dill he said people call him Jem. We started to talk to each other and I told them about Dracula, and the picture shows back in Meridian. Then he told my about this house across the street. They call it the Bradley place. It was shocking on how intimidating a house could be on the kids. They told me about the malevolent man who lived in it boo Bradley. When ever something went wrong it was probably the work of boo Radley. Scout and Jem said they have never seen him because he doesn't ever leave his house. The more stories I heard the more interested I became. I wanted Jem and scout to help me get boo to leave his house. For awhile I would stand there looking at the Radley place wondering about the mysterious man who lived inside. I had decided to knock on his door when I told it to Jem and scout they asked if I was crazy or wanted to kill myself. I bet that Jem couldn't go any further then boo Radley's gate “i have never rejected a dare” he said. He was thinking about it and 3 days had [passed. Every day I would be telling him hes to scared or I would call him a names like chicken just to try and make him do it. I told him people back where I'm from in meridian were not as scared of these kind of people but people in Maycomb were. He had finally decided he was going to do it now he went to the corner of the Radley place and touched the corner of the house he then ran as fast as he could back to me and scout. When he was running back we thought we saw something peeking out of the shutters. I had decided coming back for the rest of my summers wasn't going to be that bad as long as boo and scout were there. Next year I think I'm going to dare Jem to go inside the house.