TKAM post #2

Journal #2 - Chapters 4-7 - Perspective: scout

I'm glad that summer is coming up in a couple of days so I can stop doing that stupid flash card stuff. How can you learn with them flashing cards in your face constantly. It must have been unanimous that no one liked the flash cards. Jem told me that it will get better but I think I could learn more on my own. Summer will be starting shortly so that means that dill will be coming back. When dill comes its always fun, when he showed up we didn't know what to do so we decided to play a game acting as if we were the Bradley. We were getting it down so good and started to sound like them till Atticus came and ruined all of our fun he said to stop tormenting that man. As the summer goes on jem and dill our getting closer and I feel excluded and left out. I started going to my neighbor Miss Maudie Atkinson more often she a chameleon lady who changes to what she is doing. She likes to garden and makes the best cakes. We talked and soon started talking about boo Bradley who she told me to call Arthur. As a boy she said he wasn't malignant but if he was crazy as a boy he is now she said. Jem and dill were going to stick a note in the Radley place and I went along. Right as we were leaving Atticus caught us . Dills last day came soon and they decided to see what boo looked liked I went along again. We looked though a window and saw a man with a hat we were going to move in for a closer look then BANG a gun shot went off we all scattered in a evasion me and dill took of running but jem want there I looked back and saw jem caught on the fence he had to take his pants of to get free. The adults were questing jem about his pants but we didn't get in as much trouble because they came up with a excuse of playing poker. Dill left later that day and jem went back to the Radley place to get his pants. Jems pants were mended back together but not as nice or neat as a women would have but like a man had did it. School started back up and I was now in the second grade. On our way home from the first day of school me and jem saw soap carvings in a knothole I decided to take them. As we looked closer at them we noticed that the to figures were people and had looked just liked us. we found chewing gum and a pocket watch and a spelling bee medal we wondered who wold be putting these things in the knothole but nobody besides us from school would be going by the Radley place. we thought it could be boo Radley himself. We were sad to see it after school one day the knothole had been filled up with cement by boo's brother who said the tree was dying even though it looked perfectly fine.