May 21, 2009

TKAM Journal 2: Dill's POV

It was when I came back to Maycomb that Scout, Jem and I came up with the funniest game yet, the Boo Radley game. We ran around acting out the Radley stories. I had to admit I was a chameleon in this game, one moment I would be Boo teetering side to side then I would Mr.Radley, in tyranny tying people up. We were reenacting the stabbing since when Atticus came out tormenting us in my opinion. We ran around, trading the characters up in a wild game of Radley tag when I tried dodging Scout evasively and ended up falling over, the most amazing thing happened, I looked over at the Radley house and I saw the curtains of the front window move, when no one was home. I never told them about it either, I would save this story for when I really had to distract someone.

TKAM Journal 1: Jem's POV

Me and Scout were walking to Ms. Rachel’s house because we heard something in her collard patch. We were hoping it was puppies cause her dog was expecting but instead we saw some sort of midget in them. Even though we’d never meet a midget before we decided to preserver and find out the truth about him. What we soon found out was that it was just some short kid who had moved here for the summer, he was an eccentric type of boy. Since we were indigenous to the area we took it upon ourselves to show him round. We told him about all the people in the houses till we came to the Radley’s. We started to tell him the scariest stories about them but he just got more exited, that irked me. Later then we were playing and he dared me to run up to the house. Of course I was scared but I didn’t want to show it, not in front of my young audience. We made a compromise an all I had to do was touch the house so I ran up fast as I could and touched it and ran all the way home not turning to look back.