Once I got home from school I spotted Scout chewin' on somethin' that looked like gum. When I asked her where she got it she told me from a tree.
“Scout, you spit that out right now, ya hear!” I exclaimed, “I'll tell Calpurnia on you if you don't.”
I could tell that Scout would rather take an order from me than be tormented by Calpurnia, so she spit out that dirty chewing gum right away. I asked her what tree she'd found it on just out of curiosity and she told me that she'd been wandering over by the Radley's house. Didn't she know better than to do that? After scolding her we spoke of how summer was near which meant Dill would be comin' to Maycomb soon.
On the last day of school, me 'n Scout walked home and she pointed at the tree where she'd found the gum. Inside the knot of the tree, there was a small box that looked like somethin' you'd put a wedding ring in. Although we'd always evaded the Radley house, we greedily took the package and ran home to open it up. Inside we found a few polished coins. When I looked closely I saw that they were Indian heads from 1900 and 1906. Scout was too young to understand the importance of these old coins so I told her how valuable they were and that the person they belonged to would miss 'em. We ended up makin' a unanimous decision to keep them 'til school started up again and ask the kids at school then. Two days later Dill arrived with tales of his train ride and how he'd met his father.
“I also helped the engineer a bit today,” announced Dill proudly.
Scout scowled and claimed she didn't believe any of his tall tales.
“Hush, you two!” I exclaimed, clearly annoyed.
“Make us up a play to act, Jem,” Scout suggested.
“I'm tired of making up those,” I said.
Dill suddenly announced that he smelled death and Scout told him to hush. I teased them of being afraid of Hot Steams and when Dill asked what they were I explained. Scout opened her big mouth to get back at me for sayin' she was afraid and said I was terrified of the Hot Steams.
“How 'bout we roll in the tire?” Scout asked.
I reminded her I was too big to fit in the tire, 'sides I was mad at her for sayin' I was scared of Hot Steams.
“You can push,” Scout was so full of great ideas today.
I agreed and waited for her to get into the tire. Instead of lightly pushing the tire I used all of my strength to send my sister flying. I was still in a state of tyranny when Dill yelled at me to run and help her. My mind was snapped back into focus as I chased her, while screaming her name, down the road and into the Radley's front yard. It took her a while to get out of the tire and quickly run back to saftey but she was uninjured.
For days after that, Dill and I excluded Scout from our meetings in the treehouse because since she was a girl and the youngest, she was the most likely to tell of our plans. Dill 'n me decided that on Dill's last day in Maycomb for the summer, we would sneak into the Radley yard and try to get a peek at Boo Radley in his house. The day had finally come so when it came time to carry on with our plans, we told Scout and warned her to keep her mouth shut. With Dill and Scout by my side, I came up with a plan to lift Dill up to the window and see if he could see anything. Dill didn't see anythin' so we tried the back window but when we got there, there was a shadow of a man coming towards us. We quietly tried to make it back to the gate and I demanded for Scout and Dill to run to the fence by the school yard. On our way there, we were startled by a gun shot which made us decide to run home.
When all of the neighbors were gathered around the Radley house to see why they had heard a gun shot, we joined the crowd, as to not seem suspicious.
“Jem, son, where have you been and where are your pants?” Atticus asked me firmly.
“Uhhh...” I had no idea how to answer but Dill, being the wonderful liar, made up a story that convinced Atticus of why I had no pants on. In the middle of the night, I snuck out and retrieved my pants from the Radley yard. My heart was beating faster than ever as I returned to bed seeing that Scout was teetering on her bed nervously awaiting my return.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Chapter's 4-7 in the perspective of Jem
Posted by Camille at 6:29 PM
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I like how you make some quotes more important than others in the chapter. I like how you put words like greedly take it back because it makes it a diffrent comparison to the action that is going on. I like how you put their old English in their sentences. I think you used Jem's perspective well when you write by saying the more important things more directly in the journal.
I like how just like in the book you talked about the seasons changing suddenly. I like how when you use quotes you don't use them directly from the book but make them yours. I really enjoyed how you kept the style of writing the same as the book and you used facts from the book like mentioning where the Indian heads were from. I think you showed Jem's character really well and you had a good ending.
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