Journal #2

Journal #2
Chapters 4-7
Perspective of Dill

This summer was very interesting. Me and Jem got closer this summer because we wanted to play games together and Scout didn’t want to play so we just left her out. One day me and Jem decided to write Boo Radley a letter asking him to come out. It also said that we would give him ice cream and help him cheer up. Scout walked in on us as we were talking about the letter and decided she wanted to get in on our plan. We tried to put the letter through a slightly open window that we saw. We were close to getting the letter into the window until we heard the dinner bell. Atticus asked us what we were doing and found out about our plan. We were told not to mess with the Radleys anymore and also not to act like them anymore when we play our games. On the day before I was going to leave Me and Jem decided to try and look through one of the windows at the Radley place. Scout decided to come along once again and we got to the back of the house and saw a shadow coming straight towards Jem. Once the shadow walked away Jem, Me, and Scout ran. Scout tripped and fell but got back up. Jem held up the fence for us to go under and we ran. Once we figured out that Jem wasn’t running with us we ran back and found him stuck to the fence. He ripped his pants off and ran out without them. Once we got back to our house we saw all of our neighbors gathered around the Radley place. We walked over and saw Mr. Nathan Radley standing outside of his house with a shotgun in his hand. Miss Stephanie told us that he shot at a Negro but missed him. That was a fun and exiting summer. I also ran up to Scout and gave her a big kiss before I left because I forgot that we were “Engaged”. I had asked her to marry me earlier in the summer. But overall it was a very scary but fun summer. I can’t wait to go back next summer.