Post 2 - Chapters 4-7 - Jem

Journal #2 by Ambar
Chapters 4-7
Perspective: Jem

Summer

Today I was walking back home from school and I found Scout chewing gum. She told me that she just “found it”. I couldn’t believe that Scout would chew gum that she didn’t even know where it has been. Maybe someone could’ve poisoned it or did something else really bad to the gum. I swear, sometimes Scout doesn’t think about what she’s doing. She could’ve been killed! Ugh. I can’t believe she found the gum in one of the Radley trees… at least she didn’t die.
The next day Scout and I were walking past the Radley place and she pointed at the tree that she found her gum in. She told me that there was something in the Knot-hole and at first I didn’t believe her. As I looked up I saw a piece of tin foil and I actually saw it. She wasn’t playing around. “I see it, Scout! I see it-” I said. I looked around and I stood on my tippy toes to get the shiny tin foiled package. I put it in my pocket and we ran home. We went to sit on our front porch and we opened the package. “Whoa” I thought to myself. There were two polished coins inside and I picked one up and examined it. They were Indian Head coins. One of them was made in the nineteen hundreds, so they were really old coins. I thought it was amazing. Scout thought that it was someone’s hidin’ place. But I didn’t think so hardly anyone passes by the Radley Place, unless it was an adult. But Scout sure did make a good point, adults don’t have hiding places… but what would we do with them if hardly anyone passed by? Who would we give them too? Oh well…
Two days later Dill came. I was so happy that Dill came back to Maycomb. Finally, someone I could hang out with other that Scout. We were outside wonderin’ what we could play and Dill said that “he could smell death” he said that an old lady taught him how. Yea right. I swear sometimes he tries to show off to often. I started to tell Dill about hot steams and Scout interrupted me and told Dill not to listen to me.
Scout wanted to roll in the tire. I didn’t wanna play because I’m too big for it. Scout wanted to go first. I was still a little annoyed that Scout interrupted me while I was talking so I was going to push the tire with all of my strength. I teetered from side to side while I was trying to push Scout down the sidewalk with all of my strength. While Scout was rolling on the side walk I noticed that she was about to crash. “Scout!” I yelled as she crashed. I didn’t move. It took me a while to realize what Scout crashed into… The Radley House. “Scout, get away from there, come on!” I yelled. Scout didn’t move, she was just lying there on the ground wondering where she was. She finally got up and she ran back and left the tire behind. “Why didn’t you bring it?” I asked. “Why don’t you get it?” Scout screamed. I got mad and I ran in the yard and retrieved the tire. “See there? Nothin’ to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’.” I said.
Calpurnia came out of our front door and yelled “Lemonade time!” we walked back to the house and got lemonade. I finished my second glass and I knew it! I knew what game we could play! “I know what we’re going to play” I said “what?” asked Dill. “Boo Radley” Scout acted like the game was malignant and it seemed like she didn’t wanna play. It seemed like she didn’t wanna be a wimp so she decided to play. This game turned out to be our daily game so our game progressed each time we played. One time when we were about to play Boo’s big scene, I got scissors from Calpurnia’s sewing machine drawer and Atticus caught us outside and asked us what we were doing. I hoped that Dill and Scout could catch on to my evasion and keep quiet.
Dill and I later grew tired of Scout because she never wanted to do anything anymore. So we would just spend time in the tree house wondering what Boo Radley might have been doing and if all of those rumors about him were true. I felt sorry for Scout because she was always alone but she never wants to do anything anymore! Oh well… its her loss.
One morning Dill and I came up with a great idea. We were going to give an note to Boo Radley. We were really excited and we hoped that he would answer. We told Scout to be lookout while we were trying to put the note on a bamboo pole and send it to the Radley place. I tried to get it off the pole but it was stuck. Atticus caught us once again and he told us to stop tormenting Boo Radley… whatever that means.
When it was Dills last night in town we asked if we could go to Ms. Rachel’s fish pool. Dill and I wanted to go to the Radley Place and try to peek into the house to see if we could see Boo Radley. We snuck in through the back gate. I was terrified, I felt like my heart was about to beat out of my chest. We made it to the side of the house and I saw a shadow. I was so scared and I just wanted to run away, but I couldn’t act like a baby in front of Dill. Someone came out of the house and we heard a shotgun. We all ran to the gate and tried to climb under. While I was getting out my pants got stuck on the tip of the gate. I was so scared that I ran and left my pants behind. We all ran to where the neighbors were and it was unanimous that we were never going to do that ever again.