Sunday, May 10, 2009

Journal #2 - Chapters 4-7 from the perspective of Scout

Another typical day with Jem and Dill. Sitting on the ground picking grass because we havent found anything to do yet. These few moments picking grass got everyone to start thinking a little bit. As I was picking a line through the grass it reminded me of adventures. I came up with the idea of going on an adventure around the area. I told Jem and Dill and they got very excited to take this adventure. Dill tells Jem to get all his stuff ready and all of his dirty clothes on so that he doesnt get his clean clothes dirty. As Jem gets ready, i get ready as well. After we are all set we head off down the road. We head down the road a little and i start to fear some of the neighbors. I can sense danger just by looking at the long narrow road. I feel unsafe and unprotected. I was just about to speak but then shut my mouth so i didnt ruin the fun for the other two. As we kept walking we saw a house with holes in the tree. I didnt know what to expect and started to get chills down my spine. I felt very nervous and scared. Jem and Dill then wanted to go check out that tree. As we walk closer i started to chicken out and beg that we just go back home. I constantly heard Jem and Dill make fun of me because i was a scaredy cat. I felt insecure over and over again as I begged and begged to go home. After Jem forced me to go, we check out the tree.

As we walked up to the tree I saw holes in it with items in it. As we crept closer and closer we saw soap like figures. I couldnt tell what they were until we stood right next to the tree. They were soap figures of us. I gasped in fear and begged some more to run home. Jem and Dill constantly told me that we are not leaving. I didnt like the looks of this already. We've been looking through many items today and then all of a sudden someone came out of there house shooting a gun at us to get out of their property. We all ran out of the yard as fast as possible, scared to death that we were going to die. I didnt know what to think but run.

Later on that day we decided to give a note to the house asking why they have us in figures of soap but all we got stuck into again was a gun and a man. We all ditched the house and hoped to find out what was going on with the tree and the man.

1 comment:

Jp said...

One thing you should do to improve your writing style is to highlight the vocabulary words that you included in your post.

You should also meet the requirements for the blog post. Which is 1 page single spaced and 5 vocabulary words.