journal #3

chapters 8-9
perspective: jem

Today started out great. it was snowing. Snowing in Maycomb! Even though I had never seen snow before, and knew almost nothing about it, I still was excited. My sister had absolutely no clue what was happening and thought that the world was ending. So we went outside, and there was dreadful Mr. Avery. He is of our aquaintance, but i wish that he wasn't. he had an "ingenious" idea that it was our fault for the snow. that we were bad or something. anyway me and scout made a snowman, but it was modeled to look like Mr. Avery. Because he really is mean. That was funny. But by atticus's perplexity i could tell that we should disguise it.

Next came some bad news. We were woken up by Atticus and I have to admit that I was scared. We saw fire and then we gathered that it was coming from Ms. Maudie's house. Mr Avery was fanatical about the whole situation. in a few minutes there was only ash. But Ms. maudie said that she hated that house and was thinking about burning it down herself.

Next we had Christmas dinner with Aunt Alexandra, which was a great meal. Three kinds of meet, vegetables, and cake. Yum. But there was a debate which led to an argument, which led to a punch between frances and Scout. I have never like Frances, he may be the single most boring kid in the whole country. All he wanted for christmas were cloths. Plus I overheard what he said about atticus, and i would have punched him too. But at least he didn't get away with his little act of being called a whore. my sister would never say that. She is a good girl.


- Matt H