Journal #2 4-7

The door opened.  Scout scurried in through the door like something was chasing her.  while I was trying to figure out what she was running from I noticed that scout was chewing a hug piece of gum in her mouth.  Scout means well but she often comes off rude or obnoxious.  She was making a lot of noise with her mouth but I decided to ignore it for as long as I could.

"Scout, why were you running like you were being chased?" I asked.

"well, you see, I was walking home from school and I saw a piece of tin foil in the tree in the Radley home.  And I leaned over and grabbed it and it was chewing gum! So I ate it!" she explained.

"What? Scout you are never supposed to go or touch Boo Radley house.  Doncha know he will kill you! "  I exclaimed.

I didn't know anything about the Boo Radley house that was an actual fact but I have heard rumors about it, bad rumors.  Even if Boo Radley never killed anyone or wouldn't ever  kill anyone he still was mysterious and I didn't want my little sister to mess around inside the yard. 

"Scout, please spit it out."

" but Jem, its really good!"

"Now, before I tell Culpurnia on me."

I knew this would work because Culpurnia yelled at scout the other day for making fun of how the Cumington boy ate.  Scout spit out her gum and continued on.  It seemed as though Scout wasn't very happy during the year and somewhat bored most of the time.  I could tell from the facial expression on her face and her body language.  I think it was the new program in school.  She is ahead of everyone in her class and she is probably bored from listening to her classmates try to read.

Summer soon came and and scout and I were definitely ready for summer.  The first thig that we did and that we do every summer is roll each other around in the insides of tires.  We were having fun until I rolled scout in from of the Radley stems.

"Come on Scout! Lets get out of here"I yelled as Scout was laying right in front of the yard.

Scout got up and she quickly got out from in front of the house.

"Jem, I have a new game," said Scout.

"Well what is it than'" I said.

" It is going to be called "Boo Radley," Scout said in a scary voice

At first I thought this wouldn't be good considering that she had the courage to take something out of the tree of Boo Radley's house.  I did want to hear the idea for Scouts new game though.

"Okay, so we are going to act as the Radley family," Scout said.

I thought this idea was silly but I couldnt hurt scouts feelings.

"Sure," I replied.

As the summer went on and on our game became modified and complicated as we acted out the Radley home or at least how we though the Boo Radley home operated in the inside.  One day we were playing and Atticus came out.  We stopped out game and stood suspiciously. Atticus asked us if our game had anything to do with the Radley.  I told him that it didn't.   From than on I felt some resistance from Scout when I wanted to play the game.  Scout was probably scared that Atticus would get mad at them but there seemed to be something else on her mind.

As the summer went on Dill and I became good friends and we continued the Boo Radley game.  Scout spent most of her time talking to the widow next door named Ms. Atkinson.  I had no clue what they were talking about but it seemed like the more she talked to her the more she didn't want to play the Boo Radley game.  It came to me though that since Dill and I had become such good friends that Scout might have felt left out from the planning that Dill and I did.  Dill and I were very curious of what Boo Radley looked like and if he was even alive. So we got a note and asked if he would like to get ice cream.  Dill and I attached it to a fishing poll and was going to attach it to his house Dill and I held the fishing poll and we were about to attach it and than Atticus came out.  Atticus got angry at us and told us not to bother Radley by playing the Boo Radley games or trying to attach notes to his house.