A journal response to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird from Scout's perspective
Dear Journal,
Summer
is over now, and I am old enough to enter the school, which my brother Jem is
in. At first, I was looking forward to get into a school, but after my first at
school, I start dislike school. I guess the main reason is my teacher, Miss
Caroline. She tried to prevent me from learning by myself, and telling me not
to write before grade three. Miss Caroline is new to Maycomb County, so it is
not surprised when she forced Walter Cunningham to take her quarter for lunch. The
one thing that I can’t quite understand is that when I explained that the
Cunningham never took anything they can’t pay back to Miss Caroline, and she
picked up a ruler, gave me several quick pats, then told me to stand in the
corner. I don’t think I did anything out of order.
After the first day of school, I really
miss what happened during the summer where Jem, Dill, and I were playing
around together. To be honest, the only thing I remember clearly from summer is
the time when Dill persuaded Jem to touch the Radley’s house, and Jem was
freaked out of his mind. After all, Jem still did it and we dashed back to our
home as if Boo would come to us. Well, we have never known
anything in detail about the Radley since Atticus doesn’t want to talk about
it.
Maybe I shouldn’t write that much in my journal
since Miss Caroline doesn’t like it, but who cares. I’m still going to copy out
a chapter from the Bible, in order to get an open-faced sandwich of bread with
butter and sugar from Culpurnia.
