To Kill a Mocking Bird

Journal #1

Chapter 1-3

Perspective of Scout

My name is Scout Finch and I live in a town called Macomb where everyone is very indigenous. I had a lot of fun this summer and I was looking forward to going back to school but now I regret it. I got to have fun with my brother Jem and we met someone named Dale. Hes about Jem's age and he is living with his aunt for the summer. When we first met him he bragged about how he could read but I can read and I am half his age. But I liked Dill. We played a lot over the summer and it was fun to spend time with someone besides Jem.

My first day of school wasn't very exciting. I think that I really irked my teacher, Miss. Caroline. I am in first grade and I could read and write at an advanced level. Miss. Caroline thought that Atticus was teaching me and she told me to tell him to stop so she could bring back down to the first grade level. I thought that she was being malevolent to my education to try to make me stupid. So on the first day of school I hadn't made the best impression on my teacher.

The next day was worse. Miss. Caroline was walking past us checking our lunches and when she noticed that Walter Cunningham didn't have a lunch she tried to give him a quarter to buy lunch in the town. He didn't accept it and she didn't know that Walter was the poorest kid in the class and he would never be able to pay her back. I was the one who had to tell her that and that irritated her. She whipped my hands 12 times and told me to sit in the corner of the room. Everyone laughed at me and I felt terrible. So far school hasn't been great but I am hoping that it gets better.

Sincerely,

Scout Finch