TKAM Journal#7

-Jean “Scout” Louise Finch
5/31/09

Summer has come to an end. School has started so has the terrifying walks by the Radley place. I think I'm getting too old to be scared. There is also something I'm really anxious about. It has me thinking all the time. If I could see Boo Radley just once in pure skin and bones. I want it more than I want Dill to come back. I don't know If it can ever happened because Atticus just tells me to stop thinking about that so does Jem. I think I will just forget about it.

However, ever since school has started Miss Gates has been lecturing us about Hitler.
He's wicked crazy so far that I know about him. The way he treats the Jews is unnecessary. I think I hate him but Atticus says that I shouldn't hate anyone. Miss Gates doesn't like him either. Talking about Miss Gates the other day I asked Jem something about her and he got real furious. It made me want to cry. I don't like it when Jem gets mad at me.

Well anyway Halloween is here. I dressed up like a ham. The costume came out to be pretty successful but it did bother me. Anyway I participated in a Halloween contest that the school set up. After it was all over Jem and I walked home. It was so dark outside. I couldn't see anything. It was so hard for me to walk especially with my ham costume. Suddenly, Jem heard something. He said he clearly heard someone. I was scared. He said it was probably Cecil trying to scare us. So we didn't fall for it and just kept on walking. We had reached the end of the road then suddenly someone starts running behind us.


Run!” Jem yelled at the top of his lungs. It was too hard. It was completely dark and my costume was bothering me. I lost my balance and fell. Then Jem dragged me all the way to the road. I then heard a cracking noise and Jem screamed. I try to run toward him and then someone squeezed me. I couldn't breathe. Someone suddenly pulls the person that attacked us away.

Suddenly there is a strong smell of whiskey. I stumbled home then the light of my house I see a man carrying Jem. When I get home Aunt Alexandra immediately calls Dr. Reynolds. I was so scared. My heart was throbbing. Is Jem dead? Then Dr. Reynolds says he 's only unconscious and he has a broken arm. At least hes not dead.

The man that carried Jem home was in the room but I wasn't sure who it was. I didn't recognize him. Suddenly Mr.Tate appears and informs us that Mr.Ewell is lying under a tree, dead, with a knife under his ribs. It was him all along.