Journal #1
Chapters 1,2,3
Perspective of Jem
By Brendan Rodisch
Today I was playing in our backyard with my sister, scout, suddenly a boy nextdoor yells out that he can read. I go and speak with the boy and say that my sister can to. He doesn't believe me though so we invite him over and I show him how wrong he is. We became good friends. One day he asked who lived in the house that looked all scary. I told him it was the Radleys. This irked him and he dared me to go and touch the house. We made a compromise and he said if I did it, he would stop calling me a coward. I did it and ran home.

When he went back home we were sad. We missed him, but we wrote him letters. But my sister's first day of school was coming up and I had to prepare her for it. My dad had an eccentric plan were I take my sister to her first day and I make some money. It was gonna be tough but I knew I would preserve through it. She had a good day but I had to stop her from whalin' on another kid. She was angry because he made the teacher dislike him. Later in the day she told me about a boy that came for the first day of school only. He was indigenous to our school. My sister didn't want to go back the next day because of her teacher, but my daddy convinced her otherwise.