Journal #2
Chapter 4-7
Perspective of Jem
By Brendan Rodisch

Well it was real boring but I finally did it. I’m done with the fifth grade. I am rally glad that dill has come back. He is a lot of fun. We have started a new game; it is called “The Radleys.” Basically we all act like members of the Radley family. I am Boo, scout’s Mrs. Radley, and dill is Mr. Radley. However papa doesn’t want us playing that game anymore so now we are bored. Dill and me have been coming up with schemes to talk to Boo Radley. My sister doesn’t want to talk to him so we have not been playing with her. One day we tried to give a note to Boo, but our dad found us and stopped us. I still had more plans in store.

On the night before Dill left to go back home for school, we convinced my sister to help us in our best scheme yet. We were going to go to the Radley’s house and look in the open window to try and see Boo. My papa said not to bother the Radley’s but I couldn’t help it. So we all stayed up late that night and at around midnight we crept out. We went around the back and crawled under the fence. I was to short to see through the window so Dill and Scout helped me up. I didn’t see anything, it was to dark. But there was a faint light coming from a back window. I decided to take a look.

I crawled up onto the patio, which looked really scary. I got ready to look through the window when I saw a shadow pass by me from inside the house. We were running back to the fence as fast as we could. BANG!! A gun shot rang through the air. We left as quickly as possible but my pant legs got caught so I left them and ran back home with the other two kids. When we got back my papa asked were my pants were, Dill said he won them in poker. My dad was angry and I knew it. I had to get those pants back. Later that night I crawled out of bed and ran back to the Radley’s and got my pants back. They were not were I left them though, they were folded and hung up on the fence. Without thinking about it, I grabbed them and ran back home.