journal #1 chapters 1-3

Perspective of scout:

           My father is a very sucsessful lawer in  maycomb which by the way just happens to be a tired, poor, old town in the hands of the Great Depression. I live with him and my brother and most of the time our house keeper Calpurnia. i never met my mother seeing she died when i was two years old. My brother being four years old then me has memories of our mom but dad doesn't like to talk about it. There is a kid next door and his name is Charles Baker Harris but every body just calls him by his nick name dill. We all act out storys that we have read.  one day dill just got board with that so he tells me and jem that he wants to mess with Boo Radley our neighbor who lives in the scary house down the block. dill convinces us to go to the house with him and then he even convinces my older brother jem to go and touch the house and then he came running back with fear and although no one else saw the shutter open i did. Now that it isn't summer anymore dill gos back to his home town and school is getting ready to start for the first time for me. And i meet my teacher Miss Caroline Fisher (ugh) and she is not one that works well with children. when i started readingmy teacher had noticed that some one had been teaching me how to read already and i told her it was my dad and she told him that he could not teach me any more because she siad she had to teach me. My friend Walter Cunningham was saying that he was hungry and he did not brought a lunch, so Miss Caroline offers him a quarter to buy lunch, telling him that he can pay her back tomorrow but being a very large and poor family i new he would not be able to pay her back so i tried explaining his circumstances but she didn't undersand and so she got very frustrated and smacked my hand very hard with a ruler. At lunch, I rubbed Walter’s nose in the dirt for getting me in trouble, but Jem stoped me and invites Walter to lunch. then when we get back to the house i got really mad at walter and was iritateing him and Calpurnia noticed and she took me into the kitchen and scolded me and she slaps me when i was close to getting back to the dinning room. after that when we got back to school, Miss Caroline becomes terrified when a tiny bug, or “cootie,” crawls out of a boy’s hair. that boys name was Burris Ewell who was from an even poorer family/clan then the Cunningham family/clan.