The new kid/teacher

Journal #1
Chapters 1-3
Perspective: Scout

Dear Journal,

I met a new kid named dill. His real name is Charles his name is longer than him.

When we first seen him we thought he was a strange little kid but we started to like

him a little bit. Dill dared my brother Jem,, to get Mr. Radley out of his house. Jem

was too afraid to knock on the door and make him come out so told Jem to only touch

the house. He was so scared at first but he knew he had been dare and he never turned

down a dare. I didn’t think that Jem would do that he looked so sacred I would have

been to. That house is one of the creepyest and scariest things I have ever seen in

my life. It was my first day of school my new teacher was not very nice. She whipped

me and told me to stand in the coner just because I knew how to read. She said to

tell my dad to stop teaching me and thats the teachers job. Later she also offered

Walter Cunningham a quarter because he had no lunch. “You can pay me back tomarro

Walter” she said. But he just stood there and shook his head. He was poor he couldn't

pay her back and, he probably never seen quarter in his life. He came from a poor


family that only repays with food from their farm. I explian to her that he was poor

and probably never seen a quarter in his life. I also told her he couldn't pay her

back. She just stood their looking at me like I was jokeing and making this up, but

it is true he is poor.