Week 4 Homework

I never liked her for sure. I mean she called Atticus names and said he wasn't any good than the negros, or whatever she liked to called them. Mrs Dubose was always such a crooked woman, never did any good of me and Scout for sure, just shouted at us all the time. But then Atticus told us she died today. To be honest, I don't know, I guess I was kind of glad to not have to listen to her ugly voice anymore. But then Atticus told us something and well, now I feel bad. Atticus says that she had some addiction - to morphine. He said that's why she was having her scary fits and all the medicine. He said she knew she was going to die, wanted to leave the world 'beholden to nothing'. So she promised herself that she would detach herself from the morphine, and thats why she wanted me to read to her, and all the alarm clocks and stuff. And now Atticus shows me this camellia, I thought it was horrible, the way she gave me something from her annoying garden. Now, I think it looks pretty I guess. From what Atticus tells me, I guess she wasn't such a bad lady as I thought.

Atticus' Journal

Miss Maudie's house caught on fire today. No one has been telling me what caused it, but poor Miss Maudie was so shaken, can't exactly blame her. I had to take Scout and Jem out of the house with me, helped the town people to save the furniture of Miss Maudie while Scout and Jem watched further away. I walked over to Scout when the fire truck arrives, not fast enough I'd say, the house was burnt to look like nothing was left. Scout had a blanket draped over her, strange enough because I wasn't the one who gave it to her. Scout herself didn't even know who gave it to her, just said that before she knew it someone came over and dropped the blanket on her. Then Jem starts telling me about all these things they have done to make Boo Radley come out. At first I was horrified, I told them not to go near him and they shouldn't have, but then it doesn't seem like they were in much danger from what Jem tells me. Poor Scout starts to look like all the colour in her face has drained away after Jem rabbles on about their adventures with Boo Radley. Didn't want to believe it myself, the fact that it might've been Radley, but nothing is gonna convince Jem that it wasn't him. I told them to keep it to themselves, don't want the whole town noisy about all this Boo Radley trouble again, especially not with the kids.

Week 3 Homework PARK A

Part A: 


- Jem ran past the gate, quickly touched the Radley Place and came straight back out.
- They thought they say a slight flicker of the shutters in the window but nothing more.
- When the tyre hit the house, the kids thought they heard laughter.
- A shadow in the windows
- Chewing gum was stuck on to the Oak Tree in front of Radley Place.
- Different things appear in the Oak Tree that were not there before.