Journal #2
Chapters 4-7
Perspective: Dill

Hey, It is Dill. Recently I went back to Maycomb for the Summer. It went by a lot quicker this time around. We went straight to adventures and found out many things this time. I don't know why but I think that I liked Scout. I wanted to marry her in the beginning of the summer but then I started to hang out with Jem and realized how annoying she can be. Jem was very fun this year. Let me tell you we almost got neck deep in trouble but somehow we found ourselves out of it each time. In the beginning of the summer, we played games like role play and pretended to be the Radleys. I got to be Mr. Radley, Scout was Ms. Radley and Jem was Boo. This was one of my favorite things to to because by the end of the summer we were experts at acting. And the best part is that we didn't get in trouble. there were a couple of times that we almost got caught by the neighbors however, Jem had the genius idea of changing the names so they wouldn't suspect a thing. This was one of Scout least favorite things that we did this summer. She didn't like the idea of us ridiculing Boo Radley because he was a person BUT I just think she was scared. Jem said that he was dead and they stuffed him up the chimney but she didn't believe so. She spent most of her time with one of the neighbors; Ms. Maudie. She was a nice lady but I don't know why Scoutt liked spending time with her so much. I liked her cake, thats for sure but she seemed old and boring. One thing that I will always remember about this summer was the time when Jem pushed Scout down the hill in the tire and she rolled into the Radley's driveway. I was scared watching her. She was so dizzy, she could barely get up it was definitely funny moment. But the most important highlight was after we tried to get the note to Boo through the window , when we went in the backyard of their house. On the last night of my stay in Maycomb that summer, Jem told Atticus that we were going to go by the fish pond but instead he took us to the Radley house. I thought for sure that Boo wasn't going to come but she  did and we had the most fearful night. At first, we were just going to go and peep through the window but then when we couldn't see anything, Jem took us around to the back. It was dark and spooky like the front but with uncut trees and twisted shadows. I was very scared. Then, we saw a shadow move and we discovered it was Mr. Radley who had heard us. when he left, we ran as fast as we could towards the front. That was when the shotgun went off. We hurried under the gate and Jem was so scared, he even lost his pants when crawling under. We went all the way around the neighborhood to see the people gathered to see the commotion. I had to make up a game called strip poker to cover for the absence of Jem's pants and luckily they believed it. This was defiantly a scary moment this summer that I will always remember. I still wonder what happened to Jem and his pants.