Journal #6
Prompt #1
Neighbors

The novel To kill a Mockingbird takes place in the 1920's in Maycomb County, Alabama. The times then, were much different from how they are now but I still think that I can relate my neighbors to Scout's neighbors in this book. There are so many characters with such different attributes but I will mainly talk about 3. They will be Dill, Ms. Maudie and Boo.
First off, I'll start with my best friend from when I was about 8-9 years old, Brett. He lives down the street from me and I remember in fourth grade that every day of the week we would hang out either at his house or mine. This is kind of like how Jem, Scout and Dill all got along during the summer. We used to do all sorts of things such as bike to this grocery store thats up the hill from our house, go to the canyon and go off the jumps that we made and ride to our friend Justin's house that was actually a pretty far distance. I ended up getting in trouble because I didn't tell my mom where I was going. It was one of those things that was a lesson for next time, like Atticus does for the kids. In the end, when we both went to different middle schools, I don't see him as often. This is like when Dill got a new dad.

Another neighbor that would be like the ones in the book is my aunt that lives up the street from us. She has always been like a second mom to us and I enjoy riding my bike or walking up to her house when I want to run away from my family. The main reason why she's like Ms. Maudie is because her house always smells good from delicious food or she is someone you can talk to.

 The last person that I will talk about is this old couple in our neighborhood that always seemed to hate us kids. When a ball would go off of our deck and into their yard, they would pop it or make us get our parents and complain to them how we were disrupting them. Another instance was when I would run town the hill to Brett's house but instead of going on the side walk, i cut through and go one the ice plant where our property was conjoined. They would get mad and tell us that it was their property even though it wasn't. The main reason why they remind me of Boo Radley is because they are always watching us from their window and even though Boo wasn't mean, Scout, Dill and Jem still felt that ill presence as I do when I go past their house.

As you can, even 90 years ago, people were as neighborly as they are now. Even though most thoughts have changed or reformed, the way people feel openly to surrounding people now can't be different from how they did in To Kill A Mockingbird.