Atticus

Blog #4
Chapters 9-12
Perspective Atticus

Lately has been really rough. My kids have been fighting with people just to defend me, our neighbors house burned down, and our other neighbor died. Misses Maudie handled her house being burned down pretty good. She actually was pretty happy that it burned down. She said that if it wouldn't have burned down by it self, she would have burned it down her self. She told jem and scout that she was going to build a new house and she was going to expand her garden.
Miss dubose was talking a lot of trash about me defending a black man. When jem and scout went down town, they bought a baton. When Jem found out that miss dubose was talking about me, he went into her yard with his baton and ruined her whole garden. We then later found that miss Dubose had past away.
I have been trying to teach my kids right from wrong but its really hard because they are so protective and territorial, like mockingbirds. I feel bad that I had to shoot that dog and have my kids find out that that I had a skill that was not really good and I am not proud of it. I'm glad that Calpurnia took the kids to the negro church. They got to see another side of Calpurnia and find out more about her and her culture.