To Kill A Mockingbird Journal Three

Journal #3

Chapters 8-9

Perspective of Francis

Journal,

Grandma has sent me to my room for makin' a mess at the table. I'm all right with that - it means I don't have to do dishes. Finally that girl has left our house and gone home to Maycomb County. She is so wild and fanatic it makes my head hurt. She gave me a black eye when she attacked me. I don't care, at least she got in trouble. Serves her right, she called me a whore-lady, and even though I don't know what it means I know it is bad. Grandma says that Uncle Atticus teaches her those words and doesn't do anything about it, that he can't be entrusted with children. I agree. It is bad enough that he lets them run wild and now he is goin' and defending an African American. Finches will never be able to walk the streets again, after he has gone and disgracin' the family.

I can not wait until mum and dad come and pick me up from Grandma's. The next time time they send me here I am debating whether to running away. Don't hear me wrong, staying at Grandma's is real nice and all, but I don't think I could stand to be acquainted with Scout again. Unfortunately I think that I might see her again all to soon for my liking.

After Scout got in trouble for smacking me, we went home and Uncle Jack went to go talk to Scout. When he came out, he gave me a look that Grandma and Mum give me when I am in trouble. That perplexes me and I wonder what he found out. I don't think I did anything wrong - Scout deserved everything that she got, and her father too. She is much too foolish. She thinks that her daddy is right to be defending that African American, and that she is going to marry that short boy, Dill. But the look that Uncle Jack gave me still bothers me.

Sincerely,

Francis