Journal #6: perspective of Judge Talyor

It's the night before the big case and I'm nervous and I’m in sort of a predicament. don’t want to do the case like other cases I don't want to do this like any other case but I'm the only judge here in this town. I woke up and I got dress in my judge robe and headed down to the court house. When I was heading down to the town a lot of people where coming in from all over the town. I have to go get there before it gets crowded. I could tell it is going to be a hot and long day today. When I got there Atticus and Tom they were talking amongst themselves and Mr. Gilmer was there too. When I walk pass them and I said hi and kept walking to the judge chambers. When I got there I look over the papers on the case and I filled my cigar case up. I heard everybody start to come in the courtroom so I got ready to go out. When Heck called me out I walked out. The case started and I just sat there and pulled out one of my cigars and started to chew on it. It was Heck on the stand as the first witness testimony. He said that he was on his way home when he got a call form Bob Ewell that his daughter was raped and that he needed to be their right now. So he went there as fast as he could. When he got there he said that the furniture was everywhere and that Mayella was on the ground with bruises all over her, he also described the injuries and said that she had a black eye on the right side of her face and he also sad that the injuries where mostly on the right side. Then Bob Ewell was a pauper came up on the stand and gave his testimony. He said that he went hunting, and when he got back he look through the window and, he saw Tom with his daughter and he was taking advantage of her, so he ran in the house and scared off Tom. He also said that he ran to Heck, and didn’t call the doctor for his daughter, and Atticus ask if Bob agreed with the injuries that Heck said he said yes, Atticus also asked him if he can read and write he said yes and then Atticus asked him if he can write his name and he did and he is a lefty and Mr. Gilmer asked if he is ambidextrous and Bob said he wasn’t. I was stealthy when I change my cigars.I always indulge with my cigars and how many I go through a day. Then it was Mayella's turn on the stand and she said that she said that she didn't want Atticus to do what her dad did to her, and I scratch my head.I cleared my throat and said that Atticus has no intentions in hurting you. She said her side of the story and she said the Atticus was mocking her, and I said the he wasn't mocking her and I asked her what is the matter with her. I saw that Atticus was asking questions irrelevant to Mr. Gilmer and I saw his game plan. Then Atticus was done questioning and then Tom came up to the stand to tell his side e of the story and then like 30 minutes after he got up some people left from the balcony floor.

Journal #4 Chapter 10-12 Jem's perspective

Atticus is getting old, I can see it in him, he is getting older, and weaker each

day. When he would go to our school he doesn't do the same thing as them like play foot

ball with them. he was much older than our friend's parents, When they had a parent

football game he wouldn't join he would just read the paper. When I would play football

with him, when I went to tackle him he would stop me. He never went hunting or play

poker with the people in the county. He didn't drink or smoke he just read in the

living room. Uncle Jack instructed us in how to use our air rifles. Atticus wasn't

interested in guns. He told me that he rather have me shoot tin cans in the backyards

and he knows I'm going to shoot at birds and he said that i can shoot all the blue

jays i wanted as long as I can hit them, he also told me that it is a sin to kill a

mockingbird. Then Miss Maudie came along and said that my father was right and that

Mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us. They don't eat people's

gardens, don't nest in corn cribs, All they do is sing their little hearts out for

us. Miss Maudie told us that Atticus was the best checker player in the town.

She said that he can beat anybody on both sides of the river. She also said that he can play the Jew's harp. One Saturday Scout and I went exploring with our air rifles, to see if we can find a squirrel or rabbit. I started to look at something down the road. And Scout asked me what I was looking at and I said a dog yonder, and she said that it was old Tim Johnson. I went to get Cal to look at the dog and she told us to get inside, once inside she called me inside and she asked if I was telling a lie and I said no, She picked up the telephone and said to get Mr. Finch she told then that was old Tim Johnson down the street. Cal shouted down the street that a mad dog's coming. Then Heck and Atticus came in Heck's car. Heck was going to shoot but he didn't, he gave Atticus the gun and said you know I can't shoot. Then he walked in the middle of the street and took of his glasses and shot the dog. Heck said that he would have Zeebo come and get the dog later. One day Scout and I were coming back from town and I just wanted to take that baton that Scout had and hurt Ms. Dubose for calling Atticus all those names. So I took the baton and destroyed her flowers. While I was doing that Scout was screaming and then I came and I grabbed her hair and slapped her across the face and she fell and then I kicked her in the stomach. I waited for my punishment for my actions and then Atticus called me and I walked over to him and he told me to go over to Ms. Dubose's house and see what she wanted and she told me that she wants to read to her for a month so I read to her for a month and one day Atticus came in and said that they were late. We figured out that Ms. Dubose had set the clock back a couple of minutes each day. She died in a couple of weeks. Atticus told us she was a morphine addict and her fits were her drugs.