TKAM post #5

perspective of Aunt Alexandra

I am here in Moycomb, Alabama staying here with Atticus and the kids. Atticus told the kids that I am here to watch them over the summer since he wont be here most of the days. But I am really here to teach Scout and Jem how to become proper ladies and gentlemen. The kids really haven't been getting a long very well. They have been pestering, but I just think that Jem is growing up, which is exactly why I'm here. I know that they are proper somewhere on the inside, but I just need to extract it from them. I know that Scout doesn't really like how I want her to become a lady, but I know that the ladies in town would love to have a tea party with me. I invite some of the ladies form Maycomb over, and we have tea. Scout came in from outside to get some water for her and Jem. I tell her to come meet her cousin Lily Brooke. Scout came over, and she is filthy with mud, and I regret having her come meet Miss Lily Brooke.

I am very proud of being a Finch. There are some things that I think are giving the Finch name a bad reputation; Atticus defending a black person, Scout not being lady, and just many other little things, that I don't think are perfect that need to be. One day Scout tried to ask Atticus what rape was, and why Calpurnia didn't tell her. Scout also asked Atticus if her and Jem could go to Calpurnia's house, because she said they could, Atticus was about to answer with a yes, and I just couldn't help myself, and yelled out "NO." Why would she think that she could go to a Negros house. We have enough disgrace with the Finches and Negros, we don't need anymore. Anyways, I don't think that Calpurnia needs to work here anymore, since I will be staying here for a long time. I want her fired.

Ms. Rachel's nephew, Dill ran away from his house, because he thought that his new step dad, and mom don't pay enough attention to him, so he took 13$ from his mom's purse with her being oblivious. And in the middle of the night, Dill ran away. He walked, rode a train, and rode on the back of a cotton car all the way to Maycomb. Dill was dispelled with his parents. So one night, Scout thought she saw something under her bed, and she thought it was a snake, but it was Dill! he was asleep under her bed, and probably got in the house when no one was looking, or no one was home. Dill was filthy, and hungry, and not in and amiably way. Atticus told Scout to go get him some food, and I went to go tell Miss Rachel that Dill is here.

A week after Dill gets here, A group of men knock on the door. They were here to tell Atticus that his defendant, Tom Robinson is getting moved to the Maycomb County Jail. Atticus and I had been arguing about the trial, because I don't think that he should be defending Tom Robinson. A few nights later, Atticus takes the car into town, and doesn't tell me where he was going. But I have been taking charge in this house hold, and have been making a lot of rules, and I don't think that the kids really like them. And Atticus either.