TKAM Journal #1: Perspective of Dill

I just arrived in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama during summer. I was exhausted from coming all the way from Meridian, Mississippi by train. I came to Maycomb to spend the summer with my Aunt Rachel. The first day I arrived it was already night time so I went to sleep. The next morning I woke up early and went outside to see how the neighborhood was like. I was sitting on my Aunts porch when i heard something next door. I thought it was a small animal but it a boy and a girl just staring at me with intimidation. I got the courage to speak first, I introduced my self to them. Then the big kid spoke and asked my age. He though I as four and a half but I am really seven. The big kid introduces his sister and says that she can read and that she hasn't started school yet. I could already tell I got a bad first impression on them. I told him my whole name which is Charles Barker Harris and he said " Lord what a name". I told him that his name name isn't any better since it was Jeremy Atticus Finch. When i got to the other side of the fence they asked me where I came because they knew i wasn't indigenous to Maycomb. I told them I was from Mississippi and came to Maycomb during the summer at my Aunt Rachel's house. I wanted to impress them so I told them I won a Beautiful Child contest and got 5 dollars from it. With that money i went to see picture shows twenty times. Jeremy asked me if i had seen anything good and I told him I saw Dracula. Then it felt like we both had a mutual compromise of respect to one another. After I was done telling how the show Dracula was Jeremy's little sister asked me where my Father was. I really don't know he is just gone. I knew after the second day I was accepted by Jeremy and Scout.

Everyday of the summer i would go outside and play with them, since I saw a lot of picture shows I could act out a lot of character when we played Like being Tarzan or Merlin the wizard with eccentric plans. Then one day the old house on the hill caught my attention. I asked Jeremy and Scout what that's place was. They told me it was the Radley place, and there was a whole story of legends behind it. One legend was that there was a malevolent phantom in the house. The whole story started before Jeremy, Scout and I were born. Boo Radley the youngest son of the Radleys got in trouble for drinking a cursing in public and his father Aurthor Radley was so ashamed that he forced his son to stay in the house and never see sunlight again. Later when Boo was cutting things out with scissors his dad walked by and Boo stabbed him in the leg cleaned the scissors and went back to using them. Then after Author Radley died his oldest son Nathan Radley came to take his place. Jeremy sounded fearless when he was telling the story. I dare him to open the door of the Radley house and he first condecended to it. Then he was getting scared of the thought that Boo would come out and eat him in the end we agreed he only had to slap the house and when he got ready he ran as fast as he could to and from the Radley house. I didn't have many days left in Maycomb after that because I had to attend school back in Mississippi so i left in early September.