Blog Extra Credit: Chapters 25-27: Perspective of Jem

Chapters 25-27
Perspective of Jem Finch

School is starting soon and I absolutely do not want to go through our old same routine again, school, play and study. One day Scout and I were playing and talking on the porch. I was talking about how much I hated school but I didn't think she was paying attention. All she was doing was looking at the ground. I stare at her and she starts to move her hand. She picks up a critter right in front of my face and almost smashed in between her fingers. It was unbearable to see her smash a harmless bug right in front of my face. I yelled at her before she tried to kill it and she jumped in shock. I waited until she looked at me and then started yelling at her. I said there was no reason that you should kill a harmless critter like that. The roley poley didn't do anything to you. Scout's faces was completely shocked and confused. She had no idea that was coming. She looked at me like I was a complete weirdo. I said to myself that there was nothing wrong with that. I am just becoming more mature and more of a gentlemen to keep my temper down. Meanwhile everyone hears the gossip that Tom Robinson escaped jail and got shot 17 times. I hated that case. Tom Robinson should have never been dead right now. He was a good negro and he didn't cause any harm. That case was inevitable to me.It were those two Ewell's that drived me insane. Those hypocrites.

One day there was a long article in the Maycomb newspaper about Tom Robinson's death. He talks about him being a good negro and all the good in him. As I was skimming the newspaper I noticed that he was trying to make the article readable an understandable for kids not just for adults. He really wanted everyone to notice and hear about Tom Robinson's death I thought. Soon summer was over and sadly Dill had to leave. It was fun teaching him how to swim and I hope when he comes back he will be better at it. Hopefully he will come back soon and not be stuck where he is now.

School has now started and as usual it was boring and unpleasant. It was so inconvenient. It ruins the whole day. Once your done with school you basically have to do school again. You have to study and do homework. It is such a pain. I was now in the 7th grade and school work become more work and it got much harder. This year I wanted to be a little more active and a little less bored. So I tried out for the football team. I tried out but they didn't accept me as a player but as the teams waterboy. Scout thought I was to young and to slender to join it. But I wanted to do something so I gave my consent to the coach and was now the waterboy for the football team. Finally school was over and I walk by the Radely House where I see the knot holes filled with cement in the Radely's yard. I remembered all the good times and cool things we found in that knot hole. We found soaps that looked like us, gum, money string and many other items. To bad we couldn't still be finding cool stuff in the knot hole everyday we walked home from school. As we get home Scout talks about her school day today. She said that she got a teacher named Miss. Gates who was her 3rd grade teacher. Scout said that she was talking about Hitler and what he was doing to torchure Jews. As she was talking I was thinking about my day and how I didn't make the football team. I was depressed and also embarrassed. I couldn't believe I didn't make it. I guess I wasn't good enough. Scout comes up to me and we start making a conversation but I didn't like what the conversation was about. It was about the Tom Robinson case. She knew that I hated talking about that so I yelled and got mad at her for talking about it. I always get mad. Tom Robinson should of one that case. He didn't do anything wrong. The only reason that he didn't win was because he was a black. He shouldn't of have been persecuted like that. I then tried calming my self down again and tried to think of something else.