To kill a mocking bird 4

Journal #4
Chapters 10-12
Perspective Scout

Sometimes i feel that Atticus is the only dad in Maycomb that does nothing. They had a football game at the church. After Jem and I see a dog, it was Tim Johnson, and he looked like a mad dog. He told Cal and she called Atticus and started knocking on doors and yelling. Atticus came withe Heck Tate the county sheriff, he gave and Atticus a rifle, and told him to shoot the dog. He hesitated with Jem and I watching. Cal put us inside and blocked our view, but we saw the shot. It was amazing he got the dog at a fair distance. We stayed with Miss Maudie a while after that. She told us as a young man Atticus was the best shot in the county, and that he didn't want us to know. One day while Jem and I were walking by the street an old lady started yelling at us from across the street, she was Ms. Dubose. When Jem tells Atticus, he warns Jem to be a nice to her, because she is old and sick, but one day she tells the children that Atticus isn't any better than the the nigger-trash he works for, and Jem goes nuts. After we came back from the toy store Jem grabbed my baton that he just bought me, and starts whipping out her camellia bushes as if it were a machete. When Atticus returns home from work he was holding some of the camellia bush, as punishment he had to go to her house and read to her every day for a month. I went with him and every day we went it seemed a little longer then the day before. Mrs. Dubose dies a couple of days after there sessions end. Atticus revels that she was addicted to a medication pill and reading helped her try to overcome it. Atticus gives Jem a box that Mrs. Dubose had given her maid for Jem; in it lies a single white camellia. Atticus said that this meant that every thing was okay. Jem has now reached age 12 and starts to tell me to act like a girl. The only thing i start to look forward to is Dill's arrival, but sadly he sends a letter saying he has a new father and he will not be coming. If that wasn't disappointing enough Atticus has to go on some trip for two weeks. Calpurnia decides to take the us to her church, a black church, that Sunday. Maycomb’s black church is an old building, called First Purchase because it was bought with the first earnings of the first freed slaves. When we arrive a woman starts cursing out Cal and she starts to. Everyone except her seemed really nice, and Reverend Sykes welcomes us, saying that everyone knows our father. They sang by echoing the words that Zeebo, Calpurnia’s eldest son and the town garbage collector, reads from their only hymnal. Reverend Sykes also collects money for Tom Robinson's wife, who cannot find work because her husband is being accused of rape. Reverend Sykes announces that they didn't have enough money, a signals someone to lock the door. He says that everyone has to give another dime, and they do reach the goal. After that I asked Cal what rape was and she told me to ask Atticus. When we got home we saw Aunt Alexandra and now I have a thought that the day isn't going to end well.