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English Project: To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 6
Dear Diary, Today was not very pleasant. Me, Scout and Dill sneaked out to Boo Radleys tonight to annoy him again. We did not see him, but we did see something in the window when we looked inside. A shadow of a man. We ran like hell after seeing the mysterious figure, and a shotgun could be heard coming after us! We jumped over the fence, but my pants got caught in the barbed wire on the way out, so I ran off without them. We got home to find Atticus and the neighbours looking at us in disgrace. Dill stupidly tried to cover it all up by telling Atticus that we were playing strip poker and he won my trousers, but he got mad so I said we were playing with matches. I sneaked out later again and recovered my pants from Boo Radleys place, only to find them neatly folded and wrapped up on the fence! Who would do such a thing?

We now move on to Chapter 11, and see Jem in trouble with a very horrible

woman, seemingly....

Dear Diary, Today was so mad. Scout and I were walking home from school today and we saw old cantankerous Mrs
Dubose standing outside her house.
Atticus is always saying to be nice to her, but today she just went too far. She said
Atticus is no better than the niggers he works for. I went extremely mad and knocked down all her camellia bushes.
Atticus saw me and is making me go to her house every day for the month and read for her! This is extremely unfair.

TO KILL A
MOCKINGBIRD

Harper Lee
English Project 2011

Part Two Chapter 12

By this time, Jem has reached the age of twelve, and he begins to demand that Scout “stop pestering him” and act more like a girl.
Dear Diary, Scout is becoming so annoying these days. The only pity I have for her is that she has become very upset because she was looking forward desperately to
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