To Kill A Mocking Bird Journal #5 Chapters 12-14

Journal #5
Chapters 12, 13, & 14
Perspective: Atticus

These few days have been a bit crazier than I expected. I expected it to be hectic, but not this much. At first it wasn’t chaotic. It was Sunday, and I had to go to work. Unfortunately I couldn’t bring my kids to church, so I let them go to church by their selves. Then I lerned later in the day that they went First Purchase African M.E. Church, Cal’s church. It appears they like Reverend Sykes. But I am really glad they went there. As much as it wasn’t expected, they were able to see how the black folk live. Hopefully they would understand what I am doing more by them seeing what was there. I also heard the offertory money was for the sake of Tom Robinson’s wife Helen. It appears he used quite a method to extract ten dollars out of the church congregation. I’m glad they did acquire the ten dollars for Helen. She might really need it soon.

Then things got really hard to cope with when Alexandra came. I agreed with her that it would be good if she stayed with the children for a bit. We decided that they needed a bit of “feminine” influence in the house. Then one night Scout found Dill under her bed, and he emerged telling his story. Apparently his father wasn’t exactly what he expected. He felt like no one cared about him so he ran away. So we reported him to Miss Rachel and everything went to normal, or so I thought.

A few days later, Heck and a few others came over and we were talking about Tom Robinson. We decided to take precautions around the antagonized folks. Heck said it was infallible that some folk would try to get Tom while he was in the Maycomb Jail. So we set up near the jail, and prepared for any danger. To our surprise, the Cunninghams and a few others showed up at night. I knew Mr. Underwood was in his office with his gun, but I wasn’t so sure I’d be safe. Another surprise came though. It wasn’t any group of men, instead it was a group of children! Scout, Jem, and Dill came to see what I was up to. To my surprise they helped me get out of the predicament. I learned there that innocence can prevail, as Scout tried to have a conversation with Mr. Cunningham, who eventually left because he listened, and couldn’t hurt her. I stopped trembling, and Tom asked if they were gone. I replied with a yes, and Mr. Underwood said he would watch over the jail when I while I went home with the kids. I just hope I could win that trial.