Journal #7

          Jem has been more and more annoying lately. We used to spend time together at school but now at twelve he told me to stop pestering him and to spend time with the people my age. I was very taken aback by this as we have always spent time together but I guess He just got tired of having his kid sister around. To make things worse, Dill wrote to say that he won’t be coming to Macomb this summer as he said he would be spending time with his new father and his family.

            Atticus had to travel to the state capital this week because of some type of new law or legislature or something, I’m not quite sure about these things. Calpurnia took us to her church which was very different from Maycomb’s town church but still very interesting. I learned that Bob Ewell had accused Tom Robinson and I didn’t know why anyone would listen to the Ewells. When Jem and I returned home, we discovered Dill hiding under the bed. He ran away from home because his parents weren’t paying enough attention to him. I would never run away from home but then again Dill is very adventurous. Naturally I was very happy that Dill came to Maycomb since we hadn’t seen him for a long time. We had to tell Atticus that Dill was at the house but Atticus was very reasonable and let Dill stay.