To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal Essay

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Trinity Philbrick Due Date: Tuesday 6th Journal 2 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I am on page 42. This book is about Scout and what is going on in her town. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating. I predict that the kids will meet Boo because they keep messing with his house, and one of these times one of the kids might get dared to go into the house, and that might possibly be when they all meet. Boo got locked up because of his trouble making as a kid. One day for no reason he was cutting newspaper and then stabbed his dad, wiped the blade, then started cutting the newspaper again like it was no big deal. The police wanted to lock him up in a psych ward but his dad, Mr. Radley, insisted his son stayed home and he just …show more content…

When he was a teenager him and his friends would drink, get in trouble, and more, but nobody had the nerve to tell Mr. Radley that his son was in with the wrong crowd, because he was not the socializing type either. He was in this gang with his friends that’s how they got away with a lot of crimes because everyone was scared of them. The whole family is pretty much on lockdown, no one ever sees them and if they did not like they would want to talk to that family anyways, because everyone was scared of them. The kids are scared of Boo because the house looks really mysterious; the doors are always shut, even on Sundays when everyone else’s doors and windows are open. They are also cared of the way he looks and all the stuff they suspect he does, like they think that he looks in other people’s windows at night but they do not know for sure. Also because of real life, the stuff they know for a fact is true, like for example the gang,