With all of the crazy events that has occurred for the past three years, Atticus has suggested that I record everything that has happened in a memory box. I like the idea, and I immediately rush to my bedroom. In my bedroom, I write down a lengthy list of important items to place in my box of memories. As I am about to finish my list of items to place in my box, Atticus enters my room and advises me to limit the amount of items of my memories to a minimal number. I agree and choose the four most important items that have impacted me in the past few years. The first item I choose to put in my memory box is a kitchen knife. It is hard to steal it from the kitchen with Calpurnia giving me dirty looks, but Atticus quickly explains its use. I choose the kitchen knife because it is the weapon that Boo Radley used to kill Bob Ewell, a man that tried to kill me and my brother. At first, I thought of Boo Radley as a dangerous monster through the stories that I heard. During …show more content…
Atticus decides to help me get this item and gives me five cents to buy a bottle at the O.K. Café. On my way there, I realize why I chose this item. I chose the bottle of Coca-Cola because of one of the townspeople, Dolphus Raymond. He is a white man who married a black woman, a practice that is seen as unacceptable in our community. Therefore, he pretends to be drunk by putting Coca-Cola in a brown bag to give other whites an excuse for his odd preference of being associated with black people. This shows how our community is unwilling to accept those who are different and that they automatically see unique attitudes and people as dangerous or even evil. Like our community, I judged Dolphus Raymond and assumed that he was dangerous, but after a quick conversation with him, I learned a few things about him, such as how he only pretends to be a drunkard. In honor of Dolphus Raymond, the third item I choose to be in my memory box is a Coca-Cola