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Prespective: Atticus
Dear journal;

Chapter 10;
Today was a really harsh day! I got home with the sherif, Heck Tate. Calpurnia calls me and tells me there is a mad dog down the street. Then the sherif give me the rifle and tells me to shoot the animal. You see when I was younger I was a really good shooter they would call me "One shot Finch". I never told my kids and I really dont want them to know.

Chapter 11;
I am really worried, since my son and daughter have to pass trough Mrs. Dubose house. She is a very cranky person and I dont want her to tell my son or daughter anything mean, specially nothing about me "defending niggers" because I know how much that makes Scout mad. So I told Jem to be a gentleman to her and not to listen to anything she says.

Until one day Mrs. Dubose tell Jem and scout that im not any better than the “niggers and trash I works for”. Jem got furious and he destroys Mrs. Dubose camellia bushes with Atticus baton. I didnt think that was really fair for Mrs. Dubose since she is an old sick woman. So as a punishment I made Jem go and read to her. He had to read for her not just once but many other times. Everyday more and more. A month after Mrs. Dubose had died I told my son and daughter how she was addicted to morphine and reading was a way for her to stop the addiction.