Journal # 3: Chapters 8 - 9 Perspective: Uncle Jack

Hi my name is Jack, Scout’s uncle to be exact. Today I couldn’t stand what words Scout had coming out of his mouth. I kept asking myself how Atticus didn’t do anything about it. I can’t even begin to say what Scout that was okay to be saying. I couldn’t picture any kid that age cursing like that. She’s a great kid but I mean that language has to stop. I don’t want that to trouble Scout later in life; and I wanted to talk to her father Atticus about it but then decided not to and just leave thing alone. Anyways besides Scouts bad habits; it started to snow in Maycomb!


This was bigger than big! There hasn’t been snow since like the eighteen hundreds. I thought everything was going great I mean having everyone around and also having it snow it was amazing. I thought everything was going great but of course things didn’t stay that way for long; Scout and Francis got into an agreement which then turned into a fight that I had to go stop. I went to go see what happened and all of a sudden Francis starts complaining about what Scout had called him.


I ask him what Scout had said to him, Francis said
“Scout called me a whore-lady”
“What?!” I ask


Scout didn’t say anything and stood silent I didn’t know what to say I was just so mad, I mean first the cursing in front of me now going around calling people some whore-lady? I didn’t know what punishment to give this girl in order for her to understand that cursing is absolutely not okay. Scout and Francis and I all sat down and discussed this situation. I knew that Scout sometimes does have the reason to curse weather it is because he’s mad or offended. I’m not some who would get mad if someone said stupid or shut up and I probably would have said the same thing back if someone called me a “Nigger Lover.” This was quite a day, hopefully everything will settle down.