Post # 5 Perspective – Atticus

I felt as if having Aunt Alexander come live with us would be a great help, but instead it made things a lot different with Scout, Jem and I. Things weren’t going to well when Aunt Alexander arrived; I could tell Jem and Scout weren’t to happy to see her. Aunt Alexander wasn’t afraid to say what she felt like saying, even though most of it shouldn’t have been said at all. Aunt Alexander is the type of person who is straight forward about things and honestly don’t care from what Scout and Jem say about her.

I personally think that in a way she is a help but she could improve the way she acts around Jem and Scout. I can see that the main reason for Scout and Jem’s hatred over Aunt Alexandra was all because she wanted them both to change. Aunt Alexandra wanted Scout to become more feminine and to stop acting like a tomboy, she also wanted both of them to stop acting to rude and start acting a lot more proper. The other night at dinner, no would looked like they had anything to say to each other, they all just sat there silently. When we all finished eating dinner I sat down and started to read, but Scout unexpectedly came up to me and looked like he had something he’s been meaning to say to me.

“Yes I asked” As Scout stands there right in front of me. He opens he mouth as if he still wasn’t sure what he needed to tell me or in that case, ask me. Finally he asks

“What’s rape?” I look at him mean while I try to think of a way to answer question I had not expected to be asked; especially coming from Scout. Before I answered I asked

“Why did you think of asking me this now?” He looked at me with nothing really to say back. Shortly after I had that talk with Scout; Jem asked me if they could talk in his room. When I stepped into the room I saw Dill. Instead of questioning why he was in my house I remained cool and stood there until someone said something about what they need to talk to me about. Right after I finished talking to Jem and Scout, I called Dill’s mom and explained everything to her. I did that to let her know things were fine. Overall I’ve had quite a long week trying to explain to Scout and Jem to deal with Aunt Alexandra and all that she says about what I’m doing; defending a black man and not let it get to them at anytime.