1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

we're reading this book in class, thought the book was good (unlike so many other ppl in my poor english class!:() not much, but i thought this story was good. thank you mrs. morris for all the hard work you did drilling this message through our heads!

jem's thoughts on the tom robinson trial's sentence

life was never fair

it isn't fair!

he was innocent i tell ya, innocent! but what does that matter in this town, huh?

nothing apparently!

a white man's story is always taken over a black's, even if it's clear they're lying. it's the way this town is, the way society

anded people. it's cruel, unfair, inhuman. i can't see why people do this sort of thing. color shouldn't even matter- it's what god created, isn't it?

that's what happened today; they sent someone to prison for something they didn't do, that's what they did! the stupid jury, they let the guilty one off scott-free!

i feel sick to my stomach. tom'll get the chair for this. atticus already said rape's a capital crime here in this state. it shouldn't be, i think. maybe that's just the anger talking.

scout and dill aren't fairing too well either. neither of them's said a word all the way home. even atticus is saddened, keeps on muttering nonsense to himself about appeals before death row and the grand jury might throw the case out as it was judged by byist citizens.