To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal

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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 35. This book is about three kids who live in Maycomb, Alabama. They love to hang out everyday and play games. In the neighborhood, there is a house that everybody is afraid of, the Radley’s house. In this journal I will be predicting that the kids will never meet Boo Radley. The first reason that he will not meet Boo Radley is that he is locked up. One day while he was cutting up news paper, he stabbed his dad with a scissors in the leg. He was going to be sent to jail but the sheriff decided not to because he felt bad putting him with many colored people. He is currently locked up in the courthouse basement. The legend says that he died in the basement and they stuffed him

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