To Kill a Mockingbird

            When I interrogated Atticus about his visit to the Radley place and old Mrs. Radley’s death, he said he didn’t see Boo. I also asked him what caused Mrs. Radley’s death—hoping it had to do anything with Boo—but Atticus said it was a natural cause death.

When I woke up the next day, I was left in total anarchy; I thought the world was endin’. Through my window I could see the bizarre white powder that was covering everything in sight. I later apprehended—thanks to Atticus—that it was snowing, so Jem and I decided to go play outside. We conspired in making a snowman but we since didn’t have enough snow Jem decided to make a dirt-man and cover it up in snow. Time elapsed as we made our snowman, and bit by bit it started looking more and more like Mr. Avery; Jem included a large piece of wood to portrait the image of old Mr. Avery that other night.

            Later that day Atticus came home, he was very impressed with Jem’s work; in fact, he was sort of lionizing him. But as Atticus examined the snow man meticulously, he realized who it looked like and told Jem we were better off not making caricatures of the neighbors. Of course Jem had a dissension with him, and pointed out it wasn´t a caricature of Mr. Avery, for it looked exactly like him. Still, Jem ran to Miss Maudie’s house and retrieved her large sunhat and put it on the snowman. As soon as she found out, I thought it was going to be imminent that Jem would have to give her back the hat but Atticus went over and engaged in conversation with her and the snowman topic was set aside.

            Early in the morning I was awakened by Atticus, only to watch a calamitous scene: Miss Maudie´s house was on fire! Jem and I ran over to the Radley gate as we watched Atticus assimilate into the crowd of men who were taking out the furniture out of the house. Mr. Avery got stuck when he tried to jump out the window, and I was afraid he would swelter in the uncontrollable flames. Luckily he was able to get out safely, and Miss Maudie will be staying with Miss Crawford so at least no one was harmed.