Journal #3 Chapters 8-9 Atticus

Well it was very nice, many things happened that was very interesting. I felt good about what happened. The Christmas party was very fun, but I was kind of disappointed when I found out that Scout fought her cousin Francis. I just hoped that it was for her own reasons and for something like he was making fun of me or something like that because I had ask Scout to not fight because she was protecting me. I just want her to handle it in a different way. I don’t want her to fight at all, but I still believe that if you have to fight, make it for your own reason and not because you’re protecting someone from being called names. Because sooner or later they are going to get bored of it and stop because it stops getting peoples’ attention and makes it so that they will use a different way to get attention. Although I love having a daughter that respects me and that doesn’t like it when people call me names, but I don’t want her to become a girl that protects everyone just by fighting, I want her to learn from her mistakes and learn how to stop it in different ways. I don’t want her fighting to stop problems because if she does it for the rest of her life, people will just isolate her from them and just not like her, and I don’t want that to happen to my daughter. But I know that if she learns from this, she will grow up smart and strong. The thing about her is that she is patient and can control herself very well, I was proud of her for not fight for three weeks, but then when it came to that last fight with Francis, I bet she has cooled down and won’t get into anymore fights. I have entrusted her with the responsibility of controlling herself and trying not to get into fights that has to involve me in it. I don’t like it and I know she tries very hard to listen and follow one of the rare things I ask her to do and I know she respects my decision, but I think it will be quite difficult and moderate for her to do. I’m sure that she wasn’t ingenuous to the fight, but I think and know that she did what I asked her about not fighting about me. I think that she is going to grow up smart and know what I’m talking about in the conversation with Uncle Jack. I wanted her to hear everything because I knew that the perplexity of her mind will decrease and that she will understand that I wanted her to hear those things and to understand it as well as she can at that moment because I know that she will grow up learning from it. I know that she will be adjacent to Jem for a while and that when they separate from each other, I don’t want it to become a bad separation and I want them to learn from each other and from me. I will be debating for Tom and that it will be hard to convince them that he is innocent, I think it might be impossible, but I know that you should always try to win even if you can’t