>>Pretend you are Boo Radley (from To Kill a Mocking Bird). Write your secret diary entry about how you have been punished and kept in a virtual prison for fifteen years.
It has been so very long since my father first locked me up in this house. I mean, I was only a teenager having fun, I did not do anything serious or anything. At first, after a couple of days punishment, it thought I would be finally set free by father. After a couple of weeks, I realised that it seemed I would never be let out. I was correct- as the weeks turned into months, I understood how cruel my father was and that my punishment would last forever.
After a year or two, my father died. I was free to go outside into the world- well I could have escaped from imprisonment if I really wanted to, but I did not wish to.
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Nathan Perkins grave at Old South Church
The Father of My ChildrenMy father left me emotionally damaged and ashamed of myself, and I did not and I do not want to show myself in the real world after such a long period of time. Once Nathan arrived, things were just the same as how they used to be with my father.
Being locked up in this stuffy house allows me a lot of time to myself. I get to read the local papers- one of the only 'luxuries' I am allowed to have and reflect on a lot of things and ponder over them all day long. I think about how people are getting along in Maycomb as I see them walk quite briskly in front of our house and I think about my father and what he did to me. I am usually in a fairly good mood all day long, but when...
Diary of Boo Radley
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is definitely one of my favourite American novels. This is quite an interesting approach you took here to give some insight where the mystrious character Boo Radley is concerned. However, one thing struck me about all of this? Boo Radley was basically mute when Scout finally met him. Would he be able to write something like this? Just my two cents.
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