I find that anytime spent indoors is time wasted. I would prefer to spend my time outside in the yard tending to my azaleas, or sitting on my rocking chair on the front porch, or just about anywhere but cooped up inside my big old barn of a house. I see so much of Maycomb through spending most of my time outdoors. This little southern town is drowsy and tired, although there seems to be nothing to be tired from. There’s nowhere to go and no one to meet, everyone here already knows everyone.
I’ve lived here in Maycomb for most of my adult life. The only other town I’ve ever lived in was Finch’s Landing, also in Alabama, where I stayed until I met my late husband. I had grown up in the same neighborhood as three children who were only a couple …show more content…
He and his two children, Jem Finch and Scout Finch, live across the street from me. Their mother died years ago when they were young, but Atticus does just as good of job as a single parent. The children have known me all their lives. They’ve got a friend who stays with Miss Rachel in the summertime, Charles Baker Harris, who has only known me for a few years.
As Jem and Charles have grown a bit older, they’ve begun to play without Scout more often, so she’s been in my company more often lately. The three used to be inseparable, they would run around the neighborhood and in my yard, where I let them as long as they stay out of my azaleas. Scout asks me about the people in the neighborhood and how they came to be like how they are, and tells me about the wild suggestions that her brother and Charles make.
When it became fall and Charles Baker Harris was no longer there to play with Jem, the two siblings would go to school all day and spend the rest of their hours with one another. I would instead spend my time talking to the other women of the town, who were no longer busy with their children. This town may not be as busy as others, but I have never been lonely
I’ve lived here in Maycomb for most of my adult life. The only other town I’ve ever lived in was Finch’s Landing, also in Alabama, where I stayed until I met my late husband. I had grown up in the same neighborhood as three children who were only a couple …show more content…
He and his two children, Jem Finch and Scout Finch, live across the street from me. Their mother died years ago when they were young, but Atticus does just as good of job as a single parent. The children have known me all their lives. They’ve got a friend who stays with Miss Rachel in the summertime, Charles Baker Harris, who has only known me for a few years.
As Jem and Charles have grown a bit older, they’ve begun to play without Scout more often, so she’s been in my company more often lately. The three used to be inseparable, they would run around the neighborhood and in my yard, where I let them as long as they stay out of my azaleas. Scout asks me about the people in the neighborhood and how they came to be like how they are, and tells me about the wild suggestions that her brother and Charles make.
When it became fall and Charles Baker Harris was no longer there to play with Jem, the two siblings would go to school all day and spend the rest of their hours with one another. I would instead spend my time talking to the other women of the town, who were no longer busy with their children. This town may not be as busy as others, but I have never been lonely