LOG #4

                         At the beginning of page 153 to 207, it says, JEM WAS TWELVE, in the capital letter. It is interesting to tell that Jem was in teenage so he became to be independent and he would be more like an adult. So his sister had no choice to accept the condition that he wouldn't play with her or talked with her like before anymore. And then there was an interesting story between the neighbor and the kids. The neighbor was a mean and ill woman who scolded the people passing by her house. However, one day, Jem was mad at her for saying bad words toward his father so he said something rude and destroyed the flowers in her garden. After that, his father asked him to apologize to the neighbor and helped the woman in her house for a month as a punishment. At first, the woman asked Jem to read a book for her for thirty minutes but Jem refused to come into her house. The description of the ill elderly's face is vivid and it was worse because of the disease. Each time he read the book, she often fell asleep and woke up when the alarm struck. As time went by, the condition is getting better because the kids were getting used to the worse condition in her house even though the women passed away in the end.
                           There is one more little story. Two kids once went to the church for black people with their nanny. It was totally different from the one for white people. At first, one of the black participants felt angry about the nanny carrying white kids into the church for black people, but she was scolded by other black people for not friendly welcome others. And then the kids find out that there was no books to read to sing the songs for God, instead, there was a men guiding all the participants to sing. In the contrast, people in the church for white people, each of them would get a book and sing the sings together. Afterwards, the kids get along well with other black people and they find them really friendly. It was rare to see such a harmony between black and white people especially in that period of time.
                            I feel cheerful but depressed. On the one hand, since the kids were grown up in an open-minded family and their father educated them well, so they didn't see black people in the cover of colored eyes. In the other hand, they had to go through the disagreement toward other people in the town. I really can't understand the mindset why people consider certain kinds of people don't have the rights to be themselves. Everyone is equal in the worldwide and every one should respect others who are different from them. I think this book wants to convey the thinking of caring about the things happened in the surroundings. How about you? Do you agree with the policy to protect black people is reasonable? People shouldn't be afraid of standing up and speaking up.