ndrea Cui
Mrs. Briggs
Eng- 03
2016. 12. 13 Journal Entry
Date: November twenty weather: sunny
Dear diary, today was the worst and most “terrifying” day that I had ever had in my whole life. I still cannot understand what was going on. My body is still trembling, my hands and legs begin to numb. It is like a terrible nightmare, yet I don’t even know how to express my feelings. I know a nineteen year old girl who was called Mayella. She only spent two or three years at school, and she lost her mother when she was little. Her father, who was Mr. Ewell was a drunk, and she didn’t even have any friends at all. Sometimes, I feel sorrowful for her; she might be the …show more content…
Ewell saw the whole event in the house. I accused by the Ewells for letting me bust up the chifforobe for her then beating her around her head. Mr. Ewell said she was pretty bruised up, especially her right eye and her arms. There were also finger marks all around her neck by using my left hand. Moreover, they told Judge Taylor that I raped Mayella when I finish torturing her. They brazenly slandered me, even Mayella pointed at me telling everyone in the courthouse that I was the person who took advantage of her. My heart was broken down into pieces at that time, I felt painful more than anyone. But I could not even speak up, I didn’t have any authority to force everyone in the courthouse that I was innocent because of my identity. I didn’t know how to express my feelings that mixed with misery and indignancy. I look at my left hand, tore by the cotton gin, losing all the muscles from my bone. I am a crippled, It was nonsense that I beat Mayella with my left hand!
Then I stared at Mayella, her face was full of morose and guilty. Even though she brazenly slandered me, I still believe that she had her own difficulties. I assume that she might compelled by someone to tell the untruth. She was like a miserable, whining mockingbird, birds which never mess up people’s gardens, only sang songs for people. Nevertheless, people still use their guns to shoot them even they were innocent. Mayella, a lovely girl, because