Personal Narrative: My Problem With Dill

Threads to Which I belong is a book that captivated my soul. As I read through the pages of history, I found myself traveling back in time. Invisible I stood in Mississippi watching a family’s history unfold. As I turned the pages, my emotions changed constantly. I experienced emotions of anger, disgust, sorrow, and happiness. The author has written an outstanding piece of work that forces you to consider researching your own family history.

In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, A complex character named Dill comes into the story. A complex character being someone who appears in more than one conflict and gains many different traits throughout the story. Dill is creative, neglected, and more understanding as the book goes on therefore, making him a complex character.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the author, Harper Lee portrays Dill as a spoiled little kid with lots of curiosity.When Dill first meet Scout and Jem he said “I’m Charles Baker Harris[…]I can read”(8). The author uses the way Dill speaks to portray his self centered perspective. He believe that he is better than others because he can read. He would even brag to a stranger that he just meet to feel superior to others. When Scout shrugged him off with ‘So what?’(8), he answered back with, ‘I just thought you’d like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin’ I can do it…’ (8). Dill clearly thinks that only him in the group can read. He believes that other people would praise him for the fact that he can read, but that was not the

We all make bad decisions, and we all are not perfect. Dill is just like any of us and is not perfect. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, the character of Dill relies heavily on instinct when making decisions. However, not all of these decisions are bad. Dill’s decisions are often not thought through, his decisions are often ran by his curiosity, and sometimes Dill makes good decisions.

Dill’s motivation for lying about his father is so he can have a better life. He can also get more attention from the adults, allowing him to stay in Maycomb. Since he is neglected, he lies saying that his father abuses him so he can spend more time with Scout and Jem. Dill adds imagination, color and adventure into the children’s lives. An example of imagination is when Dill makes up the “Boo Radley Game” daring Jem to touch the supposedly haunted house that has been abandoned for a long time.

“Wake up,” whispered Jem as he shook out of my slumber. Jem explained that he wanted to inspect the Ewell’s house to find out if he could find any evidence and that I could accompany him. I told him that it would be dangerous and that the two of us would be shot to pieces, he mentioned that he didn’t need me, and that he would sneak out with Dill, because Dill would be coming, because Bob Ewell would be drunk and he wouldn’t be able to observe us and because I dreaded the thought Dill presuming that I might be a coward, I decided to tag along with them.

I have been challenged by all of my professors to continuously go deeper with my work. However, this week something different came about because when a visiting artist and curator visited. The curator said “A lot of my students are good at showing things one way but not multiple ways.” This affirmation settle in my spirit because currently I am working to find different ways to express loneliness and examine it from the many angles and avenues it has to offer.

*disclaimer: bare with me... the next 5 chapters are crap because i wrote them over a year ago...chapter 19 will be the start of some great shit*

"I wish I was an ass, so that I could piss standing up!" gasped my chemistry teacher in his loud Spanish accent. Striking us with hilarious surprise, these risibly condign words seemed to capture the moment perfectly. For dire struggling, I have found, tends to bring out in everyone a sense of profundity (and profanity), flippant or refined nonetheless.

The story takes place in a small town called Nuketown Nevada. When to friends played hero and villain in each others back yard they would pretend that they had stole something. Years passed and they had to go to school. They would play sports together but Dill wasn't good to run or catch so he gave up. But Tom told him not to but he did anyways and when to play video games on a console he bought. He would play it all day and all night until he didnt come out of his house. It wasn't long that Tom thought something was wrong with Dill so he went the next day. He found Dill wake and play video games non stop playing Tom told Dill that if he want to play outside but he denied. So Tom would not rest until he got Dill out of him house so they. So

The life lessons in To Kill a Mockingbird molded into who they are, by giving them tragic, and emotional moments to impact their future and further actions. The lessons that they learn in the book are key points to understand how they will act and behave in the future. The emotional side of the lessons also impacts them in ways that they didn’t think were possible. Since the characters are younger, the lessons have more of an impact on them; rather than an adult, where the events can be seen as a shadow, not a light.

When there is a person who has the power to either save the world or destroy it, they tend to be rather influential and fascinating. For this creative journal, I chose to represent Josh. Josh is a noteworthy character. He has an ongoing internal battle deciding whether he wants to side with Flamel or Dee. Both Flamel and Dee are mysterious in Josh’s eyes. The reader is swayed believe that Flamel is the righteous figure and Dee is the devious figure thus far, but there is no concrete certainty. Josh also deeply envies his sister’s powers after she was awoken.

My CNTRL-Z happened 4 weeks ago. It was when I broke my leg. I was at my moms friends house babysitting at the time. I was just leaving the house I slipped down 2 stairs. Than, me, my mom, and Austin went to the hospital. The people working at the hospital took my x-ray. And told me that my leg was broken. Although, when I was at the hospital, the doctor wasn’t there at the time. He was around the area still so he came back to help me. I thought it was pretty awesome, that he would come back for me.

We had a very eventful summer that we all enjoyed very much but now there were only a couple of days left and Dill and I wanted to do something exciting. Today is Dill’s last day in Maycomb so we decided to do something daring. We planned on sneaking over to the Radley place and peaking in the loose shutter to see if we could see anything inside. Scout found out what we were doing and wanted to tag along with us so we let her. We started walking over when it got dark at so nobody would see us. We snuck around the back of the house and made our way to the loose shutter. In the middle of peering her we heard a shotgun go off behind us. We immediately sprinted back to the fence where we came in. When I was going through the hole my pants got

Many children run away from home for the same reason as Dill. Dill was neglected by both his parents everyday. He originally explained to Jem and Scout how he was chained up in the basement by his father but escaped from the chains, took thirteen dollars from his moms purse and ran away to Maycomb (158-159). Jem and Scout could easily tell that Dill was lying because thirteen dollars was an absurd amount of money in that day and they could be able to tell he was lying due to the fact that Dill just likes to make things up. Scout found out the real reason why Dill ran away when he confessed to her one night. “They just wasn't interested in me.” (161). Dill later said that “they stayed gone all the time, and when they were home, even, they'd get off in a room by themselves.” (161). Dill loves being in Maycomb with Jem and Scout anyways. He loves the games they play and the times they have there, so I'm sure that sort of urged him to go see them also (163). Dill doesn't run away because his parents don't want him around them.