Friday, September 24, 2010

My sweet Boo Radley.

Boo Radley is a sweet person that tends to stay away from the gossip that flutters around Maycomb. Children are fascinated with him but cannot seem to understand why he will not come and hangout with them. Scout, Dill, and Jem try as hard as they can to make Boo Radley come out and see the light of the sunshine, and/or snow and become a real citizen in the old town of Maycomb County. When I was little, I was scared of my brother. He would always make me cry with his deep voice and him towering over me, and almost the size of a small cottage, I would always run away. I knew he would never intentionally hurt me or make me upset on purpose, but I would hide from him for the fact of him chasing me down the hall way and tickling me until I was about to pee my pants at 4 or 5 years old. It was ALWAYS like that until the day he saved me. We had a pool at my grandparents. A dirty pool filled with slime, tadpoles, leaves and probably leaches. Had not been cleaned for a few month since it was winter time and we didnt expect anyone to go swimming with frost on the ground. Towards the middle of winter, there was a rather hot, sunny 'summer' day and we were outside enjoying the day as a family.
My older sisters, (between the ages of 12 and 14) had a tree house that sat up above in the trees and that had a slide into the pool. Well on this day the walk up to the tree house felt crowded. The boards were slippery still from the morning mist and I saw the pool as especially dingy. I was walking behind the group of 3 or 4 teenagers including my brother, and thats when everything started going really fast until I was super cold. I had fallen into the water of the nasty, infested pool and I was drowning. I was looking up through the water, and seeing everyones faces as they turn around and Im gone. I could hear the sound of screams and talking. As I am watching my brother ripping off his shirt and diving into the water after me. And then the moment I knew it, I was being held in a towel in my brothers arms. Thats where we became glued by the hip. And I never wanted him to leave again.
My brother always freightened me all the time. Boo Radley was given a bad name with all the rumors the children heared, but they were still fascinated and now even more because they wanted to see if they were true. I didnt have a good relationship with my brother until the day he saved me and the same for Scout and Jem. That is when we really had formaly been introduced to the person we have been trying to find all along.

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