Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird [Journal told from Scout's perspective]

Dear Journal,

It is my first day of school, and I really have been looking forward to this day. However, before the first morning was over, Miss Caroline slapped my palm with a ruler, and made me stand in the corner of the room all morning. How could she? What did I even do wrong..? After that, she made me read out My First Reader. She asked me to tell Atticus that he should stop teaching me literacy, but Atticus didn't even have time to teach me! Jem said its just her new way of teaching. Well, I better get back to class. School is getting so miserable.

Metaphors of Life

Sorry Ms. Hancock.
You were the light of the grade 7 class,
But I didn't know high school was your last.
Sorry I didn't try to save you,
I know teenagers can be really hurtful.
You told me,
how marvelous metaphors are.
I would write everywhere,
anywhere,
whenever.
Why would you just waste your life and knowledge,
because you were getting shunned..?
Sorry I had peer pressure,
I couldn't help you out in class.
You collapsed my dreams of literature and metaphors.
You can't mend by broken heart.

Cries of the Hollyhocks

Oh Bill, the hollyhocks cry for you.
Everyday, the hollyhocks talk about you.
How guily I am for your death,
How the hollyhocks miss your voice.
Sorry, for not realizing your troubles,
Or the life problems that you face.
I know you are really miserable,
For the thoughts of your mom that were terrible.
Please let me save you in the afterlife,
As I failed to save you in your present life.
Sorry for your wife and dreams,
The hollyhocks miss you.