A land more kind than home

         This week I read chapters 8 - 11 in "A Land More Kind Than Home." In these chapters the narrator is Jess. The chapters start with her and her grandfather leaving Mrs. Lyle's house because Jess shouldn't be there with Stump's dead body, so the Grandfather takes her home. Then Jess start to think about what her life would be like without Stump, and all her memories flushed out of her.   She was thinking about how Stump's favorite thing to do was catch fireflies. 

         Then the grandfather told Jess to go get ready for bed. When Jess goes into her room she remembers about Stump's private things which are in a shoebox on a shelf. When she opens the shoebox, she sees something that she made for him. It was an ornament for a Christmas tree which resembled a firefly. Jess gave this to him for a present before he died. Then when Jess was trying to go to sleep she heard the door close and saw her grandfather in the tobacco fields cutting down tobacco. Then she falls asleep and that's for the chapter ends.

The Squirrel In The Attic

We could hear it above where were standing a squirrel in the attic. He was screeching like he was talking to someone. We wanted to get it out but we didn't want to kill it. We crept up the stairs trying not to spook it. when we opened the door it ran out into the room. We took precautions to shut all the doors in the room so it couldn't escape. It ran into a corner and looked at us with bewildered eyes like were giants about to kill him. So we felt bad and instead of trying to catch him we maneuvered him outside. As soon as he reached the door he jumped on a tree and ran up to its nest and to our amazement, He found  nut and started to eat it.

A Land More Kind Than Home

         This week I read chapters 5-7 and right now in the book the perspective starts with the Sheriff talking about the background story of Pastor Chambliss how he was a person who was a man who got caught with petty theft and possession of drugs earlier in his life. And how when he was in a meth lab the meth lab caught fire and burned him yet to get skin grafts on three fourths of his body and almost died. That is how he got those burns. He was also charged with manslaughter because there was a girl inside the meth lab with him.

           In the next chapters the perspective goes from the sheriff to Jess and just talks about how after stump dies from a snakebite they think that Pastor Chambliss did it. And one day a group from the church comes over with stumps body and apologize for what they did to him. Sheriff comes over when been Jess's dad is beating all three of the main members of the church for killing his son and the sheriff is worried that Ben may do something more drastic like kill Pastor Chambliss which the sheriff doesn't want him to do because he likes Ben.