Journal #4 chapters 10-11 Perspective of Jem

Dear journal,
We were on our way to town to meet Atticus. And the only way to get there is going passed Ms. Dubose's house. She speaks nothing but trash about me and my family. Atticus tells me to walk like a gentlemen and just ignore it but each word slowly chips away at me. I am slowly getting ready to blow.
One day I got my money and was feeling generous and decied to buy scout a baton and myself a toy engine. On our way back she decide to tell scout that she was going to wait tables at a OK cafe and then she called Atticus nothing better than the trash and niggers he works for. That set me off. I ran to her camille bushes and ripped them to shreds until it was just the a pile of dirt and petals. Then I took scouts baton and broke it in half. I pulled her by her hair and pushed her to the ground. I felt a little guilty so I had picked her up. When we got back home I needed to cool off. But in the back of my head I knew Atticus was going to find out. When he found out he came to me and ordered me to go talk to her. When I went she had told me to come to her house and work on her flowers until they were able to grow again but I don't think it will happen. I also have to read to her every day for a month. Then as the days pass she had given her maid a box to give to Atticus to give to me and when I received it, in there was a white Camille. I was shocked by this because I had thought i have broken them all but I guess not. I think this means she is very thankful of me.
-Jem