Nightmare on my Street

3/6/2019

In Chapter 1, Scout, Jem, and Dill are fascinated by the Radley house. When you were a child, was there a neighbor, family member, or place that scared you? Describe that person/place as you remember them and think about how your experience parallels the children in the novel.

83 Comments

Preston

3/6/2019 01:12:17 pm

There wasn’t really ever a place that I was scared of.

Aidan

3/6/2019 01:13:46 pm

Mhmm sure

Griffin Mylan

3/6/2019 01:17:58 pm

Fair enough

Will

3/6/2019 01:27:04 pm

Oh I wish I could be like you

Aidan

3/6/2019 01:13:23 pm

My uncle Dahle. He always wanted to talk and stuff but he was missing most of his teeth and the teeth that remained were stained yellow. He also wore dirty clothes and smelt like oil. He was my uncle so I had to talk to him but I only would say hi and me my cousin agreed he was creepy.

Taija

3/6/2019 01:15:25 pm

My uncle is pretty creepy too.

Emma Dahle

3/6/2019 01:15:41 pm

Dude same. That’s crazy.

Preston

3/6/2019 01:15:49 pm

Sketchy

Johnny

3/6/2019 01:17:26 pm

That would’ve creeped me out too

Jordan

3/6/2019 01:14:11 pm

There wasn’t ever really anything that I was scared of.

Jordan

3/6/2019 01:14:36 pm

A place*

Taija

3/6/2019 01:14:23 pm

When I was younger I would ride bikes with my sister. We would ride them up and down the streets and would ride in the neighbors driveways. Whenever we went in there driveway they would yell at us.

Alexia

3/6/2019 01:20:37 pm

I can relate

Emma Dahle

3/6/2019 01:14:30 pm

When I was little I didn’t get scared about places or people. I can’t think of any place that scared me that I could describe. No one really scared me because I thought everyone was my friend.

Preston

3/6/2019 01:15:15 pm

Relatable

Jordan

3/6/2019 01:16:03 pm

Honestly same though

Tierryn

3/6/2019 01:17:46 pm

We love a social sister.

Alexia

3/6/2019 01:19:22 pm

Too bubbly to have enemies I see

Lani Belgarde

3/6/2019 01:15:07 pm

I’ve never been scared of my neighbors but I’ve lived in sketchy places.

Sammy H.

3/6/2019 01:17:19 pm

Me too.

Jaicei

3/6/2019 01:18:02 pm

I’m scared of your neighbors.

Sammy H.

3/6/2019 01:15:33 pm

My old neighbor here in Salmon had a creepy barn next to his house that scared me for a long time. I finally got to go inside and it wasn’t that bad after all.

Taija

3/6/2019 01:16:28 pm

That’s cool.

Jordan

3/6/2019 01:17:13 pm

That sounds cool

Dillon

3/6/2019 01:15:47 pm

When I was little everyone thought my basement was haunted. It was cold and dark. I was scared of it and didn’t want to go near it.

Sammy H.

3/6/2019 01:17:52 pm

My basement was like this and it would flood a lot.

Johnny

3/6/2019 01:18:20 pm

I didn’t know you had a basement

Sam

3/6/2019 01:19:41 pm

Relatable

Tierryn

3/6/2019 01:15:48 pm

When I was a kid I lived in Las Vegas and overall it was very scary. There were shootings in my neighborhood so yeah I was scared of my neighborhood. They don’t really have a reason to be scared, I was scared of getting shot up walking to school.

Emma Dahle

3/6/2019 01:17:13 pm

Las Vegas scares me now that I know where it’s at and what happens.

Faith

3/6/2019 01:17:47 pm

Ohhh that is scary

Jaicei

3/6/2019 01:18:43 pm

I would honestly be terrified

Jaicei

3/6/2019 01:15:50 pm

I was scared of my neighbors house because there was a story that the old lady that lived there would give out candy with super glue in it on Halloween.

Chayla

3/6/2019 01:17:31 pm

That sounds like a scary story to hear as a kid

Sammy H.

3/6/2019 01:18:30 pm

That’s freaky.

Sam

3/6/2019 01:20:33 pm

I would be scared of that too.

Avery

3/6/2019 01:21:14 pm

Neighbors can be very scary

Chayla

3/6/2019 01:15:52 pm

I was always scared of the downstairs of my house. When someone is walking around upstairs it creaks and the sounds used to scare me. I always tried to find an excuse not to go down there.

Dillon

3/6/2019 01:17:07 pm

Same, downstairs are creepy.

Griffin Mylan

3/6/2019 01:18:35 pm

Same

Mackay

3/6/2019 01:23:02 pm

That’s relatable.

Avery

3/6/2019 01:16:37 pm

When I was around the age of 10, we lived by an old Russian couple. They were around the age of 60. They adopted a little Russian girl that was 6. They were really creepy. I came to find out that they they got charged with murder. The little girl ended up going back to Russia.

Taylee Matthews

3/6/2019 01:18:08 pm

That is so creepy

Brooke

3/6/2019 01:19:53 pm

Defiantly would not like that.

Eli

3/6/2019 01:20:53 pm

That’s a sad story.

Miriam

3/6/2019 01:23:24 pm

That’s really creepy

Mackay

3/6/2019 01:23:36 pm

That is weird.

Sam

3/6/2019 01:16:37 pm

When I was young there was a guy who lived on my street and he was definitely a little weird. He painted his house a different neon color almost every year and when my sister and I would wait in the car for my mom to take us somewhere he would walk by and look at us through the windows. It’s is similar to the novel because we were kind of scared to go by his house and everyone in the neighborhood was afraid of him.

Avery

3/6/2019 01:19:09 pm

Looking through people’s car is very creepy.

Taylee Matthews

3/6/2019 01:22:56 pm

Agree with aves

Faith

3/6/2019 01:16:47 pm

My neighbor. He was really scary and always tried to talk to me and my brother. He was a drug dealer so my mom always told me to stay away from him.

Chayla

3/6/2019 01:18:13 pm

How did you know he was a drug dealer?

Faith

3/6/2019 01:19:07 pm

He tried to sell my dad some drugs

Tierryn

3/6/2019 01:20:33 pm

Don’t do drugs kids.

Blazen Burgess

3/7/2019 01:15:00 pm

What a nice guy.

Johnny

3/6/2019 01:16:50 pm

I lived in a pretty big neighborhood and played in basically everyone’s yards whether they wanted me to or not. I had a couple neighbors that we would try to be more stealthy when going through their yards

Dillon

3/6/2019 01:18:14 pm

Did you ever get caught?

Johnny

3/6/2019 01:19:01 pm

No. I was too good for that

Eli

3/6/2019 01:26:34 pm

Nice story Johnny

Eli

3/6/2019 01:17:25 pm

When I was young my dad told me about this guy who lived on this hill. I also hated walking by his property, just like the kids in the book.

Johnny

3/6/2019 01:19:47 pm

That’s scary

Griffin Mylan

3/6/2019 01:17:41 pm

One place I was scared of as a little kid was a burnt down abandoned house. It was just really scary that’s about it

Faith

3/6/2019 01:19:39 pm

That’s cool

Caden Caywood

3/6/2019 01:21:07 pm

That would indeed be scary

Alexia

3/6/2019 01:18:25 pm

My uncle Dave used to tell my brother and I that whatever he was drinking (different alcoholic drinks) were to keep him young which made my brother and I think he was evil. This relates to the characters because they don’t know the real story of the Radley place so they’re scaring themselves.

Ariana

3/7/2019 01:12:10 pm

Wow that is scary

Jamie

3/6/2019 01:20:15 pm

Getting taken away from my mom, and going through the sprinkled trauma throughout my childhood, ya know dyin’, gettin abducted and all that Jazz I was soon to be cautious of all things on the street. Nobody should fear anything though, especially not the unknown, because if you worry and worry and you say frequently that you’re scared, the panic fear will be attracted to you, just choose the karma you want drawn to you.

Caden Caywood

3/6/2019 01:20:24 pm

I was scared to go past this plant selling place in the trees behind my house. When we would ride bikes back there I would always be scared what was inside.

Will

3/6/2019 01:26:04 pm

Oh that is pretty scary

Blazen Burgess

3/7/2019 01:16:51 pm

That’s scary.

Miriam

3/6/2019 01:21:34 pm

When I was a kid I was scared to go to the “woods” by myself. It was a big field right behind my house that we have tree houses in and it was so much fun but you would have to gross a creek to get there and I was scared to cross it by myself because my mom would always tell me to be careful. But are I got older I got use to it.

Brooke

3/6/2019 01:23:09 pm

That’s very good.

Ariana

3/7/2019 01:11:47 pm

Good comment

Will

3/6/2019 01:21:41 pm

When I was a young innocent child I had a neighbor with an old beat up house that was very scare. We use to ride our bikes past it and try to see if there was anyone in the house. This is very similar to the experience that the children had in the book, although I never was man enough to go and touch the house.

Treygan

3/7/2019 01:15:42 pm

That sounds very scary good thing you ride bikes

Brooke

3/6/2019 01:22:04 pm

When I was little I was scared of my friends attic. They told me they had a ghost and I didn’t like that. It was dark and cold that made it worse.

Miriam

3/6/2019 01:24:02 pm

Attics can be kind of sketchy

Mackay

3/6/2019 01:24:28 pm

When I was little I was always scared of the neighbors house at the end of our road. Anytime we got close to this house, the mans dogs would all start barking and try to get out of the fence. I would always try to walk as far away from the house as I could trying not to make the dogs bark.

Taylee Matthews

3/6/2019 01:25:25 pm

I was always scared of our upstairs. It was cold creepy and dark. I never wanted to go up there

Ariana

3/7/2019 01:11:35 pm

When I was little I was afraid of the dark. I hated going outside when it was dark.

Treygan

3/7/2019 01:14:54 pm

I had the same fear

Blazen Burgess

3/7/2019 01:14:18 pm

I was always scared of my basement. Especially when it was dark. Now I live down there so I think I got over it.

Treygan

3/7/2019 01:14:36 pm

When I lived in Firth there was a really old bridge that was cracked and falling apart but my sister and I would always cross it as fast as we could to get to the other field to play.

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