Write A Narrative Essay On Jasper Jones

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run, but decided to keep looking for a key to the barn. After going thru the house and not finding anything, we headed toward the barn, but the scarecrow caught my eye and I decided to check him out. None of us thought to question the pumpkin head, but around its arm was a key hanging from a string. I took it over to the barn to see if it worked on the lock, and surprisingly it worked. As we opened up the barn door,we heard a noise in back of us, as we turned we saw the pitchfork stuck in the ground behind us and the scarecrow was gone. Then we heard a rustling on the other side of the barn, and a black hooded figure flashed by a window. We all screamed, and ran as far away from the barn as fast as we could. “ I don’t know about you guys, but I have seen enough. This is way too freaky!” said Jerry. Luke, in a shaky voice said “ Where did the scarecrow go? Do you think someone is playing a trick on us?” I was about to answer when something hit the ground. It was the pitchfork the scarecrow was holding. “Where did that come from? Who threw that at us? Whoever, is out there, …show more content…
Then we heard a rustling on the other side of the barn, and a black hooded figure flashed by a window. We all screamed, and ran as far away from the barn as fast as we could. “ I don’t know about you guys, but I have seen enough. This is way too freaky!” said Jerry. Luke, in a shaky voice said “ Where did the scarecrow go? Do you think someone is playing a trick on us?” I was about to answer when something hit the ground. It was the pitchfork the scarecrow was holding. “Where did that come from? Who threw that at us? Whoever, is out there, show yourself, this isn’t funny!” I yelled. The sun had set and the property was pitch black. We couldn’t see anything, but we thought we heard some laughing coming from the

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