VERSION 2

Mr. Conner: "I Don't feel intimidated" 

Since many years, a little and calm town called Maycomb has had it's own beadle, who's name has never been revealed, but everyone knows him as "Mr Conner". One week has passed since the day he was involved, due to his work and duty in an incident. After being the one who was trying arrest the vandals, Mr. Conner finished arrested and locked. Also the case ended up in tribunals, with the vandals being judged with numerous charges.

Good morning Mr. Conner, how are you feeling today?

Good morning, actually I am feeling really good, I would like to say that I feel really thankful for the opportunity that you gave me to do this interview and to express my point of view and feelings towards this situation.

A situation that was really weird, wasn't it? tell us what happened that night and how it ended up the way it did.

Well, indeed it was a really weird situation (laughs). It all started around 10:30 pm, I was already one or half an hour on my turn of security as a beadle, when I started listening to all this disorder that was being caused by some group of boys on a car, that I can ensure it was a borrowed fliver. They were screaming like crazy and shouting cuss words in a way that I am sure everyone in the town could listen to. I came closer to the car and the group of boys, because that's what they are, just a group of badly educated boys, and tried to be reasonable and tell them to stop doing that massive disorder, but they didn't do anything about it, so I had to start applying my authority as a beadle in charge to maintain the order, so I proceed to arrest them all, but they resisted and turned aggressive, they took me to the courthouse outhouse and locked me inside.

Do you know who were the "boys" that were causing all that disorder and locked you?

Of course I know them, O knew who each one of them was even from before, they had a lot of background issues that involved all kind of public disorder and bad attitude towards the calm of the town. They are probably the closest thing to a gang that has ever existed in Maycomb.

How did you "escape" from the courthouse outhouse where you were locked and how did the case end up in tribunals?

Well after being locked for some hours listening to all the disorder that they kept making I tried not to desperate until they left. Some minutes after they left someone passed close to the outhouse and i asked for help, he helped me and I had to explain all the story, making myself look like the worst beadle in history (laughs). The next day I went and talked to authorities of the town (the real authorities), they obviously decided that something had to be done, and because I knew them all, it wasn't difficult to make them come before the judge with charges of: Disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and the last but most important one in my opinion: the use of abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of females.

Why did you include that last charge and what was the judge's final decision? how do you feel after all of this?

The judge asked me the same question (laughs) I included that one because because I am sure every lady in Maycomb heared them, they were screaming like beasts. The judge decided to send the vandals to the state industrial school, but as far as I know there's one that didn't go, Arthur Radley, because his father talked personally to the judge. After all this situation I feel good but I am not really happy with the decision of the judge, still, I don't feel intimidated, but groups of little vandals like this one, that make disorder, take advantages of a calm town like Maycomb, because they won't receive really tough penalties.

One last question Mr. Conner, do you know what happened with that boy that didn't go to the state industrial school? 

As i said before, the father of this boy had a personal talk with the judge he was able to change the dictamination for his son, but he took a decision that I find more solid and correct for this situation, he had his son locked inside his house forever or for a long time. This is correct because he got in problems for locking me, and ended up locked inside his own house, that is a good and responsible father with conscience for the community and society.  

rationale

 My written task consisted in writing a text of personal choice, after reading the book "To Kill A Mockingbird". I decided to make an interview to Mr Conner because I found it appropiate for the situation that I wanted to tackle, which is when Mr Conner was locked by Arthur Radley and his friends in the courthouse outhouse.

Because it being an interview I imagined it being published on a newspapaer or magazine so the audience that I wanted to target are all the possible readers of it. When talking about the register that I used it was always a formal one because of the context that my text was in.

In general the interview has a serious tone in it’s overall structure but sometimes, for example, the answers by Mr Conner included laughs which created a relaxed atmosphere.

The main purpose that I have with this interview is to express a point of view of a not so important character in a wider way because I realized all the potential that this situation and particular character had to make an interesting interview.  

To conclude, I think that this written task has a lot of learning outcomes for this course of language and literature, because it was about reading a book, understanding the ideas of it and finally writing a text in which you had to adapt your thoughts to an specific structure.