Luke Raines
Character Biography
When Dill turned 30 the year was about 1950 or so and he decided to start writing books. He didn’t know what to write about, all he knew is that he loved to write books. He wrote a series of children’s books and he wrote some short stories for magazines. He decided that he wanted to write about something different. He began to write about fashion. After he began to write about fashion he was much happier with his work. When we wrote about fashion he mostly wrote about what was the coolest fashions and what wasn’t hip.
“One of the latest trends fashions in 1961 was the ‘bouffant’ look which was when a dress had a tight top and a puffy bottom”(www.kyrene.k12). Dill thought one really cool look was the beatnik look. Dill would always dress in black and drink coffee in poetry clubs. He met a girl named Julia in on of those clubs. He soon fell in love with Julia and married her in 1964.
“By 1965 jeans were a symbol of rebelliousness political and social beliefs’ (Valene Steele pg 51). Dill began to write about and wear jeans all the time. Eventually he started his own line of jeans. The company fell apart in 1972 when Julia had a baby. He wasn’t making enough money for the baby doing the work that he did so he went back to college and got a teaching degree.
By 1976 Dill didn’t have enough time to write books. His wife divorced him that year. The only way he made money was being a second grade teacher at Dogwood elementary in Wisconsin. When Dill’s son turned 12 Dill decided to tell him about his childhood. Both he and his son were very close. Dill died in 1989. He choked to death on a sandwich.
Everyone was extremely saddened by Dills death. His son never lost his loving feeling for his dad. Everyone went to his funeral Including Scout, Jim, and all of Scout’s children. Dills ex – wife died a year later. Dills son was incredibly depressed but moved on and started writing books about his dads stories of Maycomb.
