To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter Summary

* Scout reveals she heard laughing when she rolled into the radley place but jem doesn’t know

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird' many morals about the themes in the novel are portrayed through different issues and events. The major themes are appearance vs. reality courage, maturity and prejudice. Each of these themes has an event in the novel that help the reader understand its message.

1) What do we learn about Atticus Finch, his children and the town of Maycomb in the first chapter?

Chapters 2-4 (homework): This section of the book begins by Scout telling of Dill’s leaving is September, and the start of school. Scout develops a dislike for her teacher, Miss Caroline, when she tells her that Atticus can no longer teach her any further because he’s already caused enough “damage.” Jem tells Scout not to worry about it, though. Before the students are dismissed for lunch, Miss Caroline corners Walter Cunningham in an awkward position when she offers him money for his lunch.

We will read chapter 10 in To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of the story is the 1930’s in rural Alabama where prejudice of skin color is alive and well. Atticus Finch is the protagonist in the the story and he has two young curious children named Jem and Scout. jem is a Boy Scout is a girl. When Atticus is appointed by the local judge to defend a black man accused of raping a white women most of townspeople expect only a token defense. However Atticus believes in giving the black man Tom Robison a fair trial and struggles to see justice done. A separate plot exists in the story as well it is how the children come to accept a mentally ill neighbor.

During the knothole scenes, which are in chapter 7 and 8. Scout and Jem begin to find items left in a tree outside of the Radley's house. However, they never discover who left the items there. Because of this I believe the scene is showing that there are good people in the world who will never be known.

While in the summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who journeyed to Maycomb to visit and explore for the season. He becomes intrigued by the ominous nature of the Radley residence, which entertains Jem and Scout. When summer was over, Scout goes to school for the first time; on their way to school/home, Jem and Scout find gifts left for them in a knothole inside of a tree on the Radley residence. Atticus takes note of Jem and Scout’s sudden fixation in the Radley place and insists that they should see life from another person’s perspective before they judge anyone. Later, before Dill leaves again for the end of summer, the kids sneak over to the Radley house. While there, they are scared off by the shooting of Nathan Radley while

They were babies, really – a teenage cousin, a brother of 22, a childhood friend in his mid-20s all gone down in episodes of bravado played out in the streets.”(paragraph.6) Staples uses personal stories of conflict and pathos to illustrate violence and the emotional/physical price it has on people and their attitudes.

In Chapter 20 of To Kill a Mockingbird Dill does not like the how mean Mr. Gilmer was to Tom Robinson causing Dill to cry. Jem, Scout and Dill then leave the courtroom to give Dill some time outside. While outside they meet Mr. Raymond who gives Dill a sip of his drink from a paper bag. Dill then finds out that it isn't alcohol inside the bag but it instead Coca-Cola. Raymond then explains to Jem, Scout and Dill that he pretends to be drunk to hang out with black people.

Atticus Hill cherished and fostered his role as the bad boy in the family. He always dressed in all black, rode a Harley, and had long, shaggy black hair. But now that all his brothers had found their Mr. Right he thought maybe, at age thirty-nine, it was time to look around for a partner. He thought the drummer at the gay bar was sexy, so headed off there to check him out.

In the second chapter of To Kill A Mockingbird Dill leaves Maycomb to return to the town of Meridian.Scout prepares to go to school for the first time.On her first day her teacher Miss Caroline Fisher told her not to let her parents teach her reading.Scout and Miss Fisher doesn’t get along very well.At the end of chapter two miss Fisher hits her with a ruler six times and tells her to go in the corner becuase she got Miss Fisher mad.

Unsurprisingly, the town is not happy about this. Jem and Scout, encounter a lot of playground and adult bullying, but they stand by their dad. Jem and Scout make a new friend name Dill, Dill is fascinated with Boo Radley and convinces Jem and Scout to help him try to get Boo to come out

In the first chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean Louise, otherwise known as Scout, is introduced as the narrator. Scout is the youngest child of Atticus Finch, a civil rights lawyer. Scout’s older brother is Jem, and he is thirteen. The story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, a boring city where people tend to move slowly because the city is quite boring. The Finch family lives with Calpurnia, a worker for the family. Scout’s mother died when she was two years old and she doesn’t remember much about her, but Jem does. When Jem and Scout were playing outside, they heard a loud noise at their neighbor’s house. They walked over to the house to see a boy sitting there named Charles Baker Harris, also known as Dill. Dill brags about how well he can read to Jem and Scout. The

Then suddenly, a stronger sooty sensation filled John’s nose. His eyes mirrored the flaming cross outside the bus. Frantically spitting on the glass, the white figures shook the bus. Their pitch forks scraped against the bus creating a sharp screech. They shake their fists. Beginning to break, the protestors cry. John remained resolute. A sludge of gasoline is poured around the bus by the furious mob. More black smoke entered the bus, causing John to cough extremely. “Stay low!” John commanded. He could taste the sooty smoke in his mouth. The protestors in panic, scatter around the bus. Windows begin to shatter. Shards of glass flew through the air as the mob’s wrath struck the windows of the bus. Outside the bus, the gasoline became alive. It breathed its smoky breath into the bus. Black fog clouded the mobs vision, as it swallowed more and more of the white figures. Frailly, John crawled towards the broken door. He smashed the door down with his bare hands. Gasping for air, his lungs filled with smoke. His eyes stinging. His spirit broken. He looked back at his teammates. It was as if death was outside the bus; they were crying on the ground. Roars of the flame intensify as the bus set on fire. Additional enraged black fog spread further apart, making the white figures cough severely. In the bus, the agonizing screams stop. Steadily the flames crept closer and closer to John. A burning sensation on the skin of his face. Surrounded by red flames John kept still. Shutting his eyes, he thought to himself; it’s over. On the spur of the moment he heard a sudden tapping against the roof of the bus. It was raining. Desperately crawling through the dampened flames, His heart thumped faster as he hoped to escape. Painfully thrusting his slightly burnt legs into the ground, John managed to stand up. The black plumes continued to sting his eyes. The furious mob still standing, also couldn’t see through the

In chapter five of "To Kill A Mocking Bird", the children vision Boo Radley as a frightening character. Miss Maudie claims that Boo Radley's biological name is Arthur, and he was claimed to be a "foot washing Baptist" and doesn't leave his house. "His name's Arthur and he's still alive"(Lee 43). "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist"(Lee 44). "Foot-washers believe that anything that's pleasure is a sin"(Lee 44). The evidence proves how "Boo" Radley or "Arthur" Radley was a foot-washer and never left his house. Atticus also views "Boo Radley" a little differently. Atticus just informs the children to stop bugging Boo and to let him live his life the way he wants to. "I'm going to tell you something and only one time: stop tormenting that man"(Lee 49). "What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside from the attentions of inquisitive children,..."(Lee 49). Evidence explains exactly how Atticus wants the children to leave him alone and