Month: February 2015

Why does Atticus keep his markmanship a secret? Atticus kept this a secret because he didn’t want Scout and Jem to look up to all of Atticus’s past.  As a child you would look up to your parents talents and you would want to learn more about the subject. Atticus doesn’t want Scout and Jem…

In this chapter we learn a lot about atticus. Attics and Uncle Jack have a talk about scout and atticus defending a negro. Scout in the back is listening. A quotation was ‘Many years later I realised he (Atticus) wanted me to hear wvery word he  said’. Atticus knew that scout was listening to the…

After school has begun for the year, Jem tells Scout that he found the pants mysteriously mended and hung neatly over the fence. When they come home from school they find another present hidden in the knothole it was a ball of gray twine. They leave it there for a few days, but no one…

Jem and Dill obey Atticus until Dill’s last day in Maycomb, when he and Jem plan to sneak over to the Radley Place and peek in through a loose shutter. Scout accompanies them, and they creep around the house, peering in through various windows. Suddenly, they see the shadow of a man with a hat…

Jem and Dill grow closer together, and Scout begins to feel left out of their friendship. As a result, she starts spending much of her time with one of their neighbors, Miss Maudie Atkinson, a widow with a passion for gardening and cake baking. She tells Scout that Boo Radley is still alive and it…

Chapter Four: The rest of the school year passes badly for Scout, who faces a curriculum that moves too slowly and leaves her constantly frustrated in class. After school one day, she passes the Radley Place and sees some tinfoil sticking out of a knothole in one of the Radleys’ oak trees. Scout reaches into…

In chapter three at lunch Scout rubs Walters nose with dirt for getting her in trouble but Jem stops scout and invites Walter to lunch. At the Finch house, Walter and Atticus discuss farm conditions, and Walter puts molasses all over his meat and vegetables, to Scout’s disgust. When she criticizes Walter, Calpurnia calls her into…

In chapter two Dill leaves Maycomb to return to the town Merridian. Scout prepares to go to school for the first time. Once scout gets to school she meets her new teacher Miss Caroline Fisher who deals poorly with children. Once Miss Caroline concludes that scout was taught how to read by Atticus Miss Caroline…