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Arthur Radley's Journey

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Living in the sleepy town of Macomb, Alabama, Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch go on different adventure with there foreign comrade Dill. In doing so they discover Arthur Radley also known as Boo an old man who has never ventured out past his doorstep. There father Atticus, a peaceful and quiet lawyer and their black maid Culperina teache them import lesson about racial equality. During the fall Dill returns home and Scout goes to school. She detests it for she is very smart and to advanced for the class. During school Jem and scout find a hole in a tree filled with gum. They take the gum, but little do they know that Arthur Radley had placed it there for them to enjoy. Later in that year they spy on boo only to discover that he wanted to be left alone. Sumer comes around and Dill returns for more adventures. That summer Dill and Scout make plans to get married, but eventually forget. That summer Jem and Dill start to become more distant from Scout because they claim that she was becoming to girlish. So instead of playing with the boys she stays inside helps Culperina. In doing so she learns and awful lot about the way that other people live. She …show more content…

During the winter, Scout wakes up to snow and is scared for she has never seen it before. Her father reassures her and she goes to play with Jem in the snow. School ends later that year and dill comes to play with them during the summer. During the Summer Atticus accepts to defend Tom Robinson in court. Tom Robinson was a black man who had been accused of raping the daughter of a wealthy man named Mr. Ewell. During the trial Scout learned racial equality was a necessity that people needed to learn for a man with a white skin is just as valuable than a man with a black skin. Atticus does not win the trial, since the jury can not convict a white man against a black. This cause a feud between the Ewells and the

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