Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

They have no encounters with Boo, until one day, in the middle of the school year, while Scout is sprinting past the Radley place. She finds two sticks of gum stuck in the knot-hole in one of the Radley's oak trees. After a close inspection of the gum, she crams it into her mouth and enjoys it. When Jem arrives home from school, he is horrified to hear where Scout found the gum and forces her to spit it out. Scout complies, but continues to point out the tree every day to Jem. There is never anything there until, on the day that school lets out, while they are walking home from school, Scout spots another piece of tinfoil in the tree. Subsequently, the children dash toward it and discover their prize; a small, purple, velvet box. Upon opening the box, they discover two polished Indian-head pennies. Scout suggests that the tree might be someone’s secret place and they decide to keep the pennies until school restarts, then ask around to see if anyone is missing them. The thought of them being left there by Boo as gifts to them never even enters their minds. Furthermore, the pennies are quickly forgotten in the wild excitement of Dill returning to Maycomb. After some debate on an activity, the children decide to play a game that consists of one of them crawling into a tire while the others

On the way home, Jem admits to Scout that when he went back to get his pants that night, “they were folded across the fence…like they were expectin’ me.” Additionally, they had been sewn up and mended. The two become suspicious that someone knows where they are, and what they are thinking at any given moment. As they pass the knot-hole in the Radley tree (the place where Scout has found the gum and pennies), they spot a ball of twine. This time, instead of taking it, they leave it for a few days to see if anyone else knows of the spot. Two days pass, and it is still there, so Jem takes it.

In part one of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to Scout, the narrator of the book, her family and other members of the community in which she lives. Scout and her older brother Jem are the children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout and Jem meet Dill, a boy spending the summer with his Aunt Rachel. He is between Scout and Jem’s age and becomes a great friend and playmate. He, like Scout and Jem are enjoying the freedom of no school, using their imagination inventing, and playing games throughout the summer. Next door to Scout and Jem, lives a very curious individual whom they have never seen but heard rumors about. This individual has been kept isolated by his father because of some innocent pranks he was involved in over fifteen years ago. Arthur “Boo” Radley is a young man rumored to be root of all evil in the small town of Maycomb. Curiosity is a theme repeated throughout part one as the Scout, Jem, and Dill desire to know or learn more about life and Boo Radley.

In the rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and Father, Atticus. Scout teaches many lessons as well as defies stereotypes. Scout gives readers her perspective of things. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the growth and characterization of Scout to reveal to readers how innocence slowly falls away through Scout’s obliviousness about other people, Scout’s protection towards her family, and Scout’s curious ways.

Jem, Scout, and Dill had been fascinated by the stories about the Radley house. One day when they were all playing, Dill dared Jem to

Although they did get off on a bad foot, all three of the children hit it off after by spending time together. Because Dill didn’t know much about the neighborhood, Scout and Jem started telling stories about one of the most frightening neighbors, Boo Radley. This includes tales such as how Boo Radley peeks into bedroom windows or likes to kill and eat animals for fun. Even though Dill didn't know much about Mr. Radley, Jem and Scout claimed that they did and were intimidated by him. For example, whenever the children are about to pass by his house, they run for their lives in hopes that Mr. Radley won’t hurt them. Unfortunately for Jem and Scout, Dill was more than happy to know more and more about Boo Radley. This all goes downhill when Dill teases Jem about his fear toward Mr. Radley and dares him to run up and touch the house, which he does. Jem, Scout, and Dill’s relationship with Boo Radley is based on terror and mockery from the kids point of

Arthur Radley also was known as Boo is an unusually secretive character who has a frightening history. Scout hears a story from Stephanie Crawford, the town gossip. Scout is told that Arthur Radley is a dangerous person, who killed his father. When Boo Radley was a teenager he had got not in trouble and instead of sending Boo to boarding school his father kept Boo inside the house for many years. Ms. Crawford had said that “Mrs. Radley ran screaming into the street that Arthur was killing them all” when the police came later they saw that Boo was thirty by then (Lee 13). Even though what he did is not completely known the town has come to know he has someone very dangerous and avoided. As that knowledge is passed down to the children the facts can become warped as they are passed around. Further down the line, Miss Maudie’s house catches fire, and while standing outside Scout gets cold and ends up with a blanket around her. Atticus, Scout, and Jem later realize that Boo must have put the blanket on Scout. Atticus tells Scout to thank him for giving her the blanket, she asks who and he says “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you”(Lee 96). As Scout and Jem become more comfortable with the Radley house they will get closer to it.

The friendship that Scout, Jem and Dill have, contributed to the development of behavior which shapes each child as they grow. After seeing the disapproval of Atticus for the Radley’s game, Scout begins to question the intentions of both Jem and Dill. “Jem, you and me can play and Scout can watch if she’s scared”(page 39) When Scout hesitates in join the boys to play, Dill provokes Scout by insinuating that she is afraid. Scout being the girl of the group has to prove that she can keep up with the boys, as to not be left out she continues playing. The game that brings the children together is a play which exhibits the way the children view the Radleys. The influence of Jem and Dill on Scout, is the only thing

The “summertime boundaries” of Scout and Jem were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose’s house and the Radley Place (7). The Radley house “was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days” (7). It was also “low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long darkened to the color if the

Scout and Jem Finch live in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Every Summer Dill Harris visits and they spend their time trying to figure out a way to get Boo Radley out of his house. The Radley place is “haunted” and Boo never comes out of there. That summer they’re unsuccessful, DIll leaves and school starts. The next winter, a neighbor's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. While Scout and Jem stood sleepily watching everyone fight the fire in the snow, someone puts a blanket around Scout without her noticing. She later found out that it was Boo Radley and she was creeped out.

“To Kill A Mockingbird”, a story by Harper Lee, tells the tale of a young girl named Scout. She lives with her father Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer, and her older brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama. This story follows Scout through the journey of growing up over the time period of a few years, and also shows us her learning some very crucial life lessons.

In the ending scene Jem brakes his arm when Bob Ewell attacked him and Scout on their way home form Scouts pageant. While they were being attack, Boo Radley goes and helps them. He carries them home, but Scout at first doesn't recognize it's Boo. Once she realizes it's Boo Radley that saved them, she walks him home. After Boo enters his home and closes the door Scout stands on the porch and sees Boo's perspective on the town. She also sees that all this time he cared for her and Jem. Finally, Scout goes home which she return to Atticus reading a book called "The Gray Ghost." As Scout is falling asleep Atticus is putting her to bed, and Scout explained how in the book some characters thought that Stoner's Boy was the one messing up their clubhouse.

Fall comes, Dill leaves, and Scout starts school. The Radley Place is in between Scout's house and school, so she has to go by it every day, usually at top speed. One day she notices something odd: a couple of pieces of gum stuck in a hole in the tree. She tells Jem about it, and soon they find other treasures hidden

Scout and her friends are immensely suspicious of the Radley place. They are unsure as to whether or not Boo Radley still lives in the house. They are almost caught peering through the window of the Radley house in hope that they would see Boo Radley. Scout described how “the roar of a shotgun shattered the neighborhood(Lee 53).” Therefore, the fact that they were shot at should discourage them from going back. Meanwhile, they begin to find objects in a knothole of a tree

To start, however, I must explain the whole of the book to you. In the beginning, we are told that the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, is accordingly, small. The Finch family has a predicament where the two children, Scout and Jem, and their friend, Dill, want to investigate the Radley house. The Radley house is the creepiest house on the block, with its broken side panels and hanging shingles. The story tells us of quite the variety of schemes that they pull to try to pull the youngest of the household, Boo Radley, who was approximately his mid-forties, to come outside. At the end of the book they end up getting Boo to save their lives.