Summary Of The First Chapter Of 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

* 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.

On Sunday, when Atticus has to leave town, Cal takes Jem and Scout to church. They enter the church, sit down, and listen to the Reverend Skyes speak. He talks about how they will all pray for Tom Robinson and his family while he is at court. Scout asks where the hymn books are, and Cal hushes her. When they sing the hymns Zeebo, Cal’s oldest son, goes up to the front of the church. Since the church doesn’t have any hymn books Zeebo has to memorize them and sing a verse to the crowd, which they repeat back to him. Near the end of church the Reverend says that they do not have enough money to give to Tom Robinson’s family. So he closes the church doors and makes the crowd give up ten more dollars to help.

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.

The five aspects of QUEST are the quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. The quester: a young woman, unhappy in her marriage and her life, not too old to learn, and not assertive where men are concerned. A place to go: Southern California from her home near San Francisco. A stated reason to go there: she has been made executor of the will of her former lover, a wealthy and eccentric businessman and stamp collector. Challenges and trials: the heroine meets strange, scary, and dangerous people. She goes on a nightlong excursion through the world of the outcasts and the dispossessed of San Francisco. The real reason to go: she must find out who she can rely on.

On a chilly winter morning, Atticus rushed a tired Jem and Scout into clothing and out of their beds. He told them there was a fire in Miss Maudie’s house and they should stand in front of the Radley house where it was safe. They saw the flames engulfing Miss Maudie’s house and ran down the street to the Radley’s house. Watching the events unfold, Scout said to herself, “…I saw Atticus carrying Miss Maudie’s heavy oak rocking chair, and thought it sensible of him to save what she valued most” (71). She was proud that Atticus thought to save Miss Maudie most prized possession. As members of the community we're pulling furniture out of the house, Dick went to the top and threw furniture out on a mattress. As the flames rose and tore down the stairs,

Based on the description of Maycomb, Alabama, I don’t think that it would be pleasant for me to live or grow up there. It takes place in a country setting, and it seems as if hard work was needed every day to survive, for most people. On page 6, Harper Lee describes the city of Maycomb, Alabama. “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square” (Lee 6). This description of Maycomb characterizes it as an old, tired city which is hot and seems run down. I had never been to any city that seems similar to Maycomb, so I don’t think that I would find it easy to live and grow up there. It seems as much of the population has to work very hard in order to survive and get through their everyday life, making it even harder to adapt to the

Most people have bad history with people in their family. They often feel abandoned. They eventually learn how to cope with it.

On 2/27/2018 at 1:50pm, DHR worker Bridgette Dix and DHR intern Danielle Long visited a middle school in Banks, AL to investigate a call that the department received concerning a 13 year old girl named Meradith Holcomb. Upon arriving to the school, both the DHR worker and intern are welcomed into a room by the school’s counselor. In the room sat Ms. Laura Parsons who had also been called to the school with concerns for the student. As the worker and intern sat down, the counselor put down a stack of papers informing everyone that there was some disturbing info in it that needed to be read. In the stack of papers, Bridgette, Ms. Parsons, and intern Danielle discovered that the 13 year old had written a very explicit novel about two homosexual men as well as wrote notes

As To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee comes to a close in chapter 31 it begins with Scout watching Boo Radley, analyzing his very quiet presence. Without saying a word Boo nodded towards the front door, to which Scout understood he wanted to say goodnight to Jem. Boo stood hesitantly in the doorway, staring at him. With a little encouragement from Scouts inviting hand he heads towards Jem’s bed. “You can pet him, Mr. Arthur he’s asleep” After quickly patting Jem’s head Boo tightens his grip around Scout’s hand signaling he would like to go home, and then asks Scout softly if she would take him. As they began walking to Radley Place Scout reminisces at the light pole remembering the summer and waiting to see even the slightest peak of Boo.

Chapter Two starts off with Herb's three closest friends arriving to clean the Clutter home. At the same time, Perry and Dick go to Mexico using fake checks. In Holcomb, everyone is distrustful of their neighbors, people lock their doors, keep their lights on at all times, and suspect people they've known their whole lives. Bobby Rup, Nancy's boyfriend, is considered the main suspect; however, he is ultimately ruled out even though he is the only person who has a reasonable motive for the murders. Back in Dick and Perry's storyline, parts of Perry's horrible childhood filled with abuse and abandonment are shared with the reader. Within the Clutter investigation, the Holcomb police rule out robbery as a motive, but after finding a missing radio,

Chapter 10 begins with Barrymore being mad at Sir Henry and Watson for hunting down Selden. Barrymore begs the two to let him go just until they get him on a boat to South America. They agree to leave Selden alone and Barrymore is grateful and wishes to do something in return for Sir. Henry. Barrymore had been keeping something about Sir. Charles death. The morning of his death, Barrymore noticed that he received a letter from a nearby town called Coombe Tracey. The letter has a women's writing on it. A few weeks ago before Sir. Charles death, while he was cleaning out the fireplace of Sir. Charles study, he found the charred pieces of the letter. He was able to read the final line " Please, please as you are a gentlemen, burn this

Scout goes to school for the first time and detests it; she didn’t even want to come out of her room. Because she had to wear a dress every day and Jem would laughed at her. She would get into fights with the boys a lot at school. Jem finds gifts apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree near the Radley property. He would keep this to himself for many months; he kept them in a small box in his room. But in the back of his mind he knew Boo left them for him but didn’t know why.

Scout worries that she will be punished for reading with her father after her teacher

scout walks by the radley house everyday but this day in particular she notices something in the knothole of the radley's tree. She works up the courage to go look what is inside of it. When she gets near it she notices it's two pieces of gum. She takes it home, and after some testing to make sure it wasn't poison she chews it. Jem is not very found of the idea and makes her spit it out and the gargle.