To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 11-15 Summary

Living in the sleepy town of Macomb, Alabama, Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch go on different adventures with their 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 Calpurnia teach 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 too 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.

Jem’s relationship with Scout changes as he matures in the story. He goes from a fellow conspirator and playmate for his sister to her protector, resembling Atticus more and more with every chapter. In chapter 4, they are playing a game enacting what they perceive Boo Radley to be like. Atticus interrupts the game and inquires whether the game was about the Radley’s or not. Jem lies, saying no in response. In page 40, Scout yells in confusion and Jem remarks, “Shut up! He’s gone in the living room; he can hear us in there.” This shows his mischievous behaviour and the fact that he is still

At the beginning Scout thought Boo Radley was a scary old man who is chained up in his basement and eat squirrels. They heard stories like he was cutting a newspaper and ended up stabbing his father in the leg. Since then their friend Dill has been working with them to retrieve Boo from his home. Jem and Scout have been getting gifts from Boo in an oak tree knothole and they think that’s his way of communicating with them. But when Mr. Radley filled the hole with cement the children experienced another time with Boo when Mrs. Maudie's house was on fire and out of the blue Scout had a blanket around her that wasn’t there. Towards the end of the chapter, Jem and Scout found themselves in a hassle after walking home from the pageant. Jem got broke

Huck and Tom decided that they needed to plan out, on how to save Jim. Tom talks about how rescuing Jim is too easy, since his uncle trusts everyone on his farm. He tells Huck that there is more honor in having more difficulties, so he wants to add them himself. Huck is surprised to hear this and questions Tom. Tom then talks about what else they will need on their escape. He wants to do everything the harder way. After talking, Tom decides that Jim should cut off his leg to escape, because that how people in the book did it. Huck refuses to listen to his ideas. Tom also wants to give Jim a shirt, and tell him to make a pencil, and write on a journal on the fabric. He advises that jim used his own blood as ink. Huck still refuses to let Jim do any of what he is saying. The two

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.

Chapter 1 begins as a flashback told by the main character and narrator, a young girl named Scout. This retelling of the story continues through the entire book. the author of this novel, Harper Lee, characterizes scout the narrator as an intelligent tomboy who is not so sure she wants to deal with the Radleys. Scout always hung around her older brother Jem and Dill, a boy who visited Maycomb every summer. She was always up for whatever they did and really did not like it when they called her girly. Dill became fascinated with the Radleys and their mysteriously hidden son Boo. Scout urged Dill to let the Radleys keep to themselves, but her harassing of Dill did nothing. Even though Scout is a clever girl, Lee makes it obvious that Scout still

Towards the end of the novel, Scout gets saved by a man, who turns out to be Boo (Arthur) Radley. After everybody finds out Jem is okay, Scout asks Mr. Radley if she could walk him home. “He coughed his dreadful railing cough, and was so shaken he had to sit down.” (371) Since the events of the night were very scary, that made for a very frightened Arthur.

This is when Jem starts to feel empathy for Boo. Scout is even more afraid of Boo after she knows that he had watched them flee the property. When Boo gave them the soap dolls and put them in a knot hole in a tree, Scout still considered “…everything on the Radley place was poisoned… (81)”. But it all “[had] slipped through Jem’s memory (81)” as he went to go get the dolls. They also decide to write a letter to whoever was sending them those gifts. They still denied that it was Boo though, but deep down, they knew that it was Boo who had given the gifts to them. When the knot-hole they had been receiving the gifts from was filled up, Jem started to cry without Scout knowing why, showing that he is starting to realize Boo is a person but Scout still thinks that Boo is an evil man. When a fire sweeps through Maycomb, Boo gave Scout a blanket without her seeing, and her “stomach turned to water and [she] nearly threw up… (96)” because she continues to believe he is a monster. Jem has already learned the lesson of empathy from Boo while Scout still struggles with this concept at this point in the story.

However, when Boo saved Jem, Scout proves her courage, as well as how much she has matured, but grabbing ahold of Boo’s hand and walking him home. With some help from Atticus and Miss Dubose, Scout was able to show her new found

-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): In chapter fourteen, their Aunt comes to live with them. Since their Aunt started to live with them, things at their house has changed a lot. One night, Jem tells Scout to behave and he starts to be mean and they get in a fight.

Scout is standing on the street watching the fire along with the rest of the town when Boo Radley puts a blanket on Scout without her knowing it. When she gets home and is laying in her bed, she realizes it. She tells Jem and Dill and if fuels their need to know more about him. Towards the end of the story, Jem and Scout are attacked by Bob Ewell. Boo Radley sees them and saves the kids.

Jem and Scout are growing further apart and on top of that Dill won’t be coming to Maycomb this summer because he has a new father. Cal takes the children to her church and since the church knows about what Atticus is doing for Tom they open the children with open arms. The reverend is collecting money for Tom’s wife and he locks everyone in the church until the come up with $10 for her. When Scout and Jem return home Aunt Alexandria is there waiting for them. Chapter 13:

Mr.Tate is called to the witness stand, and Mr.Gilmer asked him what happened the night of November 21st. Mr.Tate says that Bob Ewell brought him to the Ewell house, where he found Mr.Ewell’s daughter, who had been beaten badly. Atticus question Mr.Tate and asked if he called a doctor and he says no,Atticus asked Mr.Tate to describe Mayella's injuries and he says she had bruises and a black eye. Atticus asked which eyes was it and Mr.Tate says it was the left eye. Bob Ewell's was called to the witness stand and he was telling us what he saw the night of November 21st he says that he heard his daughter scream so he ran looked through the window and saw Tom Robinson raping his daughter.Atticus ask Mr.Ewell's if he could read and

In chapter 28 it talks about the jem and scout; walking home and then Bob Ewell comes out; and tries to hurt the kids; but then Boo; comes out of nowhere; and saves the kids from Bob Ewell.

In chapter 24, Aunt Alexandra hosts a missionary tea party at the Finch’s house. While this party is happening, a few odd things were occurring. First of all, Alexandra let Calpurnia serve the tea. Second of all, Scout is indoors while Alexandra is having her party. Scout accidentally walks by Aunt Alexandra, and she invites Scout to the party.