To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee :: To Kill a Mockingbird Essays

A summary When Scout was six, dill (Charles Baker Harris) experiences to visit his aunt and becomes good friends with the Finches. The children in Maycomb spend both their free quantify of summer trying to get Boo (Arthur) Radley come out of his house. None of the children have ever seen the mysterious man that lives following(a) door, but they never come up out that he is actually fill up up in this house. After the summer is over, Scout enters school and gets into put under because she already knows how to read and to write. She is always constantly getting into fights with boys like Walter Cunningham, the boy of a poor farmer. During that year, Scout and her older brother Jem begin to find things in a hole in a tree on the Radley property as they pass it going to and from school. The next summer, Dill returns and the tierce continue their plans to make Boo Radley emerge from his house. They try to use a fishing pole to stick a note onto one of the windows of the Radleys. sensation night they decided to sneak up to one of the windows to have a peek inside. Jem reaches the porch when a shadow appears and the three of them run for their lives just as a shotgun blast is heard. Jem gets caught on the fence by his knee breeches so he has to slip out of them in order to escape. afterward he tries to go get the pants that he lost and is afraid. A little bit later Scout hears that the pants were mended very curiously and lying on the fence. The next fall, the children make their first snowman. During this cold spell, put down Maudies house burns down and Scout and Jem have to stand outdoors for fear that their house might also burn down. While they ar shivering in the cold, someone wraps a blanket about emissary without their knowing it. All indications point to Boo Radley putting the blanket around her. About this time, the children begin to hear in the town that their father is a nigger- lover. Atticus warns his children never to fight about this, but at Christmas time when one of Scouts cousins makes the same statement, she bloodies his nose. That Christmas, both children receive air rifles but they be given instructions that they must never kill a