Miss Caroline first reprimands Scout for being able to read, and then punishes her for explaining the story of Walter Cunningham. Scout realizes that she hates school, mainly because of her first grade teacher Miss Caroline. Jem tells Scout to leave him alone during school. The first time they did so, they saw a shutter move, indicating that Boo Radley was watching them.ĭuring September, Dill left and the children went to school. (Spoiler alert, he doesn’t and he’s actually a nice guy.) They play games involving the house such as going up to it and slapping it. The children all think he looks and acts like a monster.

The group was later charged and in order to avoid sending Boo to a jail, the father locked him in the house for 15 years. The story of the son, Boo Radley, went that when he was a boy, we got caught up in a boy’s gang. The Radley residents were always solitary people who didn’t go to church and didn’t talk with anyone. The Radley house is described as a worn-down, spooky house with a malevolent phantom inside. One summer, they were introduced to Dill, who had a wide imagination and gave them the idea to experiment with the Radley house. Dubose’s house, in which they were never tempted to cross either one. Their boundaries in which they could leave the house went as far as the radley house and Mrs. The mother died when Scout was two and Jem was six. Scout lives on the main residential street her household consists of: her, Jem, Atticus, and Calpurnia. The town they live in, Maycomb County, was an old town where all residents were related to each other.

The Finch family and descendants stayed on Finch Landing until the 20th century, when Atticus and Uncle jack left to pursue their careers.Ītticus’ first clients were the Haverford brothers and their case gave Atticus a profound distaste for criminal law. He left England to escape persecution from the Methodists, and he soon established Finch Landing on the Alabama River. It then delves into the ancestry of the Finch family beginning with Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall, England.

The story begins with Scout telling how Jem broke his arm.

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