Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird Survival Guide

To Kill A Mockingbird Survival Guide

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Chapter 1

Flashback to the time, and events leading up to Jem’s accident Narrated by Jean Louise Finch (Nicknamed Scout). In the chapter we are introduced to Dill, Calpurnia, Atticus, Miss Stephanie Crawford and of course Jem and Scout.

Scout recounts her family history and we begin to understand the Finch’s location and relationship with Maycomb County.

Charles Baker Harris (Dill) is found in Jem and Scout’s next door neighbour’s backyard staying with his aunt, as he does every summer. After they become friends Dill is recounted the rumors of Boo Radley.

Dill shows immense interest in the Radleys over the summer and finally dares Jem to try and make Boo come out of the house. They eventually settle on Jem going up to the Radley Place and touch the house.

After a while of Dills teasing Jem, he finally obliges by the dare. He runs to the house slaps it and rushes back. Nothing happens except Scout thinks someone moved a shutter slightly as if peering out at them.

To Kill A Mockingbird Survival Guide

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Chapter 2

The School year begins in September. Dill leaves as the Summer comes to an end to go back to living with his single mom (ref. Chap pg. 9).

Scout, for the first time is on her way to school. The school, as a setting, brings Ms. Fisher into the story along with the Cunninghams.

As Scout begins class Miss Caroline Fisher and her get off to a bad start because of Scout’s natural gift of reading and is accused of her father teaching her.

Walter Cunningham, at lunch in the school day, is found without food or money. When the teacher offers him a quarter and he refuses to take it. This eventually sparks another conflict between Scout and Miss Fisher because ...

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...rapes a blanket over Scout. Later Atticus asks about it and Scout realises she has no idea who had given her the blanket. Jem than understands that it was Boo Radley who had done this.

They then proceed to tell the story of the knot in the tree, the present, and the mended pants. Atticus instructs them to keep it to themselves. When it occurs to Scout that Boo was right behind her she nearly throws up.

In the morning, Miss Maudie is cheerful even considering the loss of her house and says that it was too big anyways and now she’s already building a smaller house to sustain a bigger garden.

To Kill A Mockingbird Survival Guide

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Chapter 9

Scout nearly gets into another fight with a boy in her class, named Cecil Jacobs, after he declared that “Scout Finch’s daddy defends niggers.” because Atticus was asked to uphold Tom Robinson, a black man