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Chapter 1 Summary
In chapter one the narrator Scout is introduced, who lives in Maycomb Alabama with their father Atticus Finch. She starts to explain the different events that led up to the break of her brothers Jems arm. They meet a boy named Dill who is spending the summer with his aunt. Dill, Scout, and Jem become good friends and become curious about the neighbor Boo Radley. So they dare Jem to run up and touch Boo Radleys house.
Chapter 1 AnalysisThe first chapter is the introduction that sets the main theme throughout the book and introduces the setting and main characters. The first chapter is what shows the reader what type of book it is, and makes them want to find out what happens next. The curiousity that the kids have for Boo Radley also makes the reader curious about Boo.
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Chapter 2 Summary
In chapter two Dill leaves Maycomb and returns to Mississippi. Scout begins going to school and automatically doesn't like it. Scout does not like her teacher Mrs. Cunningham as she critisized Scout for knowing how to read. Scout also sticks up for a poor boy named Walter when the teacher offers to lend him a quarter in front of everyone knowing that his family cannot repay her. The teacher gets mad at Scout and hits her.
Chapter 2 Analysis
This chapter shows the diversity in money throughout the families that live in Maycomb. The teacher gets mad when she finds out scout can read, when usually a teacher would not get mad about something like that. The teacher Mrs.Maycomb shows no sympathy towards the students in her class.
Chapter 3 Summary
In chapter three Scout gets mad at Walter because she got in trouble for helping him. Walter talks at lunch and tells Atticus how he won't be able to pass first grade because he has to help his father with farm work. Scout judges Walter as he pours molasses on his food and eats it. Calpurnia explains to Scout that it is rude and wrong to comment about someone acting like the is better than them. Miss caroline wants to send a boy Burris Ewell home when she see's that he is dirty and needs to bathe. The teacher tells Scout that she needs to stop reading at home but Atticus tells her he will keep reading with her.
Chapter 3 Analysis
In chapter three Scout is judgemental towards Walter when he says he can't pass, thinking just because he is poor he is dumb. She also judges him when he does something different than she does, like eat his food differently. Atticus still reading with Scout after the teacher said not to shows that he doesn't care what the teacher, or someone in charge says.
Chapter 4 SummaryIn chapter four scout notices a piece of gum in a hole as she walks past Boo Radleys house one day. Her and Jem later notice two pennies in the same spot. Jem gets curious and begins to wonder if maybe Boo is trying to connect with them. When Dill comes back for summer they have to come up with a new game to play after Scout fell out of tire they were playing with. Jem thinks of a new game where they act out Boo Radley. When they are asked by Atticus if they are impersonating Boo they lie and say no.
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Chapter 4 Analysis
In chapter four Scout is clueless and doesn't know who could be leaving those things. Jem is older and he thinks that Boo Radley has something to do with it. Jem, Dill, and Scout continue to obsess over Boo Radley. I think that Jem lied about impersonating him, because he didn't want to get in trouble and didn't want to have to stop doing it.
Chapter 5 Summary
In chapter five Jem and Dill start to leave out Scout and exclude him from their games. Scout starts to spend time with Miss Maudie Atkinson. Miss Maudie grew up with Atticus, and answered some questions that Scout has about Boo Radley. She tells him that he was a very nice and polite boy but does not come outside because he doesn't want to. His father is very religious and does not want Boo having fun thinking it was a sin. The kids try to put a note in Boo's window but Atticus see's them and tells them to stop.
Chapter 5 Analysis
In chapter five when Miss Maudie tells Scout about Boo Radley, scouts perception of Boo begins to change. She starts to think of him more as a boy whose dad punishes him by not showing him love or fun instead of the scary person they thought of him as before. Also Atticus tries to teach them not to mess with someone just because they are different.