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

To Kill A MockingbirdWhen watch is six years old she meets dill who is visiting his aunt there in Maycomb for the summer. Sc divulge and her brother Jem play with Dill and try to figure out ways to catch a glimpse of their weird neighbor Boo Radley. Boo is qabalistic to them because he always stays in the house and they have never seen him before.After the summer is over, school is about to start and Dill goes back household toMississippi. This is Scouts first year of school and on her first day she gets into trouble with the teacher because she already knows how to read and write, and gets into a fight with Walter Cunningham. While walking nucleotide from school one day Scout finds a stick of gum in a hole in a tree by the Radleys yard. Later on Scout and Jem find more gifts in the tree, but then suddenly Mr. Radley fills the hole with cement and the gifts stop.After school is over Dill comes back to Maycomb. Scout, Jem, and Dill continueto try to get Boo to come out of t he house, but with no luck. Then they decide that onDills last night in Maycomb they would crawl under the fence in the back yard of theRadley place and take a peek into one of the windows. This project backfires when Mr.Radley comes out with a shot gun and fires into the air. While running away from Mr.Radley Jem gets his pants caught while trying to get back under the fence and has to built in bedout of them to get away. Later that night he goes back for his pants and find them folded over the fence and roughly mended.That following winter Maycomb had its first vitamin C since 1885. At first Scoutthought that the earth was ending, she had never seen snow before. Scout and Jem madea snow man that looked exactly like Mr. Avery. During that icy spell Mrs. Radley dies,and Miss Maudies house burns down. While Scout and Jem are standing in the streetkeeping their distance from the burning house, someone wraps a towel around Scout. Shedoesnt even notice the towel until Attic us asks where she got it. They suspect the BooRadley gave it to her.A little after that Scout and Jem find out that their father is defending Tom