The game that Scout, Jem, and Dill play during Chapter 4 of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird suggests that although ignorance abounds in children due to their inexperience in life, adults perpetuate this ignorance through their discourse and actions. When Atticus catches the children playing the game and asks them about it, Scout explains that “Jem’s evasion” of the question told her the game “was a secret” (Lee 40). Jem’s avoidance of a straight answer and his desire to keep it a secret from the most unprejudiced person in the novel suggests he knows he is at fault for playing the game and that, if Atticus knew the true nature of it, he would be displeased with the children; not only is the game wrong because of inaccuracy, but it is also