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I am reading to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee I am on page 117. This book is so far about. Scout, Jem, and Dill were rolling each other in the tire and landed on Boo Radley's house. Scout, Jem, and Dill tried to give Boo a note with a fishing rod and it didn't work out. Summer was almost over and Jem, Dill, and Scout went to try to sneak into Boo Radley's house. Nathan Radley shoots a gun to scary the kids away. Jem loses his pants going under the fence running from the Radley house. In the middle of night he goes and see if his pants are still there. Oh, they were there, they laid folded on the fence. Scout finds this hole with gum and Indian head pennies in the Radley tree. Later Scout and Jem find soap carving that looked like them. The …show more content…

Who is planting the items in the tree? I think it's Boo Radley planting the items in the tree. He laughed at Scout and Jem when she crashed the tire into the Radley's house. He can't go or do anything else so he started putting items in the tree and Boo thought that someone would take it. Nathan cemented the tree hole because he didn't want Boo to keep putting items in the tree. I also think it's Miss Maudie. She plants the items to make it look like it was Boo Radley. She tells Scout and Jem good things about Boo. Miss Maudie is also old and bored and she does not know what to do except to garden. Who are the items meant for. I think the items are meant for Jem, Scout and Dill. Whoever is placing the item made the soap figures look like Scout and Jem. The items Jem, Scout and Dill find are items that would attract them. Scout and Jem are very adventures so they would find pretty much anything. Boos trying to show Jem, Scout, and Dill that he's not this big scary guy. I also think it's meant for no one its Nathan Radley's hole. Scout and Jem were taking his special items. That's why he cemented the tree hole. He lied to Jem and Scout and told them that the tree was dying. As you can see I have two question about who is planting the items? And who are the items meant

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Within chapter one, Lee included plenty of foreshadowing for the other chapters. For one, Scout describes the story of Boo Radley heavily, which was a major part of Scout, Jem, and Dill’s childhood. The insight Scout provides to Boo characterizes him as a fearful villain, who “dined on raw squirrels and any cats he couldn’t catch.” (14) However, this later proves to be

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Journal #5 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 376. This book is about a girl named Scout who lives with brother Jem, aunt Alexandra, and father Atticus. The kids have learned a lot from the experiences with people in the town like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. When Tom died it affects the whole town for a little bit. When the kids were attacked by Bob Ewell, but Boo Radley came to save them.

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To further develop Jem’s character, Lee wrote a scene with Dill, a friend whom the Finch children played with in the summer time every year. Dill and the Finch children were always daring each other to complete certain tasks, most resulted in dangerous outcomes. One of the dares Jem was given was to touch the Radley house. The Radley house was known in the neighborhood as a scary, mysterious residence in which the individuals, who resided there, rarely showed their faces in public. Two men lived in the Radley House, one named Nathan who came out everyday to go to work, and one named Arthur, also known as “Boo.”

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Reese Balaski Due Date: Tuesday 6th Journal 2 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am currently on page 42. This book is about a girl named Scout and her family living in Maycomb, Alabama. In this journal, I will proceed to predict and evaluate the plot points of the book so far. One of the major topics in the story so far is Scout and her brother Jem being able to see their neighbor Boo Radley.

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Day after day of walking by the tree in Boo’s front yard after school, Jem and Scout are most excited to see what treasuries were thoughtfully placed inside the knothole by Boo. Boo is trying to create a special relationship with the kids by showing how much he cares for them. When Scout looks back at the experiences her and Jem had with the tree she states, “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor.

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In the beginning of the book Scout Jem and Dill are all playing this made up game that they created around the Radley family called “Boo Radley '' since they thought they were different from everyone else. This game leads them to them almost

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It was one of the coldest winter nights. Jem and scout were outside in front of the Radley house watching while their father and everyone help put the fire out. They were only in their pajamas and not dressed for the weather. Once the fire went out, Jem and Scout headed back inside and Jem asked Scout where she got that blanket wrapped around her. Well, where did she get that blanket?

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In Chapter 4 of To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout find several things in the knot-hole of the old oak tree on the Radley house. The children are very curious about who left these things there. Later in the book they realize that it is Boo Radley is leaving the gifts. He is trying to show them his affection for them. Throughout the novel Jem and scout find 2 sticks of gum, a pack of gum, 2 old Indian head coins, gray twine, soap figures carved to like Jem and Scout, old spelling bee medals and an old watch on a chain and an aluminum knife.

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This explains how Boo had to get out of his comfort zone of staying in his house to do the heroic service of protecting Scout and Jem, risking the unveiling of his shy ways to the Maycomb community. After both children are safe and Atticus thanks Boo for his children, Scout takes him by the hand and leads him back to his house. As he releases Scout’s hand and shuts the door, never to be seen again, Scout describes him, stating that “He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives.”. (320) This illustrates how Boo Radley had acted as a guardian angel for the children; socializing with them but also defending them when necessary. Boo demonstrates courage when he chooses to protect the Finch children; resulting in having to murder someone and risk exposure after being a recluse for many

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However, Scout believes that they were left in the tree for them specifically. As Scout meets Boo in the flesh after what he does to save her from Mr. Ewell, she begins to see Boo by his heroic actions rather than the rumors. Boo finally has a friend who sees him as something other than a

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Scout matures through the novel, from her interactions with Boo Radley such as when Boo gives Jem and Scout some gifts by putting them in the knothole of

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The heat was devastating and many people decided to not go outside. Jem and I, however, ignored Atticus ' warnings about the heat, and left to go to see Dill. We passed by the Radley house, no longer afraid of Boo, after all, he had saved our lives. I could still clearly remembering the events of that day, but when I brought up the topic with Jem, he would ignore me, and change the subject. “Jem?”

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Then, Miss Maudie’s house caught on fire in the middle of a cold night, causing the whole neighborhood to wake up and go outside to see what was happening. Jem and Scout were standing in front of the Radley house, watching the fire, when somebody came and put a blanket over Scout’s shoulders. At the time, neither Jem nor Scout noticed this happen, but later they realized it had to have been Boo. Later on, after the Halloween play at the school, the Finch children were walking home in the dark when they were attacked by Bob Ewell. Jem and Scout could have been killed, but again, Boo came out at just the right moment and saved them.

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