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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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