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To kill a mockingbird in set in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. It is set in the middle of the Great Depression in the 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crashed in October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Scout Finch is a six-year-old girl who lives with her older brother Jem and her widowed father Atticus. Atticus is a lawyer and works hard enough to support his family, but he works long hours. They have a black cook, Calpurnia and she helps to raise the kids. Scout and Jem spend most of their days playing. A boy younger then Scout, Dill spend his summer with his aunt, who lives next to the finches The three children, Scout, Dill and Jem quickly became friends because they spent a lot of time together. They became curious about the nearby house. There lived a man Nathan Radley and his brother Boo Radley. The children were interested and scared of Boo Radley. The children dare Jem to run and touch the house and Scout is sure that she saw someone peeping through the window. The summer ends and Dill return to his hometown. Scout starts with school and she does not …show more content…

The highlight of Jem and Scout's year is when they occasionally find presents in the eyehole of the tree next to the Radley house. Summer is back and Dill returns. The children grow more excited to sneak to the Radley property. Nathan Radley sees them and thinks they're thieves. They run away and Jem's pants get stuck in the fence. He leaves them behind. Later the night he returns to get them back and find them mended and folded. Scout and Jem continue to find gifts in the tree until one-day Nathan Radley cements the hole completely. Later, Miss Maudie Atkinson's house caught fire and burned down. While this is happening, the Finch's observe and someone places a blanket around Scout's

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They attempt to get him out of his house by leaving notes around his house. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem’s father who is a widower after his wife died. Atticus is a lawyer and defending a black man named Tom Robinson who is accused of raping a 19-year-old girl named Mayella. Atticus tried to convince the jury that Bob Ewell (Mayella’s father) beat her because Mayella’s

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From Scout’s narration, readers can tell Dill is very curious and imaginative, when Scout describes him to be inquisitive in the Radleys; “The more we told Dill about the Radleys, the more he wanted to know, the longer he would stand hugging the light-pole on the corner, the more he would wonder.” (13) Lee introduces Dill as a creative and intelligent child, who is still mostly innocent to the world. Jem is also a symbol of innocence in chapter one. When Jem blindly believes Stephanie Crawfords exaggerations of Boo Radley, it shows how naive and trusting he is, and that he hasn’t been epxosed to much lies in the world. Jem is also prideful, which shows when he finally decied to touch the Radley house only when Scout “sneered at him.”

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After his adventures at the Radley house Jem is in a bad mood for a week, and then the children go back to school. Scout starts second grade which is apparently just as bad as first grade and Jem tells Scout that he was freaked out after retrieving his pants from the Radley home because they were mended badly and were sitting on top of the fence instead of being where he had left them. A few days later on their way home Jem and Scout see a ball of twine in a knothole of a tree on the Radley proper, however they leave it there thinking that the knothole may be someone 's secret hiding place. When it is still there a few days later they decide it is okay to take the twine and consequently several other things left inside the tree. Over the next

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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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The hole in the tree that Jem and Scout had found various things in was covered up by Mr. Nathan Radley, the children saw him cement the tree in the movie, but did not in the book. The book portrays Jem going back later in the night to claim his pants that he had lost earlier in the day when he tried to get away from the Radley lot. The movie however shows that Jem goes back right after he lost them. Mr. Radley comes out to scare the children away with

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Awful politicians can do great things that benefit millions of people. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or nation origin, in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. As a Southern Democrat this was in direct opposition to the wishes of his constituents. He played the political game until he was able to break free of his state obligation when he was able to do what he truly thought was right.

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“I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said,” Scout discovered In the book, To Kill a Mocking Bird. However, Jem, Scout, and Dill lived in Maycomb which provided zero entertainment. Most agree the children spent the summer in boredom, but some believe they should have respected their father Atticus’ wishes regardless. Others argue “The Boo Radley Game” resulted in innocent fun.

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The children hear from Mrs. Stephanie Crawford about her encounter with Boo Radley, claiming that she saw him look through the window at her one night, and stories like that cause Scout, Jem, and Dill to fear Boo. After listening to the Tom Robinson case and hearing about his unfortunate death, Scout and Jem begin to comprehend why Boo never comes out of his house. Jem explains to Scout, “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time . . . it’s because he wants to stay inside” (259).

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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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Scout later shares that she and her brother Jem awaken to see stovewood, hickory nuts, smilax, and holly, all left by Mr. Cunningham as a token of his appreciation to Atticus. When Mr. Walter Cunningham’s son, Walter is invited over to the Finches for lunch, Atticus plays the role of an outstanding host. Knowing that Scout is one of young Walter’s bullies at school, he makes sure that Scout doesn’t pick on the poor boy and make him feel any sort of

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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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Rumors embraced Jem, Scout and Dill as they acted out stories of Boo stabbing his father with scissors and imitated his sad, psychotic life. When the kids started to mature they received a sense of reality in Maycomb and how the citizens aren’t as innocent as they appear. While Scout and Jem began to realized this Jem stated, “...I think i'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed up in the house all this time … it’s because he wants to stay inside.” (Lee, page 304) When miss Maudie's house caught fire on the cold night, a blanket appeared over Jem and Scout while they sat in front of the Radley house. They later found out that Boo was the one who had placed it there.

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Jem and Scout begin to talk to Dill about the neighborhood, especially the Radley house. The Radley 's are a very unusual family. If anything bad or unexpected happened, mostly everybody blamed it on the Radley house. Dill began to investigate in this situation. Scout said, " The more we told Dill about the Radley 's the more he wanted to know.

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