To Kill a Mockingbird Summaries 1-10
Chapter 1 TKAM
· The chapter opens with the introduction of the narrator, Scout Finch, her older brother Jem, and their friend and neighbor, Dill
· her brother Jem breaking his arm.
· She launches into a brief family history, beginning with her grandfather, Simon Finch.
· Scout tells of her days living on the main street with Atticus and Jem, along with cook, Calpurnia, Their mother passed away when Scout was two, and she hardly remembers her.
· Scout then recalls meeting Dill, a seven-year-old boy from Mississippi who lives next door to the Finch’s place, who spends every summer in Maycomb with his aunt.
· The Radley house is described as broken and decaying. A “baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball no questions asked.” Mr. Radley, who lives in the house with his wife and two sons, keeps the family locked up in the house; they do not attend church, go to the market or communicate with neighbors.
· Dill dares Jem to run up and touch the Radley residence, and after much deliberation, Jem sprints over and slaps the side of the house, then sprints away.
Chapter 2 TKAM
· Dill leaves to return to Meridian in early September, and Scout realizes that she will be starting school in a week. This will be her first time ever attending school, after spending years “looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children.
· Jem walks Scout to school and shows her around her classroom, but tells her to leave him alone during school hours.
· Scout’s teacher, Miss Caroline, a young “peppermint-scented” idealist.
· Miss Caroline calls on Scout to say the alphabet, and after Scout successfully reads it aloud, Miss Caroline tells her to “tell her father not to teach her anymore because it will interfere with her reading." During recess, Scout tells Jem about what happened in class, and Jem convinces Scout that Miss Caroline uses a new way of “college” teaching.
· Miss Caroline then asks all of her students to put their lunches on their desks, and when one boy,
· The chapter opens with the introduction of the narrator, Scout Finch, her older brother Jem, and their friend and neighbor, Dill
· her brother Jem breaking his arm.
· She launches into a brief family history, beginning with her grandfather, Simon Finch.
· Scout tells of her days living on the main street with Atticus and Jem, along with cook, Calpurnia, Their mother passed away when Scout was two, and she hardly remembers her.
· Scout then recalls meeting Dill, a seven-year-old boy from Mississippi who lives next door to the Finch’s place, who spends every summer in Maycomb with his aunt.
· The Radley house is described as broken and decaying. A “baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball no questions asked.” Mr. Radley, who lives in the house with his wife and two sons, keeps the family locked up in the house; they do not attend church, go to the market or communicate with neighbors.
· Dill dares Jem to run up and touch the Radley residence, and after much deliberation, Jem sprints over and slaps the side of the house, then sprints away.
Chapter 2 TKAM
· Dill leaves to return to Meridian in early September, and Scout realizes that she will be starting school in a week. This will be her first time ever attending school, after spending years “looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children.
· Jem walks Scout to school and shows her around her classroom, but tells her to leave him alone during school hours.
· Scout’s teacher, Miss Caroline, a young “peppermint-scented” idealist.
· Miss Caroline calls on Scout to say the alphabet, and after Scout successfully reads it aloud, Miss Caroline tells her to “tell her father not to teach her anymore because it will interfere with her reading." During recess, Scout tells Jem about what happened in class, and Jem convinces Scout that Miss Caroline uses a new way of “college” teaching.
· Miss Caroline then asks all of her students to put their lunches on their desks, and when one boy,