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Who Is Jem Finch Family In To Kill A Mockingbird
In part one of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout the youngest daughter to Atticus Finch and sister to Jem finch is narrating. She tells the tale of how she starts school and how her and Jem become friends with a neighborhood boy named Dill who lives with his aunt next door every summer. Scout and Jem’s father Atticus is a well-off lawyer who is doing well compared to the rest of the maycomb society. The Fitch Family also has a maid/cook who helps take care of the house and raise the children. Once Scout, Dill, and Jem start becoming friends Scout starts telling Dill the story of boo Radley. Boo Radley got in trouble with the law when he was younger so his father forbade him to leave the house, no one heard of anything until he supposedly stabbed …show more content…
Later he goes back to collect his torn pants to find that they've been detangled and sewn back together. Later in the year when the winter was unbearably cold there was a fire at one of the neighboring houses. All the residents of the neighborhood watched as the firemen tried to set it out eventually Scout comments how cold she was and soon notices that a blanket has been wrapped around her. Scout's family informs her that Boo Radley was the one one who wrapped it around her. Eventually the excitement died down and Scout and Jem decided to start exploring the central maycomb area. The problem was that Mrs. Dubose taughted them every time they passed her house. Eventually she got on Jem’s nerves and he snapped, cutting up her garden. Mrs. Dubose’s daughter calls Atticus and tells him what Jem did. Atticus tells Jem to go back to her house and apologize. She eventually sentences him to read to her for an hour or so. Soon, when she passes away she learns that she had a terrible morphine addiction and that her behaviors were rational giving her circumstances. Her final farewell was a gift to Jem. Which was one of the flowers he destroyed, this was obviously incredibly symbolic. Thus ending the

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