To Kill A Mockingbird Chp 26
To Kill A Mockingbird
Chapter 26 Summary
School starts – third grade for Scout and seventh for Jem – so once again they’re passing the Radley Place every day; though it’s not as frightening as it used to be, it’s still dreary-looking.
Jem is excited about his place on the football team, even though they won’t let him do much beyond carrying buckets.
Scout feels a little sorry for all the annoyance they must have caused in the old days trying to get Boo to show his face.
But Scout still remembers the gifts he left for them in the tree, and keeps an eye out for him each time she goes by the house.
Scout mentions to Atticus that she’d still like to set eyes on Boo Radley sometime, and he tells her to cut it out, and mentions the time they almost got shot in the Radley yard – the first time he’s let on that he knows what really happened that night, which seems so long ago to Scout now.
Boo Radley seems positively tame after the events of the last year; Scout’s still worried about the blowback from the Robinson case, but Atticus thinks that time will bring forgetfulness.
Forgetfulness is long in coming, however, and Jem and Scout are practicing their gentleman and lady skills in the schoolyard, where most of their classmates share their parents’ prejudices.
Scout wonders why if everyone disagrees with Atticus they still re-elected him to represent them in the state government, and concludes that people are just plain weird.
Every week, Scout’s class has a Current Events assignment: kids are supposed to report on an article from a newspaper, except the poor kids don’t have access to newspapers, except one they call The Grit Paper which the teacher doesn’t deem acceptable for the assignment.
Even the town kids have problems with the assignment, though: one reports on an advertisement instead of an article, while another starts out calling Hitler “Old Adolf.”
Miss Gates, the teacher, seizes on the moment to teach her about the difference between democracy and
Chapter 26 Summary
School starts – third grade for Scout and seventh for Jem – so once again they’re passing the Radley Place every day; though it’s not as frightening as it used to be, it’s still dreary-looking.
Jem is excited about his place on the football team, even though they won’t let him do much beyond carrying buckets.
Scout feels a little sorry for all the annoyance they must have caused in the old days trying to get Boo to show his face.
But Scout still remembers the gifts he left for them in the tree, and keeps an eye out for him each time she goes by the house.
Scout mentions to Atticus that she’d still like to set eyes on Boo Radley sometime, and he tells her to cut it out, and mentions the time they almost got shot in the Radley yard – the first time he’s let on that he knows what really happened that night, which seems so long ago to Scout now.
Boo Radley seems positively tame after the events of the last year; Scout’s still worried about the blowback from the Robinson case, but Atticus thinks that time will bring forgetfulness.
Forgetfulness is long in coming, however, and Jem and Scout are practicing their gentleman and lady skills in the schoolyard, where most of their classmates share their parents’ prejudices.
Scout wonders why if everyone disagrees with Atticus they still re-elected him to represent them in the state government, and concludes that people are just plain weird.
Every week, Scout’s class has a Current Events assignment: kids are supposed to report on an article from a newspaper, except the poor kids don’t have access to newspapers, except one they call The Grit Paper which the teacher doesn’t deem acceptable for the assignment.
Even the town kids have problems with the assignment, though: one reports on an advertisement instead of an article, while another starts out calling Hitler “Old Adolf.”
Miss Gates, the teacher, seizes on the moment to teach her about the difference between democracy and