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    Dill came up every summer. Jem‚ Scout and Dill spent most of the summer trying to learn more about the Radley’s. Boo Radley never comes out of his home and the children are determined to try and get him out. Dill dares Jem to touch the porch. Jem finally gives in and when he touches the porch Scout sees movement in the house. When September comes Dill goes back to Meridian‚ and Scout begins to look forward to starting first grade. Jem tries to warn his sister that school and home are two completely

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    To begin with in chapter 8 it talks about a boy named Walter he starts school at Stuyvesant high school but the only problem was a all boys school and it was strange to him in some ways but he could deal with it. ’’But in the book it was an all boys school’’ In chapter nine Walter talks about trying harder in school with his grades. On page 132 Walter said ’’I resolved to do better the next year. ’’ However Walter had to get a job that involved a pushing hand truck. Walter saved money up from his

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Study guide answers Chapters 1-3 1. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and the father of Jean Louise (Scout) and Jem Finch. Scout Finch is the narrator of the story. Jem is the brother of Jean Louise. Maycomb is the city and county where the story takes place. Calpurnia is the maid and nanny of the Finch kids. Dill is the kid that comes to Maycomb every summer and plays with the Finches. The Radley place it the house where the Radleys live. Stephanie Crawford knows everything about

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    To Kill A Mockingbird‚ opens with a quaint look on of the hometown of the main protagonist‚ Scout‚ and his family and friends. Scout is a six year-old girl‚ she and her brother‚ Jem‚ live with her father‚ Atticus. Scout has two close friends‚ Calpurnia‚ being a cook‚ and a short naive boy named‚ Dill; of whom Jem and Scout met during one summer. Scout reveals through first person narrative of some social taboo’s in‚ Maycomb; Scout’s residing township: Doors or windows left closed or ajar

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    Chapter 1 In this chapter the Finch family is introduced by Scout. Simon Finch established a homestead‚ ‘Finch’s Landing’‚ on the banks of the Alabama River. Both of his sons ended up leaving the landing as‚ Atticus‚ studied law; the other had studied medicine. Their sister Alexandra stayed and took care of the landing with her husband. Atticus moves to Maycomb‚ Alabama where he raises his two children‚ Scout and Jem. These children have always been fascinated by the Radley house because of the

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    SETTING To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a made-up town called Maycomb County. Maycomb is a small town that is placed in southern Alabama and is isolated pretty well in the middle of nowhere. Not a lot of people move in and not a lot of people move out of town. The date in which To Kill a Mockingbird is somewhere in the early to middle 1930s. This is in the midst of the Great Depression and is nearly 70 years since the abolishment of slavery. PLOT Atticus Finch‚ along with the help of

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    Chapter 1: #1 a) “Tired old town” (pg. 5) b) “Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing fear but fear itself” (pg. 6) c) “nothing to buy and no money to buy with it” (pg. 6) d) “nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County” (pg. 10) #2 The setting of the story take place in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ during the 1930’s. #3 Scout was telling the story about Boo Radley‚ she said Radley was locked up in a basement as a teenager for once getting in trouble

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Questions Chapters 1-3 1. Dill‚ Jem‚ Simon Finch‚ Atticus‚ John Hale Finch‚ Calpurnia‚ Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose‚ Mr. Radley‚ Boo Radley‚ Mrs. Radley‚ Mr. Conner‚ Miss Stephanie Crawford‚ Nathan Radley‚ and Scout are introduced in the first chapter. 2. This book is set in the Great Depression (1929-1939). Harper Lee used the Scottsboro Case (1931) as the spark to write the trial sequences in the novel. 3. Scout narrates in the first person‚ telling what she saw

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    SUMMARY: Tom Jones receives two letters in this chapter. The first one is from Lady Bellaston. She tells him she should despise him for his behavior at her house and for loving a country girl. She also warns him that she can hate as passionately as she can love. While Mr Jones was thinking how to reply to the letter‚ Lady Bellaston walks in with her dress in disarray. She asks if he has betrayed her‚ and he promises her on his knees that he has not. Suddenly Partridge announces Mrs. Honour’s arrival

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    the items inside the knothole in the Radley’s place. This scene is very important to me because it shows us how Boo Radley really is. We see him as someone who is unliked from people. They make him seem as someone who is unknown and scary. In this chapter‚ they make us see another side of Boo Radley we never would have seen. It starts off with Jem and Scout getting gifts from an unknown person in a knothole that is in a tree near the Radley’s place. At the end‚ we infer that it was probably Boo Radley

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