To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Summaries 1-14

Chapter 1: * Ancestors came here by river * Each generation after the first of Simon lived and grew cotton with black slaves until the father Atticus decided to study law * Atticus invested his money in his brother john who studied law when it wasn’t worth growing cotton * Extremely hot weather is what the girl first remembers of the town * Lived on the main street in town Atticus, jem, the girl and the cook Calpurnia (coloured woman) * The girl’s mother died when she was 2 from a heart attack * They meet dill who was spending his summer with his aunt miss Rachael * Dill gained instant respect when he said he’d seen the movie Dracula * Dill wanted to see boo radley who lived in the radley place * Boo radley and the radley place deemed as bad- Negros, say he committed many nocturnal crimes, couldn’t eat the fruit or nuts that fell from his trees, and if a ball went it to his backyard it was deemed as lost, neighbours never called them on a Sunday to come over as all their doors and windows were shut * Mr Radleys boy became involved in the Cunningham’s from old serum a “gang”. Got in trouble and went to court, where he was rather than punished Mr radley made sure he wouldn’t get into trouble again and wasn’t seen for 15 years * Boo radley later stabbed Mr radley and was put in a form of solitary confinement * Mr radley then died later on and his eldest son took over Mr radleys job of overseeing boo radley * Dill dared jem to get Mr boo out of his house and not wanting to be cowardly after taunting by dill he did it. * Rather than getting him out dill compensated and said just to touch the house as jem was scared and jem did it not wanting to be cowardly
Chapter 2: * The girl starts school where on the first day jem accompanies her but tells her to leave him alone during school * The girls extremely smart and can read well beyond her years and embarrasses the teacher * She can also write fluently when she