Too kill a mocking bird

To Kill a Mockingbird: Chapters 1-8
Chapter 1 #1 A) “tired old town” B) “Maycomb county had nothing to fear but fear itself.” C) “nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.”
#2 starts during the 1930s in the summer.
#3 we know for certain about Boo that when he was a boy, he got in trouble with the law and as punishment, his dad wouldn’t let him outside the house at all. We also know that fifteen years after Boo got in trouble with the law, he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. People thought he was crazy but Mr. Radley did not want to send him to an asylum. After Mr. Radley died, Boo’s brother, Nathan, came to live with Boo. However, even with Boo’s dad dead, Boo continued to not leave his house.
#4 I believe that Boo is so fascinating to the children because he is so mysterious. The children have a lot of questions about him, like, is he a monster, dose he eat rodents and cats he catches or is he nice but just shy. I also think Boo is so fascinating to the children because he is “different” or so people say, and they find this interesting.
Chapter 2 #1 Scouts three mistakes on her first day of school were first, when Miss Caroline, the teacher asked her if she knew what the alphabet was, she read the letters and everything else she asked her to read. Then Miss Caroline caught scout writing a letter to her friend. These things frustrated Miss Caroline because she was the one that was supposed to teach the children to read and write in her own way. Her third mistake was when scout tried to explain to the teacher why Walter Cunningham had no lunch. She said “you’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline”, and this probably embarrassed her.
#2 the professional people in Maycomb were poor at this time because the great depression was going on at the time. The result of this was that people did not have a lot of money and could not afford to pay for professional services. People would either pay professionals in food or go without the professionals service resulting in the professionals getting less business and therefore less money.
#3 the WPA is the workers progress Administration. The WPA initiated many projects in the city for the public such as building roads, buildings etcetera. It was used in the great depression to help the unemployed get money. Mr. Cunningham won’t work for the WPA because he doesn’t want to give up his farmland even if it meant not being able to feed his family. He also does not want to accept things without working for it.
Chapter 3 #1 Calpurnia and Atticus both feel that even though you may be more educated and have more money than other people, we are all equal. They also say that we have to treat all people with respect especially if they are guests in your home.
#2 Even though, the Ewells and the Cunningham’s are both poor families, they are very different in many ways. Walter Cunningham could not afford shoes for school but was clean and wore a clean shirt and health mended overalls, which shows a sense of pride in appearance. Burris Ewell was filthy and had cooties and didn’t even care what he didn’t look like. The Cunningham’s didn’t take charity or anything they could not pay back, even though they were poor they had pride. Whereas the Ewells were wild, mean and took whatever they could get. I think the Ewells were like this because of the fact that they had no mother and their father was a crazy drunk.
#3 Scout begins to realize that her teacher was not really being mean to her, she just wasn’t use to how things worked in Maycomb. Miss Caroline just needed some time to get to know all the children and their families, and what they were like.
#4 Atticus says that the law bends for the Ewells because the Ewells have lived that way for three generations and they are not going to change. There was no point in forcing the lads to go to school and then let their father hunt out of season so his children wouldn’t starve. The law is more ridged for the “common folk” because they know better.
#5 Atticus suggests that if Scout goes to school, they will still continue to read every single night as they always do, even though the teacher told her she was not allowed to read with her dad any more.
Chap 4 #1 Scout criticizes the school she is attending because she is very smart and the school dose not challenge her. This leaves her very bored and feeling like she is missing out on something.
#2 I think the gum and pennies are coming from Boo Radley because I think Boo watches the children from his house. He is probably bored because he’s been inside for so long and maybe Boo isn’t really a monster, he might be very nice but just shy.
#3 Scout wants to quit the “Radley Game” because she thinks Atticus knows that they are playing it and he doesn’t approve. Also the day that Scout was rolling in the tire and she hit the Radley house and fell out, she heard someone laughing inside the house.
Chap 5 #1 Miss Maudies conversations with scout suggest that Miss Maudie is a very cheerful, nice and enjoyable person and neighbor. Miss Maudie lives across the street from the Finches. She treats every one as equals and she is always in cheery mood.
Chap 6 #1 the reasons they chose that particular time and night to peek into the Radley window is on page 69: "Because nobody could see them at night, because Atticus would be so deep in a book he wouldn't hear the Kingdom coming, because if Boo Radley killed them they'd miss school instead of vacation, and because it was easier to see inside a dark house in the dark than in the daytime . . ."
#2 Jem says to Scout... "Scout I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home I declare to the lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!" Then scout says she had no option to not go with them now. I think this statement by Jem made her decide to go with them because Jem basically called Scout a girly coward and Scout has a lot of pride and courage so she decides to suck it up and go with along with the plan.
#3 the fact that Jem not only wanted to retrieve his pants and get out of the Radley yard but also wanted to keep on good terms with his father tells me that Jem really likes his father. Jem does not want to upset his father, probably because Atticus is under a great deal of pressure and stress from the situation he is in. If Jem had told Atticus what they did and what happened, it would only make his father angry, which he did not want to do.
Chap 7 #1 When Jem goes back to get his pants at the Radley house he finds them fixed. He expected to find the pants where he left them, on the ground, but instead finds them folded over the fence. It says whoever mended them was most likely a man because it was not done extremely well. This incident frightens Jem because this means someone had seen Jem leave and knew that Jem would be back to retrieve his Pants. This leads Jem to believe that Boo has been spying on him.
#2 The significance of the gifts in the tree are that they represent Boos first connection with the children. Boo wanted to be friends with the children but he wasn’t used to communicating with people because he has been inside for so long and is so shy. Instead of talking to the children, he left them gifts as a way of communicating.
#3 Mr.Nathan Radley fills the hole in the tree with cement because he knows that Boo is the one putting the gifts in the tree for Jem and scout to find. Mr. Radley fills the hole in the tree so that Boo can no longer put gifts in the tree for the children. He tells the children that the tree was sick as an excuse. Jem is sad and cries when Mr. Radley fills the hole in the tree with cement because that was the only way that Jem could communicate with Boo. I think Jem was starting to like Boo and the gifts he was leaving for him and Mr. Radley took it all away.
Chap8 #1 Jem and Scout made the snowman such an obvious replica of Mr. Avery mostly because they did not like Mr. Avery and they wanted to make fun of him. Mr. Avery earlier shund the children blaming them for the snow so they were most likely mad at him for that. Another reason they decided to make the snowman look like Mr. Avery was because once they started to make the snowman they realized that it looked a little bit like him and decided to make it look exactly like him.
#2 Atticus decide to keep the blanket incident a secret because Atticus respects Boo Radley's privacy. He knows Boo is the one who did it and reveals it to the children but dose not want other people to find out because he doesn’t want people bombarding Boo because he finely came outside. Atticus knows telling people about what Boo did would be disrespectful since Boo only did a good thing for his child.
#3 After her house is destroyed, Miss Maudie does not mourn over the loss. She says the things that she lost were just objects. She was very thankful that no people were hurt. She was more concerned with the health and well being of others than the stuff she lost. This tells me about her character that she is extremely nice and not selfish. She was very happy that people were there to comfort her.