To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee :: To Kill a Mockingbird Essays

To Kill A MockingbirdWhen Sctaboo is cardinal years old she meets Dill who is visiting his aunt there in Maycomb for the summer. Sc reveal and her brother Jem play with Dill and try to figure out ways to catch a glimpse of their weird neighbor hoot Radley. raspberry bush is mysterious to them because he always stays in the fireside and they have never seen him before.After the summer is over, school is about to kickoff and Dill goes covert home toMississippi. This is Scouts first year of school and on her first mean solar day she gets into trouble with the teacher because she already knows how to read and write, and gets into a fight with Walter Cunningham. While walking home from school sensation day Scout finds a stick of gum in a ambuscade in a tree by the Radleys yard. Later on Scout and Jem find more gifts in the tree, but then curtly Mr. Radley fills the hole with cement and the gifts stop.After school is over Dill comes back to Maycomb. Scout, Jem, and Dill co ntinueto try to get Boo to come out of the bear, but with no luck. Then they decide that onDills last night in Maycomb they would crawl down the stairs the fence in the back yard of theRadley place and take a peek into one of the windows. This plan backfires when Mr.Radley comes out with a shot gun and fires into the air. While caterpillar tread away from Mr.Radley Jem gets his pants caught while trying to get back under the fence and has to slipout of them to get away. Later that night he goes back for his pants and find them folded over the fence and roughly mended.That adjacent winter Maycomb had its first bump since 1885. At first Scout vox populi that the earth was ending, she had never seen snow before. Scout and Jem madea snow man that looked exactly like Mr. Avery. During that cold spell Mrs. Radley dies,and Miss Maudies house burns down. While Scout and Jem are standing in the passagekeeping their distance from the burning house, someone wraps a towel virtual ly Scout. Shedoesnt even notice the towel until Atticus asks where she got it. They suspect the BooRadley gave it to her.A little after that Scout and Jem find out that their catch is defending Tom