To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1 Title Scouting

To Kill A Mockingbird

Chapter 1 • Title: Scouting the story • Summary: meet the Finch family (Scout, Jem, Atticus), mother died when Scout was two. Maycomb is introduced. Dill comes to visit and tells the story of Boo Radley. • Quote: “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm broken at the elbow” (1) • Foreshadowing…‘got’

Chapter 2 • Title: Scout vs. Miss Caroline • Summary: Dill leaves Maycomb that September; Scout goes to school but does not like her teacher, Miss Caroline (she makes her feel guilty about being educated). Miss Caroline offers to buy Walter Cunningham lunch, but he refuses. Scout explains that they never take anything they cannot repay. • Quote: “The Cunninghams never took anything they can’t pay back…They never took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have” (26).

Chapter 3 • Title: Homeschooled? • Summary: Scout is angry with Walter for getting her in trouble. Jem comes and stops his sister and invites Walter to their house for lunch. As Walter is talking to Atticus, Scout criticizes the way he eats but is soon scolded by Calpurnia. The next day, the teacher is scared of the bugs in Burris Ewell’s hair. Burris barely goes to school, only to avoid trouble with the law. After school, Atticus asks Scout what’s wrong and she says she wants him to teach her. Although he says that it is illegal, he promises to read to her each night if she keeps quiet. • Quote: “If the remainder of the school year were as fraught with drama as the first day, perhaps it would be mildly entertaining, but the prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away” (Lee 37).

Chapter 4 • Title: Wrigley’s Double-Mint • Summary: Chapter 4 begins with Scout glumly describing her school days. One day as she was walking home from school she found mint gum in the branches of a tree on the Radley lot. Scout ends up chewing the gum and was later harshly scolded by Jem and ordered to wash her mouth out. Days later Scout and Jem were walking by the Radleys and found a purple velvet box with two pennies in it at the same place Scout had found the gum. The two siblings debated over what to do with the money and finally agreed to keep them but ask their classmates if it belongs to them when school starts again. Dill returns to Maycomb and Jem pushes Scout down a hill to the Radley place in a tire, as a form of revenge for telling Dill not to believe what Jem said about Hot Steams. The tire landed within the Radley property and Jem reluctantly retrieved it. Jem, Dill, and Scout reenact the Radleys in little plays to entertain themselves. At the end of the chapter Scout explains how he never wanted to do the plays because he heard laughter coming from the Radley's place when he fell out of the tire. • Quote: “The first reason happened the day i rolled into the Radley front yard. . . I heard another sound, so low i could not have heard it from the side-walk. Someone inside the house was laughing” (54).

Chapter 5 • Title: Mystery of Boo Radley • Summary: Scout begins to feel left out because Jem and Dill become closer, so she starts spending time with Miss Maudie Atkinson, one of the neighbors. She tells Scout that Boo Radley is alive and he is a victim of a harsh father, she also said majority of the rumors about him aren’t true and he wasn’t crazy as a boy and is probably crazy now. Jem and Dill try giving a note to Boo Radley inviting him to get ice cream with them, they put it in a window, but Atticus catches them and tells them to stop tormenting him. • Quote: “Had it never occurred to us that the civil way to communicate with another being was by the front door instead of a side window? ” (65)

Chapter 6 • Title: Where are my pants • Summary: Jem, Dill and Scout sneak over to the Radley Place and try to look through the windows. They see the shadow of a man as they approach the house. He walks around and then leaves, but when they run someone fires a shotgun behind them. Jem has to leave his pants behind after they get caught under the fence. After the incident, The neighborhood gathers around the house. The children join in so that they don’t seem suspicious. They are told that Nathan Radley shot at a Negro in his yard. Atticus sees that Jem doesn’t have any pants and he asks where they are. Dill covers for him by saying he lost them in strip poker with matches instead of cards. (Jem gets his pants back). • Quote: “I admired my brother. Matches were dangerous, but cards were fatal” (73).

Chapter 7 • Title: The Hidey Hole • Summary: Jem told Scout about the night he lost his pants at the Radley place. His pants had been badly stitched up and left folded over the fence for him to retrieve. On their way home from school they found soap figurines and other presents in the tree by the Radley House. They wrote a letter to the benefactor thanking him, but before they could put the letter in the tree, the hole was filled with cement. • Quote: “When we went in the house I saw he had been crying; he face was dirty in the right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him. ” (Lee, 84).

Chapter 8 • Title: Fire and Ice • Summary: Snow in Maycomb County! Jem’s determination leads them to build a dirt-and-snow man. Later, Miss Maudie’s house burns down. Everyone rushes outside to help, and in the confusion, Scout didn’t notice Boo Radley sneak a blanket onto her. When Atticus asks about it, Scout is prompted to tell the whole story about the knot hole and the gifts. • Quote: “I looked down and found myself clutching a brown woolen blanket I was wearing around my shoulders, squaw-fashion”(95)

Chapter 9 Title: Uncle Jack Summary: Scout almost fights Cecil after he calls Atticus a slave lover because Atticus is defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Atticus can’t refuse out of his own self respect. Francis, Alexandra’s grandson, calls Atticus a slave lover so Scout beats him up. Francis snitches on Scout to Uncle Jack, but he spanks her without hearing her side of the story. Scout later tells Jack what Francis said and Jack becomes furious. Quote: “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be” (Lee, 90).

Chapter 10 • Title: The Shot • Summary: Scout says that her dad doesn’t do things that other men do, like going fishing or hunting, he prefers to read and be smart. One day though, Scout, Jem and Calpurnia see a dog and get really scared because they think that the dog is going to get them, so Calpurnia calls Atticus and tells him what is going on. Atticus drives back from work with the sheriff, then, the sheriff says that Atticus should shoot the dog because when he was younger he had a good shot, so Atticus grabs the gun and shoots the dog and the dog dies. Jem and Scout get amazed by their dad because it was a long distance shot and he got it. • Quote: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (119) •

Chapter 11 • Title: Mrs. Dubose Last Days • Summary: Jem and Scout used to walk by Mrs. Dubose’s house when going home, one day they said hello to her and from that day on, Mrs. Dubose would bother the kids calling Atticus a slave lover and saying he raised them wrong. Jem bought a baton for scout, and one day on the way home Jem got really mad and destroyed every single camellia Mrs. Dubose had. As a punishment she tells Jem he has to come to her house for a month and read to her. Everyday Mrs. Dubose would extend the period of time the kids were at her house. At the end of the chapter Atticus is called to Mrs. Dubose’s house, when he comes back he tells Jem that she died and that all she wanted for her last days was a distraction and that's why he had to read to her for more time. • Quote: “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand” (149)

Chapter 12 • Title: Cal’s Church • Summary: Scout continues to grow more distant with Jem as he starts growing up. Gill sends a note saying he won't be with them this summer because his wife got remarried. Atticus also has to leave on business. Calpurnia decides that she should take the two to her church, the kids go. Everybody that goes to the church is black and they all seem friendly except for one woman who gets upset at Cal for taking white people to their church. During the service Scout and Jem are confused with their style of singing hymns due to the fact that they don't use books. The reverend takes up a collection for the wife of Tom Robinson and would not let them leave until 10 dollars is collected. Back home Scout is confused why people won't hire Toms wife just because of what they say her husband did. • Quote: “Lula stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal? "(Lee 158).

Chapter 13 • Title: Here Comes the Wicked Witch of the West • Summary: Aunt Alexandra comes to Maycomb to help Atticus raise the kids, especially Scout, who she does not consider to be a proper lady. Scout talks about how Aunt Alexandra fits in with the town, as well as the town’s background and foundation. Scout also goes into great detail about a somewhat abstract concept of stereotypes, and how people have certain traits just because of their family lineage. Scout is then introduced to some cousin she does not know, and Jem tells an embarrassing story of a cousin he has heard of in front of Aunt Alexandra. Atticus is then pressured into telling the kids they need to start living up to the family name, but stops short after Scout starts crying. The chapter ends with Atticus trying to reassure the children but failing to do so. • Quote: “were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings, even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time. ” (175)

Chapter 14 • Title: Return of Dill • Summary: Scout brings up the idea of going over to Calpurnia’s house and Aunt Alexandra tells her she cannot go there. Scout gets upset and talks back to her Aunt, but Atticus does not like that and gets upset with Scout walks in on her Aunt and father fighting about Calpurnia and her role in the family. Scout and Jem get into a fist fight because Jem is trying to tell her what to do. Scout and Jem found Dill hiding under Scout’s bed. Jem told Atticus that Dill was there but Atticus let Dill stay the night with them. Dill explains to Scout that his mom and her new husband always were away and never wanted Dill around. Dill tells scout that they should get a baby together. • Quote: “Why do you reckon Boo Radley’s ever run off? ’ Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. ‘ Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to run off to…. ” (Lee 192)

Chapter 15 • Title: The Calm Before the Storm • Summary: It is decided that Dill can stay for the summer in Maycomb. Mr. Heck Tate arrives at Atticus’ home with a bunch of other men and asks for Atticus to join them outside. To Aunt Alexandra’s displeasure, Jem, Scout, and Dill observe the whole ordeal. The men say they do not want Tom to stay in the county jail right before the trial starts, and they start threatening Atticus promises them that he will make sure the truth is told about Tom. Scout and Jem are worried, but Atticus tells them that the men were his friends. That Sunday, Scout notices some men at church she hasn’t seen before. That evening, Atticus takes the car and a light bulb and extension cord and says he will be back late. The kids sneak out to see where he went, and end up at the county jail, where Atticus is sitting outside Tom’s cell. A group of men arrive and begin threatening Atticus. Scout runs to Atticus, and he tells Jem to take her and Dill home. A man grabs Jem and Scout kicks him. She notices Mr. Cunningham among the men, and begins asking him about Walter and his entailments, and he tells his men it is time to go. • Quote: “I assumed that Atticus was giving him hell for not going home, but I was wrong. As they passed under a streetlight, Atticus reached out and massaged Jem’s hair, his one gesture of affection” (155)

Chapter 16 • Title: The Beginning of the Trial • Summary: This chapter is the beginning of Tom Robinson's trial, People from all over the county go to the town. Everyone showed up in the courtroom, except Miss Maudie. After the lunch, Jem, Scout, and Dill wait for most of the crowd to enter the courtroom so Atticus will notice them in the back. The courtroom is so crowded that they finally sit with Reverend Sykes and the African American community that has come to support Tom. From these seats, they can see the whole courtroom. Judge Taylor, an old man who has a habit of eating, is in charge of the court. The trial started with Mr. Heck. • Quote: "That's what I thought, " said Jem, "but around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black”(216).

Chapter 17 • Title: Black Eyed Peas • It was Mr. Tate turn to be asked questions, one of the questions that they asked him was what had happened that night from his perspective. Tate said that on November 21 st bob took him to Ewell's house where Mr. Ewell's daughter was found badly beaten on the floor. when Tate asked her who had beaten her, she told him that it was Tom Robinson, he then ask her if tom Robinson had raped her, and she responded with a yes. after the incident had happened, Tate had gone to get Robinson and have Ewell's daughter identify him and arrest him. next, was Atticus's turn to ask the witness some question. one of the questions that he asked him was if Tate had called a doctor after what had happened to Ewell's daughter, but Tate said that he did not call a doctor. Atticus then asks Mr. Tate to describe the injuries on Ewell's daughter, Mr. Tate tells him that she had a black eye, Atticus asked what eye was the one that was bruised, Mr. Tate tells him that it was her right eye that was black. Atticus asks Mr. Tate to go into more detail with her injuries, Tate then tells him that on the right side of her face was also bruised and she had finger marks all over her throat. • “I seen that n***r(African American) yonder ruttin on my Mayella. Bob wells inflammatory remark put the courtroom in turmoil, and took Judge Taylor “fully five minutes” to gain control. ”

Chapter 18 • Title: • Summary: In this chapter, Mayella Ewell testifies against Tom Robinson, and she accuses him of beating her and raping her. Quote: "’Do you remember him beating you about the face? ' Atticus's voice had lost it's comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, detached professional voice. 'Do you remember him beating you about the face? ‘ 'I don't recollect if he hit me. I mean yes I do, he hit me'" (Lee 185).

Chapter 19 • Title: Robinson’s Testimony • Summary: Tom Robinson testifies to the court that he passed by the Ewell’s house on his way to work. Tom then talks about how he helped Mayella when she asked. When he entered her home he noticed that the children were gone and Mayella says that she saved up and sent them out for Ice cream. When Tom is helping Mayella, she hugs him and kisses the side of his face. After Mr. Ewell curses at Mayella for kissing Tom runs in fear because of Mr. Ewell. After Tom’s testament, Mr. Glimmer accuses Tom for if he had a different reason for helping Mayella, and Tom says the he felt bad for her. In doing so everyone got mad at him in feeling bad for her. Afterwards, Jem told Scout to take Dill out because he was crying. When they got outside they met Dolphus Raymond. • Quote: “Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her” (264).

Chapter 20 • Title: Guilty • Summary: Mr. Raymond offers Dill a drink. Scout is appalled but the children find out that its only Coca-Cola. Mr. Raymond lets the town believe that he is drunk so that he has an excuse to act the way he does. He doesn’t like people having expectations. Then Scout and Dill run back inside as Atticus makes his final statement. Atticus loosens his clothing, which the children have never seen him do, and he talks about the guilt that Mayella feels. Atticus is sweating now, which is rare and he brings up Thomas Jefferson's “Everyone is created equal” quote to defend Tom. As Atticus finishes, Calpurnia begins walking towards the judges stands. • Quote: “The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is"

Chapter 21 • Title: A Bad Trial • Summary: Jem and Scout watch in the colored balcony in the courthouse during Tom's case. Atticus makes them go home to eat supper since they have been there all day. They rush home and then go back to the balcony. At 11 pm, the jury has made a decision. Scout remembers that a jury will never look at a man they convicted and none of them looked at Tom was accused to be guilty by the jury. Everyone clears out of the courtroom and the colored balcony rises as a gesture of respect. • Quote: “You think they’ll acquit him that fast” asked Jem. Atticus opened his mouth to answer, but shut it and left us.

Chapter 22 • Title: Bob Ewell’s Revenge • Summary: In this chapter, Atticus has lost the trial, and the morning after, there a bunch of treats on the table. Atticus asks Calpurnia why, and she says that the colored community has sent these treats for him as thanks for the effort. Then Atticus leaves, and Scout, Jem, and Dill go to play outside. Then Dill’s Aunt Rachel comes outside and tells Dill to get in the backyard, because there’s trouble. Then Aunt Alexandra comes outside, and Stephanie Crawford tells them that Bob Ewell stopped Atticus outside the post office, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life. • Quote: “It was no accident. . . Atticus Finch won’t win, he can't win, but he’s the only man in these part who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that”(289).

Chapter 23 • Title: Types of People • Summary: Bob Ewell’s threats are scaring the Finch siblings, but Atticus reassures them that Bob has no intention of following through. Later, Scout is worked into a fit when Aunt Alexandra starts telling her who she can and can’t play with, as this goes against everything Scout believes about people being equal. • Quote: "I know it's not right, but I can't figure out what's wrong" (294)

Chapter 24 • Title: A Lady’s Way • Summary: Scout has to stay behind with Cal and Aunt Alexandra as she is hosting a small get together with the Maycomb ladies. The ladies begin to talk about the spreading of Christianity and Christian ideals, and several make comments about how the African American community shouldn’t be mopping and should “be lucky” that they get to work in the town. Ms. Maudie and Aunt Alexandra share several moments of comfort together, before and after the delivery of the news that Tom Robinson was killed trying to escape. Atticus takes Cal to help him console Helen Robinson, and Aunt Alexandra is reassured by Ms. Maudie, and continues on as if she is unaffected, Scout internalizes this as what it truly means to be a lady. • Quote: “Why shoot, I thought you wanted to be a lawyer, you've already commenced going to court. ” (308)

Chapter 25 • Title: Dead Man Walking • Summary: Chapter 25 begins with Scout attempting to squish a roly-poly and Jem stopping her. He explains that the little bug didn’t do anything to her and Scout views this as “girly”. Dill tells Scout how he and Jem took a ride to Mrs. Robinson’s house with Atticus who told them about Tom's death. At the end of the chapter, Scout comes to the realization that Tom was a dead man as soon as he was accused by Mayella. • Quote: “He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser. ” (323)

Chapter 26 • Title: Leaving Bad Memories Behind • Summary: Jem and Scout start going to school again, which means they had to go by the Radley place again. They were older so they weren’t scared of Boo Radley anymore, but scout still hope she would see him at least once. Scout is in third grade now and her teacher, Miss Gates, teaches them about Hitler and that reminds Scout of the trial. She talks to Jem about it and he gets mad and tells her never to talk about it again. • Quote: “I never wants hear about that courthouse again ever”

Chapter 27 • Title: The Aftermath • Summary: By this time it is now the middle of October, Mr. Ewell got a job for the WPA and lost it a few days later for laziness. On a Sunday, Judge Taylor was at home alone because he wasn't a ‘Sunday -night churchgoer’. As he was alone he was visited by an unknown person and when Mrs. Taylor came back she saw Judge Taylor holding a shotgun standing guard. Bob Ewell followed Helen home because Mr. Link told him to stop harassing Helen when she walks to work. Around the end of October during Halloween, the town had sponsored a party and play at the school. Both Alexandra and Atticus are too tired to take Scout to the school. So Jem take her to the school. • Quote: “Somebody just walked over my grave” (339).

Chapter 28 • Title: Who Did It? • Summary: Jem walks Scout to school for the Halloween play and party, and Cecil Jacobs jumps out to scare them. Scout and Cecil go through the “haunted house” and buy candy once at school, while Jem is with his own classmates. Once the play begins, Scout falls asleep and is late to her entrance. She is so embarrassed that she and Jem wait until everyone leaves before heading home. Jem and Scout walk home, and Jem hears noises behind them. They assume it’s just Cecil, but Jem realizes it is someone else running towards them and tells Scout to run. Scout falls in her costume so Jem helps her get to the road. The person following them grabs Jem, and Scout hears a crunch sound before Jem screams. She runs to help him but is grabbed by the attacker. Someone else comes along and pulls the attacker away. Scout feels a man on the ground who smells like whiskey. She sees another man carrying Jem away, towards their home. Scout gets home and they call Dr. Reynolds, who says Jem is unconscious with a broken arm and a bump on his head. Scout finds the man who carried Jem home in the room with them, but does not recognize him. Heck Tate announces Bob Ewell was found dead under a tree. • Quote: ”Mr. Tate found his neck and rubbed it. ‘Bob Ewell’s lyin’ on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. He’s dead, Mr. Finch” (Lee 357).

Chapter 29 • Title: Out of the Shadows • Summary: In this chapter, Bob Ewell is dead, and Atticus thinks that Jem may have killed him, but the sheriff thinks that the knife he had stabbed him in the ribs. Then Scout tells the story, and the sheriff sees the line in her costume, and it shows that Bob was trying to stab her. Then she mentions that Mr. Ewell had broken Jem’s arm, then Boo Radley shows up and saves them. • Quote: “His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. ‘Hey, Boo’ I said” (362).

Chapter 30 • Title: Who dun it? • Summary: The doctor shows up at the Finch house to make sure Jem is okay. After confirming that he is, everyone goes out to the front porch. Atticus is convinced that Jem was the one that killed Bob Ewell. Mr. Tate tries to convince Atticus that Bob died by “falling” onto his knife but Atticus doesn’t want the county to think he’s covering things up for Jem. Heck explains that the Tom was innocent and didn’t deserve to die, and the man who sentenced him to that death is now dead, so they shouldn’t mess with the way of things. • Quote: “There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it’s dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead. ” (Lee 369). “Well it’d be sorta like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it? ” (370).

Chapter 31 • Title: • Summary: Scout and Boo are watching over Jem as he sleeps. Scout somehow realizes Boo wants to go so she walks him back to his house. She’s realizes that he’s given them so much over the years and they’ve given him nothing. Of course she never sees him again. When she walks home she see the neighborhood from Boo’s view point and just imagines the past. She then realizes she might have some more growing up to do. • Quote: “I looked behind me. To the left of the brown door was a long shuttered window. I walked to it, stood in front of it, and turned around… Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. ” (Lee, 283)