To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 6 CHAPTER

To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 - 6 • CHAPTER SUMMARIES • CHILDREN’S CURIOSITY • DEVELOPING THE RADLEYS • OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF

Chapter Summaries Chapter 4 • Scout finds chewing gum in tree (p. 33) • Indian-head pennies found by Scout and Jem (p. 34) • School finished for year • Scout ends up in Radley’s yard • Game of Boo Radley (p. 38 -41) Chapter 5 • Recognition of relationship between Scout and Dill (p. 41) • Miss Maudie & Scout discuss Boo (p. 42 -45) • “Foot-washing” Baptists (p. 44) • Children’s plan to give a note to Boo (p. 46) • Children caught by Atticus (p. 49) To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 - 6 Chapter 6 • Trying to look at Boo Radley (p. 51) • The shadow of Boo (p. 53) • Nathan Radley’s shotgun (p. 53 -54)

Children’s Curiosity “The only thing to fear is fear itself” -President Roosevelt, 1933. To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 - 6 Why are the children so fascinated with Boo Radley? “Do you think they’re true, all those things they say about B-Mr. Arthur? ” (p. 45) “We’re askin’ him real politely to come out sometimes, and tell us what he does in there – we said we won’t hurt him and we’d buy him an ice cream. ” (p. 47) “He lay down, and for a while I heard his cot trembling. Soon he was still. I did not hear him stir again. ” (p. 57) Is this just the curious nature of children or is this an unhealthy obsession?

Developing The Radleys “he dined on raw squirrels and cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained-if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off” (p. 13) Why does Boo Radley remain in his house? Religious Household Baptists Foot. Washers (Anything Pleasuring is Sinful) “but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of [others]” (p. 45) Judge not lest ye be judged (Matthew 7: 1) To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 - 6

Developing The Radleys To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 - 6 NATHAN RADLEY “Says he’s got the other barrel waitin’ for the next sound he hears in that patch, an’ next time he won’t aim high, be it dog, nigger, or – Jem Finch!” (p. 54) BOO RADLEY “Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on the gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge, every passing Negro laughing was Boo Radley loose and after us; insects splashing against the screen were Boo Radley’s insane fingers picking the wire to pieces” (p. 55)

Important Chapter Stuff ALLUSIONS: A reference in literature to another work of literature, a person, a place or an event, either explicitly or implicitly To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 - 6 Literature… The stories that Dill, Jem & Scout act out Religion… Mentioning the Bible Gothic Literature… A literary style combining romance and horror

Important Chapter Stuff USE OF LANGUAGE: Lee writes in a style that mimics the sound of 1930 s Alabama To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 4 - 6 Contracted words: (thinkin’; y’all; ‘em), etc. Use of the word Nigger (Similar to our use of the word ‘gay’ or ‘retard’) Gothic Literature… A literary style combining romance and horror