Chapter 10

Scout notices that her father is old, and does not do the propensities of other fathers of the town. She felt embarrassed because he was not like the regular parents who play football with their kids, or join their physical activity games. Atticus was a man who wore glasses, and love to read. He does not hunt, or fish. Later in chapter 10, a mad dog is presented in Scout's neighborhood, and the Sheriff asks Atticus to shoot the mad dog. Atticus had no difficulties in shooting the mad dog who was at a long distance. Scout and Jem get surprise about the skill Atticus had for shooting. Miss Maudie then explains to them that when Atticus was young he was known as the best shot of the county, and often called the "one shot finch" . Scout finally sees something to tell everyone about because she felt proud of her father's image but Jem tells her not to tell anyone because if Atticus never told them of the skill he had, it must had been for a reason.  

Chapter 9

Summary: Chapter 9

In chapter 9, Cecil Jacobs, Scout's classmate insults Scout by saying that her father, Atticus was a nigger defender. Scout was about to start  a fight but she did not, since she had to understand that there will always be people who disagree. Atticus defends Tom Robinson because as a lawyer he does not like to be part of an injustice community. 

It was Christmas time, and uncle Jack, Atticus brother, came to visit the Finch. After staying for days, Jack, Scout, Jim, and Atticus went to the Finch landing. In the Finch landing lived Aunt Alexandra and her husband. Here Scout was not free from all the insults, there was Francis, Alexandra;s grandson. Scout beats Francis for calling Dill a runt and Atticus a " nigger lover". Francis tells Alexandra and Uncle Jack that Scout hit him, and Uncle Jack spanks her without hearing her side of the story. When they returned to Maycomb, uncle Jack hears her side of the story. She makes uncle Jack promise to not tell Atticus about the fight or else he will be disappointed. Uncle Jack realizes that he is not a good uncle, and what her niece was saying was true, he felts sorry for smacking her and not hearing her side of the story before. Scout overhears Atticus and Jack talking downstairs talking about Tom Robinson's innocence but that wont be enough because he knows that the jury will  not acquit him because they believe to a white person's testimony over a black person's. 

chapter 8

Scout and Jem see snow for the first time. School is canceled because it has been the coldest winter they ever had in history. Scout and Jem both are excited and go after Miss Maudies’s snow to build a snowman. Since there wasn’t enough snow they had to build the snowman out of dirt and apply snow on top of it. The snowman resembled Mr. Avery, so Atticus thought they were making fun of the man and interdicts them to disguise it. Atticus takes Scout and Jem go out of the house because Miss Maudies’s house was burn down. Scout was to wait alone near Atticus and her brother and she suddenly finds out that she had a blanket on her. Jem says that Boo placed the blanket on her and decides to tell Atticus of all the presents they found and about the incident that happened with his pants. Scout got to see Boo and was about to throw up. The next day Miss Maudie tells Scout and Jem that she was not satisfied with her house, and it did not afflicted her to have lost her house, instead she was ready to build a smaller house with a large garden.  

chapter 7

Near the Radleys house there is a tree with a knothole. It was the same knothole where Scout found the gums. This time Scout and Jem found a ball of gray twine and since no one took it they took it home. We also know that Scout is apathetic about the school’s curriculum because it was as dreary as in first grade. There is also more presents found in the knothole such as two figures carved in soap that resembled Scout and Jem. Scout and Jem found out that the knothole was not filled with cement. Jem soon asks Nathan Radley, Boo’s brother why the tree was with cement. Mr. Radley said that he did it because the tree was dying. 

chapter 6

In chapter 6 we get to experience another adventure propensities from Jem, Dill and Scout. They all decided to sneak into the Radley place by peeking in the windows. All the sudden they see a shadow of a man with a hat and they escape under the fence of the schoolyard as soon as they heard a shotgun. When Jem, Scout and Dill escape, they find themselves with all the neighbors gather; Atticus, Miss Maudie, and Miss Stephanie Crawford. Miss Maudie tell the people that   Mr. Nathan Radley shot at a Negro in his yard. When Atticus ses Jem, he asks him were his pants were and Dill to cover him says that they were playing strip poker. Jem's pants was actually caught by the Radley fence when they were escaping.  In the night, Jem sneaks out to the Radley Place, and gets his pants.


Analysis: Chapters 4–6

Hitherto, we can see that Boo's character has been slowly changing. His abominable recognition is changing, now he is transforming from a monster into a human being. All the stricture are being sagged by the sympathetic people such as Aittucs, and  Miss Maudie. Their attiude is different towards Boo, they believe he is benevolent, and all the libels have turned him into a monster. Miss Maudie says that he is not a demon, and he is a victim that has suffered at the hands of a tyrannically religious family. Boo has lived a childhood with a mad father obsessed with sin and retribution. Boo is venerable by the people who know his real events of life that leaded him to be taciturn and sullen.

chapter 5

 Jem and Dill plan to give a note to Boo inviting him out to get ice cream with them. They try to stick the note in a window of the Radley Place with a fishing pole, but Atticus catches them and orders them to “stop tormenting that man” with either notes or the “Boo Radley” game.y talent for gardening, and cake baking. She also is friend with Atticus brother, jack and they met each other since they were kids. Miss Maudie Atkinson tell Scout that Boo is alive and was a victim of a harsh father who is no dead. Boo's father belonged to the “foot-washing” Baptist who believed that most people were going to hell. She says that Boo was a friendly and polite person, and all the rumors they talk about him are grim because they are false. Jem and Dill plan cannily to give a note to Boo saying if he wanted to eat ice cream with them, but Atticus caught them and told them to stop irking Mr. Boo.

chapter 4

During Scout's school is was dull, and pestering by all the interdicts of Miss Caroline to not go ahead of her curriculum. When Scout was walking by the Radley place she found a tinfoil out of a knothole in a oak tree, where she found two pieces of chewing gum. Scout tell Jem and he immediately tells her to spit out the gum.  The next time Scout and Jem passes by the Radley place, they both find a Indian-head” pennies hidden in the same knothole where the gums were found. School year ends and summer begins, Dill is back and they all start playing their games. The first game they played was to get inside the tire and roll. When it was Scout's turn she rolles into the Radley place and both Jem and Dill panic and immediately Scout gets out of the Radley place.  After this incident Jem invents a game dealing with Boo Radley, the game was acting out as if they were the Radley family. Atticus catches them cutting the newspaper with the scissors and suspects they were playing out the incident of the Radleys, and tell them to stop playing. The children decide to stop playing the game since it might not be safe to keep playing it.