What is the plot summary of To Kill a Mockingbird?
To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of the young narrator’s passage from innocence to experience when her father confronts the racist justice system of the rural, Depression-era South.
What is the main event in Chapter 5 of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Scout convinces Jem to back off on the Radley game, and then Dill asks Scout to marry him. (Hey, it is the South.) Despite this moment of passion, the boys spend most of their time together and neglect Scout. So, Scout spends her time hanging out with Miss Maudie Atkinson, a usually stand-off-ish old lady.
What is Scout being cheated out of?
Scout had the impression that she was being cheated out of something. She felt like her education would be ’12 years of unrelieved boredom’. What did Scout find in the knothole of an oak tree at the edge of the Radley property on her way home from school one day?
Why does Jem cry at the end of chapter 7?
In Chapter Seven, Jem cries when he realizes that Mr. Radley cemented the knot-hole in the tree, not because it was dying, but because he aimed to keep Boo from leaving the children gifts. This is one more example of how the Radley’s cut Boo off from the world.
Why does Scout think the world is ending Why does she feel personally responsible?
Why does Scout think the world is ending? Scout thinks the world is ending because it was snowing. She feels that she is personally responsible because ” it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change ” ( 85).
Why does Jem want to go back to get his pants?
Jem had to go back for his pants because the lie Dill told to Atticus didn’t involve his pants being destroyed, only lost. Atticus would have either punished him for losing the pants (something it would cost money to replace) or have punished him for lying, had he found out how the pants were really lost.
What is Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird about?
After his adventures at the Radley Place, Jem is in a bad mood for a week. Scout starts second grade. It’s just as bad as first grade. Jem finally tells Scout what happened when he went back to the Radley House: his pants were folded up on top of the fence, and the tear in them had been sloppily mended.
Why does JEM cry at the end of Chapter 7?
Is a Mockingjay a real bird?
In Suzanne Collins’ book, The Hunger Games, the mockingjay bird is the evolutionary result of a failed government breeding experiment. Though the mockingjay is not a real species, the fascinating trait of mimicry is very real in the wild, as seen in the mockingbird and other animals.