To kill a Mocking Bird Chapters 1-6 Page 1-50 Summary
A girl named Jean Louise Finch also called Scouts is the narrator of this story. The story have begin with the incident about her older brother broken arm accident that was many years ago. Then she begins to tell about her family history. The first ancestor who came to America is a fur trader named Simon Finch. He then flew to England to flee. In England he makes a successful farm on the banks. It was called Finch’s landing. The first one who can support the family and make a living is the father of the narrator Scout’s father Atticus Finch. He was a lawyer in the nearby town. And Scout’s Uncle, Jack Finch who was a medical student in Boston. He lives with his children Jem and Scout. The maid is an old black woman who helps the father raise his children and keeping their house. Her named was Calpurina. Their mother dead since Scout was two years old.
Forwarding the story into one late summer when Jem was ten and Scout is four years younger than him. A boy name Charles Baker Harris (named like Dylan Baker Harrison) moved besides his home. Charles called himself Dill. He lives with his aunt, Miss Rachel Haveford. Dill was a intelligence talkative boy who can quickly become the Finch head chief while playing with them. When they bored Dill suggests that they go check out the unknown Lure Boo Radley, a weird neighbor.
Arthur was his name. He lives in the Radley Place of course. No one basically no one has seen him playing outside. The Finch know that Arthur had some childhood trouble. He was silence and lost until he was fifteen years later. He stabbed his father with a deadly weapon scissors. People thinks that Arthur was crazy,but not the father. When the father past away. Arthur older brother, Nathan came to live instead but sill Arthur continue staying inside the house.
September after that summer, Dills leave Maycomb returning to his hometown. At the same time Scout prepares to go to school! When she was at school the teacher named was Miss Caroline Fisher. Scout thinks that she deals with student poorly. Before the school open Atticus the father as a smart lawyer had taught his child how to read, but Miss Caroline was very upset and makes Scout feel guilty for being educated before other.
Then she returns to the class, they both get along badly. Walter Cunningham, one boy in the same class forgot his lunch. As a teacher Miss Caroline offers him a quarter to buy his lunch telling he can return her tomorrow, but Miss Caroline did not know that Walter family was a large and very poor family that whenever they as for Atticus help they can’t afford to give money to him but they gave hickory nuts, turnip greens, or other goods in exchange. Scout try to help but Miss Caroline got angry and hit her with a ruler.
Jem invites Walter to lunch at the Finch house. Returning to the school next day, Miss Caroline was so scared after a tiny bug crawls out from Burris Well another boy in Scout’s class. He is from the Ewell family. This is even poor and very less respected, worse than the Walters. The Ewell’s family sends their kid only of the first week of the school to avoid trouble with the law.
After school one day while she was walking home see passes Arthur’s place and noticing something different. She saw two chewing gums sticking on trees newly packed. She chews both of it and told Jem about it. He was shock and forces her to spit the gums out of the mouth. The last day of school comes and while they are going home they find two old Indian-head pennies hidden in the same place as the gum was few days ago.
Summer has arrived! School was suspense for a while, and Dill came back to Maycomb. Dill, Jem, and the lovely girl begin the games again. As the days had gone by the games became more interesting. They create a girl that they acts out the whole family of Radley. Until Atticus caught them playing these weird games the father ask if it have anything to do with Radley but Jem lies and Atticus did not say anything and went back inside. The kids are thinking to themselves that the games they are playing is safe to play or not?
The two boys relationship grew closer and closer until Scout the little girl felt left out. As the results of this feeling she start moving away from them, She starts a new relationship with the her neighbors Miss Maudie Atkinson, a widow who have a very skilled job at gardening and baking, also a friend of Atticus brother, Jack. She said that Radley is still alive and he is a victim of a bad father hashing on him. She said the rumors news are false he is not crazy but maybe crazy now. Jem and Dill was planning to invite Boo to a ice cream with them. They tried to stick the notes inside but Atticus stop them first with both notes and BOO RADLEY game.
Jem and Dill believe what Atticus said. Until the last day in Maycomb , the last day that Dill can stay. Dill and Jem plan to peep and make a boo at the Radley place. Scout followed them too. They were walking around the house. Suddenly they saw a shadow of men with hat on it. Hearing the sounds of a gun behind them. They quickly run and escape. While they were fleeing Jem’s pants got stuck on the fence he have to take it off to free himself.
When they return they saw adults gossiping about something. Miss Maudie told everyone that Nathan had shot a negro in his yard. She added that Nathan is waiting for the next one outside. Atticus asks Jem why are his pants missing. Dill snooped up saying he won Jems’s pant in a strip poker. Then Atticus asked them if they were playing cards. Jems told that they were playing with matches. Late that night Jem went to Radley’s place and got his pants back!
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