9 questions
Describe what Jem,Scout, and Dill do in the Radley yard at the beginning of the chapter?
They sneak into the Radleys backyard with goal can look in the window.
They wanted to see the ghost that was in Radley's house.
To see if it was true breasts Radley had 20 slaves
They wanted to steal tomatoes from their garden
What do they see that makes them run away?
Because they look at a dead man inside the house.
Because Mr. Radley scares them and starts screaming at them
Suddenly they see the shadow of a man,moved across the porch toward Jem.
Because Scout was afraid and felt Mr. Radley was going to find them
What happens to Jem's pants?
From the fear that Mr. Radley will catch them he pee himself .
He went to play with scout on the lake and he got all wet.
He was hot and he does not want to walk in pants.
The children climb through the fence, Jem gets caught up in it and must kick his pants off to get free.
What excuse does Dill make up to explain the situation?
Because he had urinated on him because he was afraid of black children
He says that he won Jem's pants from him in a game of strip poker.
Because he had wet in the lake with scout
Scout is unable to sleep because she is so scared?
Because he had eate the last piece of cake that was left and was afraid that Calepurnia would realize.
Because he had fallen in love with Walter and was afraid to know his father's reaction.
His father was going to marry a racist woman and was afraid that Calpurnia would be dismissed from his job
imagination runs wild through the night. Every sound she hears becomes magnified and transforms itself into something terrifying.
How does she describe her sleepless night? Identify an example of personification in her description?
Every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge, every passing Negro laughing in the night was Boo Radley loose and after us "the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive."
Her mother was alive and the blacks had taken her away "she is not yours, the trees sounded"
His father ran and ran and fell in a pot in that scout jumped to save him but "the evil trees would not let her"
Why is it important to Jem to go back and get his pants before morning, even though the mission is dangerous?
Because they were his mother's favorite pants and he did not want to lose them because it was the only memory he had left of his mother.
He knew Calpurnia had struggled to make those pants so he did not want to lose them because it would make Calpurnia sad.
He does not want to lose his father's respect. I told Scout, "Atticus is not ever whipped me since I can remember. I wanta keep it that way."
Jem has decided that what he, Scout, and Dill did was wrong. What might account for Jem's change of heart?
His developing maturity. He is now thinking about the consequences of his actions and is feeling remorse for having disappointed Atticus.
Because he felt an obligation to be the example of a scout and was doing the opposite as he had promised his mother
He wanted to prove that he was the mature one to be the group leader.
How does Scout feel about it?
Scout, on the other hand, is still very much a child. She cannot understand Jem's newfound moral realization.
She felt sad knowing she and her brother would not be the same since he was falling in love with a girl.
She did not care anyway they had never been so close to her it was not a difference.