Chapter 7 & 8

Chapter 7:
Jem has been moody and silently since the pants incident, and Scout is having about as much fun in second grade as she did first (which was very little). As the two were now on the same schedule, they walked home together that day, to find a new thing in the tree knot. Two soap cravings of people, that looked identical to themselves. The craving lead them to believe Mr. Avery, the only man they know that whittles, must be putting thing in the tree. But the after numerous more visits to the tree, Nathan Radley plugged up the tree with cement, claiming thats what you do to "dying trees". Atticus when asked later that day, told Jem and Scout that the tree wasn't dying. Jem took the news hard, and when he returned to the house, his face showed he had been crying.

Allusion: the Egyptian walk
Atticus, Jem, Scout, Nathan Radley, (mentioned but to seen: Miss Maudie, Walter Cunningham, and and Mr. Avery)
This chapter was exposition.

Chapter 8:
Old Mrs. Radley has died, not that it effected much of the community. The morning after the old woman's death, Scout and Jem both look out the window and see snow for the first time. After breakfast, they asked Atticus if he knew how to build to snowman, but he said no and that there was barely enough snow to make a snowball. But that didn't stop the children, for they borrowed snow from Miss Maudie and used mud from around their house to create a snowman that resembled another one of their neighbors. His father praised Jem for the good job, which made Jem redden. That night was freezing, but by 1am Atticus had woken the two up and hurried to get them out of the house. A fire had started next door at Miss Maudie's house, so all the men and firemen worked together to put it out and prevent the other surrounding houses from catching fire as well. By the end of the night and early dawn, the fire was out, and the men all returned home. Half frozen and tired, Jem and Scout didn't have to go to school that day, but Atticus noticed a new blanket wrapped around Scouts shoulders. When asked about it, Scout and Jem both didn't know where the blanket had come from, but their father had, Boo Radley had wrapped it around the freezing girl while she wasn't looking.

Allusion: Appomattox - a former village in central Virginia
Atticus, Jem, Scout, Miss Maudie, Miss Crawford, Mr Avery, Nathan Radley, Boo Radley, Calpurnia, and Miss Rachel
Chapter 8 was the beginning of the inciting event