Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5:
Jem and Dill start excluding Scout more and more, so she seeks the company of her neighbor, Miss Maudie. As the two's friendship grows, Scout feels more comfortable around her, and brings up the topic of Arthur "Boo" Radley. Miss Maudie claimed she only knows as much as she does, and that the stories were "three fourths colored folks and one fourth Miss Stephanie Crawford''.  The nexted morning Dill and Jem decide they want to make Boo come out, so they come up with a plan. Using a fishing pole, they stuck a note to the end of it, and Jem along with Scout and Dill as lookouts, repeated tried to stick the note in the Radley's broken shutters. Before he could complete his task, Atticus found them, demanded an explanation of what in they were doing, and told Jem, as well as the other two, to leave that man alone.
Chapter 6:
Its the day before Dill has to leave Maycomb, but before he left, he and Jem decided they wanted to got one look at Boo. Scout was very reluctant of this idea, but after Jem told her to stop acting like a girl, she had no choice but to go along. They sneak around in back yards until they reached the house, where Dill had Scout and Jem lift him to see over the window sill. After only seeing the faintest glimpse of light, a shadow appeared, crossed over the children, and disappeared again. They ran to hide from the mysterious figure, only to hear a gunshot from the direction of the house. They sprinted away, climbing under a fence where Jem got stuck and had to remove his pants to free himself. When they returned to the Finch house they rejoined the neighborhood outside the Radley house where Boo's brother stood with a gun, and heard him say if he hears another noise in his collard garden again, he wouldn't miss. Suddenly after asking what was going on to Miss Maudie, everyone noticed Jem wasn't wearing pants and the three were sent home to get them. That night Scout was anxious and terrified by very little noise. Jem told her he was going to go get the pants he lost and if she told, he would kill her. So after a small argument and some pleading, Scout helped and waiting for his return, nervous he wouldn't come back. But minutes later he did, with his pants in his hand, he laid on the cot, and fell asleep.

Allusion - The lady in the moon, who sats at a dressing combing her hair
Foreshadow - Atticus asks Jem after scolding if he still wants to be a lawyer, but once his father was out of earshot Jem yells "I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain't so sure now".

Atticus, Scout, Jem, Dill, Miss Maudie, Nathan Radley, Miss Rachel, Miss Crawford.

Both chapters were still part of the Exposition.

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