To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Summary :: To Kill a Mockingbird Essays

CH. 1 sentinel, the narrator, remembers the summer that her brother Jem broke his arm, and she looks back over the eld to rec both the incidents that led to that climactic event. spy provides a brief interpolation to the town of Maycomb, Alabama and its inhabitants, including her widowed father Atticus Finch, attorney and verbalise legislator Calpurnia, their Negro cook and housekeeper and various inhabits.The story starts with the first summer that Scout and Jem meet Dill, a little boy from Meridian, pretermitissippi who spends the summers with his aunt, the Finchs next-door neighbor Miss Rachel Haverford.From the childrens point of view, their most compelling neighbor is darn Radley, a recluse whom none of them has ever seen. Dills fascination, in particular, leads to all sorts of games and plans to try and get Boo to come remote. Their attempts culminate in a dare to Jem, which he grudgingly takes. Jem runs into the Radleys yard and touches the outside of the house.CH. 2 - 3Dill goes back to Mississippi for the school year, and Scout turns her attention to starting first gradesomething shes been waiting for all her life. However, Scouts first day at school is non at all the glorious experience shed been expecting from the winters she spent feel over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power reach . . . learning their games, . . . secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.Scouts teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, is new to teaching, new to Maycomb, and mortified that Scout al ingesty knows how to read and write. When Miss Caroline offers to lend Walter Cunningham lunch gold, Scout is punished for winning it upon herself to explain Miss Carolines faux pas to her. (Walter refuses to take the money because his family is too poor to pay it back.)Scout catches Walter on the playground, and starts to pummel him in retaliation for her embarrassment, but Jem stops her and then further surprises her by inviting Walte r to baffle lunch with them. Scout is then punished by Calpurnia for criticizing Walters submit manners. Back at school, Miss Caroline has a confrontation with Burris Ewell rough his cooties and the fact that he only attends school on the first day of the year.That evening, Scout tells Atticus about her day, hoping that she wont have to go back to schoolafter all, Burris Ewell doesnt. Atticus explains why the Ewells get specific consideration and then tells Scout, You never really understand a psyche .