Chapter 1
· The setting is being described by the main character which you don’t know her name yet.
· Explains how Boo Radley lives in the house and never goes out, he is very creepy.
· They introduce Dill and her father Atticus Finch
· Atticus majors in law and is a lawyer and has a very important case going on
Chapter 2
· Talks about going to school
· Eventually Jem decides to take the narrator to school
· The teacher Ms. Caroline tries her best to get control of the class but the kids were too stupid to help her.
· Most kids are repeating first grade
· When Ms. Caroline asks the narrator to read she does it with ease and that tics the teacher off slightly.
· She goes on the day doing her best for the kids yet the kids were too mean and weird for her and she couldn’t take it.
Chapter 3
· Ms.Caroline makes a big fuzz because she finds lice in someone’s hair (Cootie)
· Tries to send that student to his house and make him take a shower but then he says that he wont come back cause he’s a Ewel.
· Scout being unsatisfied with her first day of school makes plans to run from school.
· Atticus talks sense into her and convinces her to stay.
Chapter 4
· Since Scout passes infront of the Radley house every day on her way to school she notices a hole carved in a tree with two pieces of chewing gum in it.
· Summer arrives; Jem and Scout find two Indian pennies inside the hole.
· Dill arrive and they start making new games and eventually they end up in the Radley’s yard
· Dill starts imitating the life of the Radley’s throught the whole summer, and Atticus would forbid this except that he doesn’t quite know what they are doing.
Chapter 5
· Dill asks Scout to marry him
· Scout then starts spending time with Miss Maudie
· Miss Maudie always made the best cakes
· Miss Maudie is a widow and is obsessed with gardening
· Scout asks if Boo Radley was still alive and she answers yes and that hes called Arthur.
· Miss Maudie is a Baptist and constantly gets insulted because people say that her flowers should go to hell.
· Scout, Jem and Dill planed to make Arthur leave the house and give him a letter that made, it basically said to hang out with them and have ice-cream with them.
· When Jem was trying to get the letter in Arthurs’s house, Dill started to ring the doorbell lots of times because Atticus got there.
· She was forcibly stopped by Atticus and then lectured about having respect for Arthur as he did nothing bad to them.
Chapter 6
· Jem and Dill get the idea of going for a walk and then end up peeking through the Radley’s window.
· When they infiltrate the back yard the see a shadow directed towards them, after that a gun shot is heard and they start running.
· Jem looses his pants and he ends up covering up the starty by says that they were playing with fire.
· Jem eventually goes and gets his pants back.
Chapter 7
· Schools back and its exacly the same as first grade
· Jem explains that his clothes were folded and were kind of fixed when he went back for them.
· The hole in the tree is filled with cement after they send a leter to the secret messenger.
Chapter 8
· Winter comes at unexpected times
· Mr. Radley dies and Atticus goes to the funeral and he didn’t see Boo Radley in there.
· Miss Maudies house caught fire in the middle of a freezing night, when Scout goes to inspect she falls asleep in the middle of the sidewalk
· Boo Radley gives her a blanket when she doesn’t know and is hit by terror right after
Chapter 9
· Scout starts getting accused by people because her father defends niggers
· Atticus tells Scout to ignore all of the insults thrown at her
· Next moring she is about to get in a fight when she walks right out of it
· Christmas comes and so does Uncle Jack and Aunt Alexandra
· In Christmas they open their gifts that Uncle Jack gave them and it’s a air rifle
· She goes to try out the air rifles with Jem but he eventually leaves and she is left alone with Francis, Aunt Alexandra’s kid
· Francis insults Atticus by saying that he is a “nigger lover”
Chapter 10
· Atticus is becoming old and he rarely does anything
· Atticus is against the air rifles but unckle Jack thinks otherwise
· Scout asks Miss Maudie if there was anything cool that Atticus could do and the examples she gives are not impressive
· Scout and Jem go hunting but they see a mad dog
· Calpurnia starts telling everyone to stay inside their homes
· Atticus shoots the dog because no one dared to kill it
· Scout is impressed by the skills of his father
· The setting is being described by the main character which you don’t know her name yet.
· Explains how Boo Radley lives in the house and never goes out, he is very creepy.
· They introduce Dill and her father Atticus Finch
· Atticus majors in law and is a lawyer and has a very important case going on
Chapter 2
· Talks about going to school
· Eventually Jem decides to take the narrator to school
· The teacher Ms. Caroline tries her best to get control of the class but the kids were too stupid to help her.
· Most kids are repeating first grade
· When Ms. Caroline asks the narrator to read she does it with ease and that tics the teacher off slightly.
· She goes on the day doing her best for the kids yet the kids were too mean and weird for her and she couldn’t take it.
Chapter 3
· Ms.Caroline makes a big fuzz because she finds lice in someone’s hair (Cootie)
· Tries to send that student to his house and make him take a shower but then he says that he wont come back cause he’s a Ewel.
· Scout being unsatisfied with her first day of school makes plans to run from school.
· Atticus talks sense into her and convinces her to stay.
Chapter 4
· Since Scout passes infront of the Radley house every day on her way to school she notices a hole carved in a tree with two pieces of chewing gum in it.
· Summer arrives; Jem and Scout find two Indian pennies inside the hole.
· Dill arrive and they start making new games and eventually they end up in the Radley’s yard
· Dill starts imitating the life of the Radley’s throught the whole summer, and Atticus would forbid this except that he doesn’t quite know what they are doing.
Chapter 5
· Dill asks Scout to marry him
· Scout then starts spending time with Miss Maudie
· Miss Maudie always made the best cakes
· Miss Maudie is a widow and is obsessed with gardening
· Scout asks if Boo Radley was still alive and she answers yes and that hes called Arthur.
· Miss Maudie is a Baptist and constantly gets insulted because people say that her flowers should go to hell.
· Scout, Jem and Dill planed to make Arthur leave the house and give him a letter that made, it basically said to hang out with them and have ice-cream with them.
· When Jem was trying to get the letter in Arthurs’s house, Dill started to ring the doorbell lots of times because Atticus got there.
· She was forcibly stopped by Atticus and then lectured about having respect for Arthur as he did nothing bad to them.
Chapter 6
· Jem and Dill get the idea of going for a walk and then end up peeking through the Radley’s window.
· When they infiltrate the back yard the see a shadow directed towards them, after that a gun shot is heard and they start running.
· Jem looses his pants and he ends up covering up the starty by says that they were playing with fire.
· Jem eventually goes and gets his pants back.
Chapter 7
· Schools back and its exacly the same as first grade
· Jem explains that his clothes were folded and were kind of fixed when he went back for them.
· The hole in the tree is filled with cement after they send a leter to the secret messenger.
Chapter 8
· Winter comes at unexpected times
· Mr. Radley dies and Atticus goes to the funeral and he didn’t see Boo Radley in there.
· Miss Maudies house caught fire in the middle of a freezing night, when Scout goes to inspect she falls asleep in the middle of the sidewalk
· Boo Radley gives her a blanket when she doesn’t know and is hit by terror right after
Chapter 9
· Scout starts getting accused by people because her father defends niggers
· Atticus tells Scout to ignore all of the insults thrown at her
· Next moring she is about to get in a fight when she walks right out of it
· Christmas comes and so does Uncle Jack and Aunt Alexandra
· In Christmas they open their gifts that Uncle Jack gave them and it’s a air rifle
· She goes to try out the air rifles with Jem but he eventually leaves and she is left alone with Francis, Aunt Alexandra’s kid
· Francis insults Atticus by saying that he is a “nigger lover”
Chapter 10
· Atticus is becoming old and he rarely does anything
· Atticus is against the air rifles but unckle Jack thinks otherwise
· Scout asks Miss Maudie if there was anything cool that Atticus could do and the examples she gives are not impressive
· Scout and Jem go hunting but they see a mad dog
· Calpurnia starts telling everyone to stay inside their homes
· Atticus shoots the dog because no one dared to kill it
· Scout is impressed by the skills of his father
Summary:
Chapter 24:
Chapter 25:
Chapter 26:
Chapter 27:
Chapter 28:
Chapter 29:
Chapter 30:
Chapter 31:
Chapter 24:
- Aunt Alexandra invites her missionary circle to tea.
- Scout has a dress on, and is asked by Aunt Alexandra to stay with her and her missionary circle.
- Scout listens to the missionary circle talk about the Mrunas, being converted to Christianity, and then talk about how their own black servants have behaved badly ever since Tom Robinson’s trial.
- Atticus appears and calls Alexandra to the kitchen. There he tells her, Scout, Calpurnia, and Miss Maudie that Tom Robinson attempted to escape and was shot seventeen times. He takes Calpurnia with him to tell the Robinson family of Tom’s death.
- Alexandra asks Miss Maudie how the town can allow Atticus to wreck himself in pursuit of justice. Maudie replies that the town trusts him to do right. They return with Scout to the missionary circle, managing to act as if nothing is wrong.
Chapter 25:
- September had begun and Jem and Scout are on the back porch when Scout notices a roly-poly bug.
- Scout wants to smash it with her hand when Jem tells her not to. When she asks Jem why she shouldn’t have mashed it, he says that the bug didn’t do anything to harm her. Scout thinks that it is Jem is becoming more and more like a girl.
- Jem had convinced Atticus to let them accompany him to Helen Robinson’s house, where they saw her collapse even before Atticus could say about Tom Robinson dying.
- Meanwhile, the news spreads over Maycomb for two days, and everyone agrees that it is typical for a black man to do something not called for like try to escape.
- Mr. Underwood writes a long editorial about Tom’s death as the murder of an innocent man. The only reaction comes when Bob Ewell is overheard saying that Tom’s death makes “one down and about two more to go.”
- Summer ends and Dill leaves.
Chapter 26:
- School starts and Jem and Scout begin to pass by the Radley Place every day.
- They are now too old to be frightened by the house, but Scout still wistfully wishes to see Boo Radley just once.
- One day in school, her third-grade teacher Miss Gates, lectures the class about of Hitler persecution on the Jews and on the importance of equality and democracy.
- Scout listens and later asks Jem how Miss Gates can preach about equality when she came out of the courthouse after the trial and told Miss Stephanie Crawford that it was about time that someone taught the blacks in town a lesson.
- Jem gets very angry and tells Scout never to mention the trial to him again.
Chapter 27:
- In the middle of October, Bob Ewell gets a job with the WPA and loses it a few days later.
- He blames Atticus for getting his job.
- Judge Taylor is home alone and hears someone prowling around, he goes to see what is happening and finds his screen door open and sees a shadow creeping away.
- Bob Ewell then begins to follow Helen Robinson to work
- Ewel gets threatened for following Helen Robinson is told to have him arrested if he doesn’t leave Helen alone
- In Halloween, the town has a party and play at the school. This plan is an attempt to avoid the previous Halloween, when someone robbed the house of two elderly sisters and hid all of their furniture in their basement.
- Scout wears a wire mesh shaped to look like ham. Atticus and Aunt Alexandra are too tired to go to the festivities, so Jem takes Scout to the school.
Chapter 28:
- Cecil Jacobs jumps out and scares Jem and Scout.
- Scout and Cecil walk around the school, visiting the haunted house in a seventh-grade classroom and buying candy.
- The pageant is about to start and all of the children go backstage. Scout, falls asleep and misses her entrance.
- She runs onstage at the end, giving Judge Taylor and many others to burst out laughing. T
- The woman in charge of the pageant accuses Scout of ruining it. Scout is so ashamed that she and Jem wait backstage until the crowd is gone before they go home.
- On the walk back home, Jem hears noises. They think it must be Cecil Jacobs trying toscare them again, but when they call him, they hear no reply. They are about to get home, until the person begins running after them. Jem screams for Scout to run, she loses her balance and falls.
- Jem drags Scout almost all the way to the road before their person pulls him back. Scout hears a crunching sound and Jem screams. She runs toward him and is grabbed him.
- Suddenly, the attacker stops. Scout falls on the ground for Jem, they find out it was a man smelling of whiskey.
- She stumbles toward home, and sees a man carrying Jem toward her house.
- Scout reaches home, and Aunt Alexandra goes to call Dr. Reynolds. Atticus calls Heck Tate, telling him that someone has attacked his children. Alexandra removes Scout’s costume, and tells her that Jem is unconscious, not dead.
- Dr. Reynolds then arrives and goes into Jem’s room. He informs Scout that Jem has a broken arm and a bump on his head, but that he will be all right.
- The man who carried him home is in the room, but she does not recognize him. Heck Tate appears and tells Atticus that Bob Ewell is dead, with a knife stuck under his ribs.
Chapter 29:
- As Scout tells everyone what she heard and saw Heck Tate shows her costume with a mark on it where a knife was and was stopped by the wire.
- When Scout gets to the point in the story where Jem was picked up and carried home, she turns to the man in the corner and looks at him for the first time. He is pale, with torn clothes and a thin, pinched face and colorless eyes, which is Boo Radley.
Chapter 30:
- Scout takesMr. Arthur to the porch, and they sit in shadow listening to Atticus and Heck Tate argue.
- Heck insists on calling the death an accident, but Atticus, doesn’t want his son protected from the law. Heck corrects him Ewell fell on his knife Jem didn’t kill him.
- He knows that Boo Radley is the one who stabbed Bob Ewell, Heck wants to hush up the whole thing by saying that Boo Radley doesn’t need the attention of the neighborhood.
Chapter 31:
- Scout takes Boo Radley upstairs to say goodnight to Jem and then walks him home.
- He goes inside his house, and she never sees him again. But she imagines the world from his perspective.
- She returns home and finds Atticus sitting in Jem’s room. He reads one of Jem’s books to her until she falls asleep.