Session 2 - Summarizer

Chapter 3

At lunch, Scout rubs Walter’s nose in the dirt for getting her in trouble, but Jem intervenes and invites Walter to lunch. At the Finch house, Walter and Atticus talk about the farms conditions “like two men however”. Calpurnia calls Scout into the kitchen to yell at her and slaps her as she returns to the dining room, telling her to be a better hostess. Miss Caroline from School becomes terrified when a tiny bug, or “cootie,” crawls out of a boy’s hair. The boy is Burris Ewell, a member of the Ewell clan. The Ewell has a reputation even below the Cunningham’s. In fact, Burris only comes to school the first day of every school year, making a token appearance to avoid trouble with the law. He leaves the classroom, making enough vicious remarks to cause the teacher to cry.
At home, Atticus follows Scout outside to ask her if something is wrong because she seems upset. All she says is tat she is not feeling well. She then tells him that she doesn’t think she will go to school anymore and asks if he could teach her himself. Atticus replies that the law says that she has to go to school, but he promises to keep reading to her, as long as she does not tell her teacher about it.

Chapter 4

The rest of the school year passes harshly for Scout and the curriculum was moving at a pace too slowly and leaves her constantly frustrated in class. After school one day, she passes the Radley Place and sees some tinfoil sticking out of a knothole in one of their oak trees. Scout sees two pieces of chewing gum and eats both of them but Jem makes her spit them out. On the last day of school in the same knothole were she fount the chewing gum she found two old “Indian- Head” pennies and takes them.
Its summer time and Dill comes back. They are playing all there games once again. One of their games was to roll one another inside an old tire. On Scout’s turn, she rolls in front of the Radley steps, and Jem and Scout panic. However what Scout did gave Jem an idea of a new game, “Boo Radley.” As the summer passes, their game becomes more complicated, until they are acting all the drama from the Raley’s family. Atticus catches them and asks if their game has anything to do with the Radleys. Jem lies and Atticus goes back into the house and ever since Jem lied to Atticus Jem, Scout and Dill wonder if there game is safe.

Chapter 5

Jem and Dill are becoming really close which makes Scout feel left out so she decides to spend time with someone else. In fact she starts to spend time with one of her neighbors, Miss Maudie Atkinson, a widow with a talent for gardening and cake baking and who was a childhood friend of Atticus’s brother, Jack. She tells Scout that Boo Radley is still alive and it is her assumption Boo is the victim of a harsh father, a “foot-washing” Baptist who believed that most people are going to hell. Miss Maudie adds that Boo was always polite and friendly as a child. She says that most of the rumors about him are not true. She says he wasn’t crazy as a child but because of the way he is living he probably is now. Meanwhile, Jem and Dill plan to give a note to Boo inviting him out to get ice cream with them. They try to stick the note in a window of the Radley home with a fishing pole, but Atticus catches them and orders them to “stop tormenting that man” with their notes or the “Boo Radley” game.

-Jessie