Session 5 - Summarizer

Chapter 10:

Scout is embarrassed because Atticus is older than most of the other kid's fathers and does not do all of the same thins. For example, He reads and does not play tackle football with Jem instead of hunting and fishing like the other children's fathers. A mad dog appears and is wandering around near the Finches' house when Calpurnia calls Atticus. Atticus comes home with Heck Tate, the Sheriff, who tells Atticus to shoot the dog. Scout learns a little more about Atticus, for example, Atticus used to be known as "One Shot Finch." Now Scout has something to brag about, but Jem tells her not to show off about this. Jem says that if Atticus had wanted them to know, he would have told them himself.

Chapter 11:

One of the elderly neighbors, Mrs. Dubose, always bothers Jem and Scout, but Atticus constantly reminds Jem to be a gentleman to her because she is sick and old. One day, however, Jem loses his cool when Mrs. Dubose says that Atticus "lawed for Niggers" and he destroys all of her camellias. As a punishment, Jem has to go and read to her every afternoon. Everyday, Jem has to read longer and longer and at the end of each reading, Mrs. Dubose has a fit. Mrs. Dubose dies soon after Jem's punishment is over and when she does, Atticus tells Jem that Mrs. Dubose was addicted to morphine and that when Jem was reading he was distracting her from the addiction. Atticus gives Jem a gift from Mrs. Dubose, a single white camellia.

-Jenn