To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1-14 Summary

Chapter 1

The first chapter describes the hassles four people have to go through to get to changsha china. Within the train stations and airports, they are trampled by different people clearly looking to make money off the ignorance of foreigners. The narrator is the main character and his motivation for being there is unclear. He did state the other three people were there to teach English. It is assumed that they are all from the states. Many people in the train station want to take advantage of them and prohibit them to get where they want to go with different regulations and clearly made-up rules. Eventually, they do arrive in changsha and get a warm greeting from people in charge of foreign affairs at the university they are working with. They took a eye opening van ride to the university where they were greeted by top notch university administration. For the rest of the chapter the narrator and his friends get acclimated with the university and went out into the city for a small historical tour.
As the lessons carried on through chater 4 it was evident that Pan was serious about his work and teachings. Pan was a legend in the area for his skills in his respective field. He invited the narrator over for dinner one day and told him the only thing he asked of him was too learn English. Pan had his own way of elarning English and while it was not the English teachers normal way of teaching, he copped with it. It was a good chapter because it showed the bond Chinese people can have with Americans of two people trying to achieve two different goals through the same median. There was also a story about the short story “the lottery” in chapter 4 where a young girl questioned the motives of American authors and their imaginations. It sparked a heavy and opinionated