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1. It depends on who you’re asking but the most trustworthy seems to be Atticus. 2. 3. Integrity & not to have prejudice 4. Racism, tolerance 5. Scout’s teacher, Calpurnia, and Atticus. 6. Walter is more independence; his home life isn’t very good. 7. It suggests she’s a no-nonsense type of person. 8. 9. Scouts learns to accept others such as Walter 10. He means that you can't understand a person until you 'live their life'. This is hard for Scout to learn as she is young and doesn't understand Atticus at the beginning. 11. She’s confused and doesn’t like them. 12. They play boo’s game 13. They found it a fun way to pass the time. 14. Atticus doesn't overreact. He questions them, taking the scissors away. He’s a good father/role model. 15. 16. Dill and Scout don't have much of a relationship. Dill seems to have forgotten that he was "in love" with her and becomes close to Jem. 17. She's sharp tongued, honest, benevolent to the children, great at baking cakes and gardening, is sympathetic towards Boo Radley. She's the children's best friend and kind of a mother figure to Scout. 18. He said Boo is a person and should be treated as such, not as a game. 19. They sneak over to the radley's house and peek through a loose shutter. When asked where Jem's pants were, their cover up was that he lost them to Dill in a game of poker. 20. A “negro” and it reveals the prejudice going on in that time. 21. The fear was of being caught. 22. No he doesn’t because he knows why they are there. 23. When Jem and Scout went to put the letter in the hole in the tree they saw that the hole had been plugged over with cement. Boo's older brother Mr. Radley did so. 24. There is evidence that jem is more mature and older in this chapter because when he tells scout" don’t you cry, scout don’t cry now, don’t you worry" it shows that jem is more mature and comforts her when she is upset. 25. 1. In

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