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    Chapter six begins with the night Dill leaves Maycomb‚ we know school is coming soon and Scout and Jem are sad to see Dill go. As Scout put so bluntly; “ “We’re gonna miss you‚ boy.” I sad” (Harper Lee pg.51). During this chapter an important event takes place. Jem‚ Dill‚ and scout sneak over to the Radley place and are frightened by the shadow that they see in the window shutter‚ they run away and Jem loses his pants on the gate! Nathan Radley had scared them away by shooting a shotgun. They tell

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    Dill came up every summer. Jem‚ Scout and Dill spent most of the summer trying to learn more about the Radley’s. Boo Radley never comes out of his home and the children are determined to try and get him out. Dill dares Jem to touch the porch. Jem finally gives in and when he touches the porch Scout sees movement in the house. When September comes Dill goes back to Meridian‚ and Scout begins to look forward to starting first grade. Jem tries to warn his sister that school and home are two completely

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    Chapter 1 In this chapter the Finch family is introduced by Scout. Simon Finch established a homestead‚ ‘Finch’s Landing’‚ on the banks of the Alabama River. Both of his sons ended up leaving the landing as‚ Atticus‚ studied law; the other had studied medicine. Their sister Alexandra stayed and took care of the landing with her husband. Atticus moves to Maycomb‚ Alabama where he raises his two children‚ Scout and Jem. These children have always been fascinated by the Radley house because of the

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    SUMMARY: Tom Jones receives two letters in this chapter. The first one is from Lady Bellaston. She tells him she should despise him for his behavior at her house and for loving a country girl. She also warns him that she can hate as passionately as she can love. While Mr Jones was thinking how to reply to the letter‚ Lady Bellaston walks in with her dress in disarray. She asks if he has betrayed her‚ and he promises her on his knees that he has not. Suddenly Partridge announces Mrs. Honour’s arrival

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    Carter Lei Lei1 Ms. Brown H. English Pd.5 TKAM QQN 5 part 1 Monday‚ November 12‚ 2012 Summary In chapter 13 aunt Alexandra explains to Atticus that she should stay with them for a while so that the finches have a feminine influence in the house for a while. She associates with the neighbors and begins to learn about the town. She notices that each family is different and each has their own unique characteristics. She tells Atticus that he should teach the children to be proud of being

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    Chapter 1 TKAM · The chapter opens with the introduction of the narrator‚ Scout Finch‚ her older brother Jem‚ and their friend and neighbor‚ Dill · her brother Jem breaking his arm. · She launches into a brief family history‚ beginning with her grandfather‚ Simon Finch. · Scout tells of her days living on the main street with Atticus and Jem‚ along with cook‚ Calpurnia‚ Their mother passed away when Scout was two‚ and she hardly remembers her. · Scout then recalls meeting Dill‚ a seven-year-old boy

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Questions Chapters 1-3 1. Dill‚ Jem‚ Simon Finch‚ Atticus‚ John Hale Finch‚ Calpurnia‚ Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose‚ Mr. Radley‚ Boo Radley‚ Mrs. Radley‚ Mr. Conner‚ Miss Stephanie Crawford‚ Nathan Radley‚ and Scout are introduced in the first chapter. 2. This book is set in the Great Depression (1929-1939). Harper Lee used the Scottsboro Case (1931) as the spark to write the trial sequences in the novel. 3. Scout narrates in the first person‚ telling what she saw

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Question 3 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is considered by many to be the “great American Novel” because it depicts several parts of the “American Dream” including liberty and the fight for equality. One example of the depiction of liberty in the novel is when Bob Ewell gets a job. “The first thing was that Mr. Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties: he was the only man I heard of who was

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    the items inside the knothole in the Radley’s place. This scene is very important to me because it shows us how Boo Radley really is. We see him as someone who is unliked from people. They make him seem as someone who is unknown and scary. In this chapter‚ they make us see another side of Boo Radley we never would have seen. It starts off with Jem and Scout getting gifts from an unknown person in a knothole that is in a tree near the Radley’s place. At the end‚ we infer that it was probably Boo Radley

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    The book’s first chapter is about Dryden meeting Rachel. She runs into him early in the morning and asks “Yes or no‚ she said‚ I can’t wait any longer”(Lee 6). From how Patrick Lee describes the scene you can clearly tell Rachel does not have a lot of time to waste. She needs to get going as fast as possible. That is why I chose the song Time Bomb by All Time Low. The quote from the song is‚ “We were like a time bomb set into motion‚ we knew that we were destined to explode”. This quote works imperviously

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