To kill a mockinkingbird ch 9-11
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The Mockingbird
In chapter one, it introduces the cast from the book "How to Kill a Mockingbird." The
actresses that were presented were a narrator named Scout, her father Atticus Finch, her older
brother Jem, their housekeeper Calpurnia and a young boy named Dill. Atticus is a successful
lawyer. Atticus makes a substantial living in Maycomb in the middle of the Great Depression. He
lives with Jem and Scout on Maycomb’s main residential street. In the book, they introduced a
cook named Calpurnia. She helps to raise children and maintains the house clean. Atticus’s wife
died when Scout was only two years old. Scout does not remember her mom that well. Jem was
four years old when his mother passed away.
In chapter two, Scout is going to school for the first time. Scout had a teacher named
Miss Caroline Fisher. She is not so good with kids because she treats them poorly and does not
get the respect she deserves. Miss Caroline concludes that Atticus must teach Scout to read and
make Scout feel guilty for being educated. Scout tells Jem about Miss Caroline, but Jem says that
she is just trying to test her new method of teaching. When Scout attempts to explain these
circumstances, Miss Caroline does not understand and gets frustrated. Her frustrations made her
slap Scout’s hand with a ruler.
In chapter three, Scout rubbed Walter's nose in the dirt for getting her in trouble. Jem
intervenes and invites Walter to lunch. When Walter gets asked in their house Walter puts
molasses all over his meat and vegetables, Scout’s got to a discussion. Ms. Calpurnia calls her
into the kitchen and scolds her and slaps her as she returns to the dining room. Scout tells Atticus
that she is not feeling well and that she does not want to go to school anymore. Atticus tells
Scout that the law requires that she has to go to school, but he still promises to keep reading to
her, as long as she does not tell her teacher about it.
In chapter 4, Scout passes the Radley Place, and she notices tinfoil peeking out of a hole
in one of the Radley’s large oak trees. Scout discovers two pieces of chewing gum. She eats both
of them and goes on to tell Jem. Jem panics and makes her spit it out. On the last day of school,
they found two old pennies hidden in the same knothole that Scout had found the gum they were
looking for and kept them. Summer had come, and Dill came back to Maycomb. They started to
play a game and Scout rolls in front of the Radley steps. The incident gives Jem an idea for the
next game that is called “Boo Radley.” The game they were playing became more complicated
than they thought. Atticus catches them and asks the kids if the game has to do anything with the
Radleys, Jem lied and says no. Atticus goes inside, and the kids think if it’s safe to play their
game anymore.
In Chapter 5, Jem and Dill become closer and Scout becomes more left out. She starts to
hang out with their neighbors Miss Maudie Atkinson, who is a widow and has a talent of
gardening and cake baking and a childhood friend of Atticus's brother, Jack. She tells Scout that
Boo Radley is still alive. Miss Maudie says that Boo has always been polite and friendly as a
child. She says that the rumors about him may not be true, but many people change growing up.
Jem and Dill had the plan to invite Boo to go out to get ice cream with them. They had tried to
stick a note in the window with a fishing pole, but Atticus had caught them and told them “stop
tormenting that man.”
Chapter 6, Jem and Dill had obeyed Atticus until Dill’s last day in Maycomb. Dill and
Jem planned to sneak over to the Radley place and peek through a loose shutter. They see a man
shadow with a hat on and flee, hearing a gunshot go off behind them. They began to escape
under the fence by the schoolyard. Jems pants get caught on the fence, and he has to kick them
off to be free. When they had returned home to some group of adults in the neighborhood,
including attics where there, they gossip about what was happening about the gunshot.
In chapter 7, Jem was in a bad mood for a week, and Scout starts second grade. Just as
bad as the first grade was, Jem finally told Scout what happened when he went back to the
Radley House. They passed by the knothole tree, they saw a ball of twine resting inside it. Scout
wanted to take it, but Jem thinks it might be someone’s hiding spot. A few months later, the
knothole holds two figures carved out of soap that bears a striking resemblance to Scout and
Jem. Scout thinks that it was a voodoo doll and throws them on the ground, but Jem rescues
them. Scout and Jem decided to write a letter to their secret benefactor. But then the next day,
they find the knothole that has been filled with cement. Jem asks Mr. Nathan why and Mr.
Nathan says that trees are sick and the adhesive is an attempt to cure it. Jem asks Atticus if Mr.
Nathan was telling the truth. But, Atticus says that it looks healthy to him.
In chapter 8, Maycomb gets a season he hasn't seen in a while that is winter. Mrs. Radley
dies, and Atticus goes to pay his condolences at the Radleys. When he came back Jem and Scout
pounced on him and asked if he had seen Boo in the flesh. He didn’t want him. Atticus wakes
Scout in the middle of the night because Miss Maudie’s house next door was on fire. Atticus
notices that Scout is wrapped in a blanket and that she didn’t have it when she left home. Scout
says that she stayed right where he told her to in front of the Radley Place.
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In chapter 9, Scout was ready to fight Cecil Jacobs on the Schoolyard when he says that
her father defends the N-word. When Scout asks Atticus about it, he says not to mention the
N-word. Atticus tries to explain to Scout the complexities of race relations in Maycomb. Scout
cusses while Uncle Jack’s around, and later he tells her that she shouldn’t do that. Jem had
abandoned his sister to schmooze with the adults, leaving Scout to deal with the dreaded Francis
whose main problem so far seems to be liking a boring Christmas present. Francis quotes Aunt
Alexandra, calling Atticus an “N-love” and says “that he had ruined the family.” Francis gets in
trouble with Uncle Jack. Scout is going to get a glass of water when she overheard Uncle Jack
and Atticus talking. Atticus says that Scout needs to learn to control her temper because things
are only going to get harder. He also says that he’d instead not have taken the case, but once it
was offered to him, he couldn’t refuse it in good conscience. Atticus knew that Scout was
hearing their conversation and told her to go to bed and later on she knew that he saw her
eavesdropping and she thinks that he wanted her to listen to them talking.
In chapter 10, There is a quote that “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for
us to enjoy…. But sings their hearts for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.”
One day in town a mad dog appears, wandering down the main street toward the Finches house.
Heck had brought a rifle and asked Atticus to shoot the animal. Jem and Scout were amazed that
their father agreed to it. Atticus shot the dog with only one shot. Miss Maudie tell Jem and Scout
that, when he was young, Atticus was the best shot in the country. Scout wanted to brag about it,
but Jem tells her to keep it a secret because Atticus wanted to know he would’ve said them.
In Chapter 11, Mrs. Dubose, a cantankerous old lady who always shouts at Jem and
Scout as they pass by. Atticus warns Jem to be a gentleman to her because she was a sick old
lady, but one day she tells Scout and Jem was only “N-and trash he works for” and Jem lost his
temper. Jem destroys all of Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes. Jem got a punishment because he did
that so now he must go to her every day for a month and read to her. Mrs. Dubose dies a little
more than a month after Jem’s punishment ends. Atticus tells Jem that she was addicted to
morphine and that the reading was part of her successful effort to combat this addiction. Atticus
gives Jem a box that Mrs. Dubose had given her maid for Jem; in it lies a single white camellia.