TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1ST SUMMARY)

1ST SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 1-8

PAGE 3-74 

        This story is about 9 years old Scout Finch, 13 years old Jem Finch, and Dill who are curious about Boo Radley who lives next door. Scout goes to school for the first time, but she gets punishment by her teacher’s misunderstanding on her first day. After school, she tells his father that she will not go to school anymore. After school one day, Scout passes the Radley’s house and finds two pieces of chewing gum in the tree. On her last day of school, Jem and Scout find two old Indian-head pennies hidden in the same tree. After the school ends, Drill returns to Maycomb and they play games. 

        
       As they get older, Scout starts to feel lonely from the friendship and spending her time with Ms. Maudie. Jem and Dill plan to give a letter to Boo, but Atticus catches them and makes them to stop. Until the last day for Dill in Maycomb, Jem and Dill go over to the Radley’s house. They see the shadow of a man with a hat and hearing a shotgun sound. After that, adults gather around them and saying Mr. Radley shot at a Negro in his yard.

         A few days later, the school begins. Scout is still unhappy for the school.  After school, Jem and Scout finds a ball of gray twine and two figures carved soap again in the same tree. The next day, they find that the hole is filled with cement. Jem and Dill ask Boo's brother that why Boo filled with cement. The reason was tree is dying, so Boo filled with cement. But they already found the chewing gum, a spelling bee medal and an old pocket watch. 

       In the winter, Jem and Scout play with snow. Ms. Maudies’ house is on fire on that night. So Atticus, Scout, and Jem help her. But Ms. Mausie’s house burns to the ground and has no idea who put the fire on. Jem thinks that Boo put the fire on and he tells the story about the hole. Ms.Maudie lost her whole house, but she is cheering herself. She was hating her old home and was planning to build a new house.