Tuesday, November 13, 2012

To Kill a Mockingbird #1 summary

Page 1-70, chapter 1-8

                    This story is called To Kill a Mockingbird. The story sets in a small county called Maycomb county, Maycomb was an old town. The girl who is the narrator in this stiry is Scout Finch, she is the main character. She lives with her brother, Jem Finch and her father Atticus Finch, her father is a lawyer. During the time Scout's neighbor come to live with them. Scout go to school with her brother and Dill, her neighbor. In this Maycomb county, there are many family who treats their kids differently. There's a new teacher in the school where all the kids in Maycomb studied. the teacher is new so she doesn't really know much about the county and all the families. The teacher even got bullied by the bad kids, she even cried because of them. So this story is mostly about showing the life in the small village.
                  Across the street where Scout lives, there's a house, kind of like the horror house for the kids. It is the Radley's house, everyone has been saying that the Radleys are very unsocial, they do not really want to communicate with anybody. The son of the Radley name was Arthur Radley, he has not been out of the house for many years also the rumors of him had been told for many years too. Arthur Radley didnt come out of the house because his father didn't let and also bacause of his disorders features. The kids in the village has a bad picture of who Arthur Radley is. The kids pictured him as a monster, all kids are scared of him, also all the kids called him as Boo Radley. The kids pictured him that he eats cats and rottens and also he eats every kids he could catches. So they were so frightened and everytime when the kids go to school they sldo need to pass the house so most of them run pass the house. They didnt really want to walk pass it or see it.
               Miss Stephanie is a woman in the maycomb county that knows about the Radley house the most, she told the kids that Arther Radley or Boo Radley is not a bad person he is actually a nice person. So Scout, Jem and Dill or her neighbor wanted to prove that Boo Radley is not a bad guy. The kids even write a letter for him, the kids wanted to meet him and have a chat with him. Atticus found out first so they didnt send the letter to him. Scout went into the house once it was quiet awful for her. Then during one night scout, Jem and Dill went out of the house at 2 am. They climbed across the wall to enter the Radley house. It was awful they saw many scary thungs and also the scary shadows. They also heard a gun shot so the kids were frightened. They quickly ran out of the house and met Atticus and Miss Stephanie. The history of the Radley house stil remain a secret to them.

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