To Kill a Mockingbird #2 summary

Page 70-148 chapter 8-13

Maycomb just begins a real winter during the Christmas time of the year.  Also there’s a light snow fall, so school closes because of this rare thing. Jem and Scout take the as much snow as they can from Miss Maudie’s yard to make a snow man. During that night Atticus wakes Scout up to help him do some of his work but then when Scout went out of the street Miss Maudie’s house was on fire. Everybody wakes up just to help save as much furniture as they can for Miss Maudie and the fire-helper of the town and the nearby town comes to help. During that busy moment someone put a blanket on Scout’s, but when anybody ask her about that she has no idea about who puts it on her. This could refer back to the previous situation that Scout and Jem found the strange presents, so they are now thinking that everything was from Boo Radley. In the next mornig Miss Maudie was okay with the loss of her house now.

Atticus has been asked to defend Tom Robinson or a nigga who got caught because he rapes a white girl. So Scout’s friend called Atticus as a Scout Finch’s daddy defends niggers, Scout was angry and she early had a fight with that friend. Atticus takes Scout and Jem to visit the Finchs, there Scout and Jem met Francis or her cousin which she considered him as the most boring boy she has ever met. He says bad things to Scout and he also says bad things about Atticus, and of course Scout couldn’t take it, she fought with Francis and the elders believe that Francis is a good boy not Scout or Jem. Scout heard a conversation between her dad and her uncle it was about Tom Robinson that he is not a bad guy that Atticus shouldn’t defend.

Atticus gave Scout and Jem an air rifle they’re allowed to shoot any birds they want but not Mocking birds because. Atticus said killing Mokcing birds is a sin because they do not harms, they did nothing except making nice songs for everyone. Atticus is actually an old father comparing any fathers of Scout and Jem friends. Atticus is a lawyer so he works in the office and he only read he did not go for hunting, fishing, shooting or anything like other men in the town. One day Atticus’s friend told him to shoot an old dog, he did it and that was the first time that Scout and Jem know that their father could do such things like this. Miss Maudie told Jem and Scout that Atticus was actually good at shooting when he was a teenager, then Jem decided to keep that as a secret because he thinks that is his father wanted them to know about this he would let them know it.

There’s a house of Miss Dubose in the town, Miss Dubose is not really a nice woman she is old and she is sick. Atticus has always told Jem not to fight with anybody, but one day when Miss Dubose tells Jem that his father is not any better than the niggers and the trash he works for. Jem loses his temper; he destroys all of her camellia bushes. Jem got punished by going to Miss Dubose house every day and read a story to her for a month. Miss Dubose gradually dies during the time, when she died she has given a single white camellia to Jem also.

Then Jem grew up and he is now 12,  Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to the black-people church. This thing makes both of them learns about the black people and they are learning the differences of the black people with the white people. By the time they went back to their house, they met Aunt Alexandra. She will be living with the kids for a while. Aunt Alexandra is kind of proud of being the Finch and she came here to spend time with the kids and talking about the families in this Maycomb County. She has been explaining about the Finch’s generation by generation. Scout and Jem did not as proud as they are supposed to be, they got lectured by Atticus, he didn’t do anything much but Scout cried.