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Summary Chapter 5 and 6
Chapter 5
Dil had promise to marry Scout but he neglected her and grew closer to Jem. They also never invited her to their conversation,in the end Scout made friends with her neighbour Miss Maudie Atkinson. Miss Maudie has a garden and spent alot of time there. She also tells Scout about a childhood friend of Atticus’s brother, Jack.She tells Scout that Boo Radley is still alive. His father a “foot-washing” Baptist who believed that most people are going to hell. He said that Miss Maudie flowers will also go to hell with her because she spent most of her time out in her garden rather than at home reading the bible.Miss Maudie adds that Boo was always polite and friendly as a child. She says that most of the rumors about him are false, but that if he wasn’t crazy as a boy, he probably is by now.
Meanwhile, Jem and Dill plan to give a note to Boo inviting him out to get ice cream with them. They try to stick the note in a window of the Radley Place with a fishing pole. But Atticus found out.
Chapter 6
Dilla and Jem planned to sneak to Boo Radley place, they simply wanted to peep in the window with the loose shutter . Scout stubbornly accompanies the boys to the place. Suddenly, they see the shadow of a man,after that they heard a shotgun. They escape under the fence by the schoolyard,Jem leaped off the porch but he's pants get caught on the fence, and he has to kick them off in order to free himself.
The children return home, where they encounter a collection of neighborhood adults at the Boo Radley front gate, including Atticus, Miss Maudie, and Miss Stephanie Crawford. Miss Maudie informs them that Mr. Nathan Radley shot at a Negro in his yard. Miss Stephanie add that Mr. Radleysays that if anybody sees a white nigger aroung thats the one . When Atticus asks Jem where his pants are, Dill interjects that he won Jem’s pants in a game of strip poker. Alarmed, Atticus asks them if they were playing cards. Jem responds that they were just playing with matches.
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