Summary: Chapter 4
The rest of the school year passes grimly for Scout, whoendures a curriculum that moves too slowly and leaves her constantlyfrustrated in class. After school one day, she passes the RadleyPlace and sees some tinfoil sticking out of a knothole in one ofthe Radleys’ oak trees. Scout reaches into the knothole and discoverstwo pieces of chewing gum. She chews both pieces and tells Jem aboutit. He panics and makes her spit it out. On the last day of school,however, they find two old “Indian-head” pennies hidden in the sameknothole where Scout found the gum and decide to keep them.
Summer comes at last, school ends, and Dill returns toMaycomb. He, Scout, and Jem begin their games again. One of thefirst things they do is roll one another inside an old tire. OnScout’s turn, she rolls in front of the Radley steps, and Jem andScout panic. However, this incident gives Jem the idea for theirnext game: they will play “Boo Radley.” As the summer passes, theirgame becomes more complicated, until they are acting out an entireRadley family melodrama. Eventually, however, Atticus catches themand asks if their game has anything to do with the Radleys. Jemlies, and Atticus goes back into the house. The kids wonder if it’ssafe to play their game anymore.
Summary: Chapter 5
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Jem and Dill grow closer, and Scout begins to feel leftout of their friendship. As a result, she starts spending much ofher time with one of their neighbors: Miss Maudie Atkinson, a widowwith a talent for gardening and cake baking who was a childhoodfriend of Atticus’s brother, Jack. She tells Scout that Boo Radleyis still alive and it is her theory Boo is the victim of a harshfather (now deceased), a “foot-washing” Baptist who believed thatmost people are going to hell. Miss Maudie adds that Boo was alwayspolite and friendly as a child. She says that most of the rumorsabout him are false, but that if he wasn’t crazy as a boy, he probablyis by now.
Meanwhile, Jem and Dill plan to give a note to Boo invitinghim out to get ice cream with them. They try to stick the note ina window of the Radley Place with a fishing pole, but Atticus catches themand orders them to “stop tormenting that man” with either notesor the “Boo Radley” game.
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Summary: Chapter 6
Jem and Dill obey Atticus until Dill’s last day in Maycomb,when he and Jem plan to sneak over to the Radley Place and peekin through a loose shutter. Scout accompanies them, and they creeparound the house, peering in through various windows. Suddenly,they see the shadow of a man with a hat on and flee, hearing a shotgungo off behind them. They escape under the fence by the schoolyard,but Jem’s pants get caught on the fence, and he has to kick themoff in order to free himself.
The children return home, where they encountera collection of neighborhood adults, including Atticus, Miss Maudie,and Miss Stephanie Crawford, the neighborhood gossip. Miss Maudieinforms them that Mr. Nathan Radley shot at “a Negro” in his yard.Miss Stephanie adds that Mr. Radley is waiting outside with hisgun so he can shoot at the next sound he hears. When Atticus asksJem where his pants are, Dill interjects that he won Jem’s pantsin a game of strip poker. Alarmed, Atticus asks them if they wereplaying cards. Jem responds that they were just playing with matches.Late that night, Jem sneaks out to the Radley Place, and retrieveshis pants.