When Scout is six years old she meets Dill who is visiting his aunt there in Maycomb for Scout and her brother Jem play with Dill and try to figure out ways to catcha glimpse of their weird neighbor Boo Radley. Boo is mysterious to them because healways stays in the house and they have never seen him before.After the summer is over, school is about to start and Dill goes back home toMississippi. This is Scouts first year of school and on her first day she gets into troublewith the teacher because she already knows how to read and write, and gets into a fightwith Walter Cunningham. While walking home from school one day Scout finds a stick ofgum in a hole in a tree by the Radley’s yard. Later on Scout and Jem find more gifts in thetree, but then suddenly Mr. Radley fills the hole with cement and the gifts stop.After school is over Dill comes back to Maycomb. Scout, Jem, and Dill continueto try to get Boo to come out of the house, but with no luck. Then they decide that onDill’s last night in Maycomb they would crawl under the fence in the back yard of theRadley place and take a peek into one of the windows. This plan backfires when Mr.Radley comes out with a shot gun and fires into the air. While running away from Mr.Radley Jem gets his pants caught while trying to get back under the fence and has to slipout of them to get away. Later that night he goes back for his pants and find them foldedover the fence and roughly mended.That following winter Maycomb had its first snow since 1885. At first Scoutthought that the earth was ending, she had never seen snow before. Scout and Jem madea snow man that looked exactly like Mr. Avery. During that cold spell Mrs. Radley dies,and Miss Maudies house burns down. While Scout and Jem are standing in the streetkeeping their distance from the burning house, someone wraps a towel around Scout. Shedoesn’t even notice the towel until Atticus asks where she got it. They...
