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- September arrives, and Dill leaves Maycomb to return to the town of Meridian. Scout, meanwhile, prepares to go to school for the first time, an event that she has been eagerly anticipating. Once she is finally at school, however, she finds that her teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, deals poorly with children. When Miss Caroline concludes that Atticus must have taught Scoutto read, she becomes very displeased and makes Scout feel guilty for being educated. At recess, Scout complains to Jem, but Jem says that Miss Caroline is just trying out a new method of teaching.
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- At lunch, Scout rubs Walter’s nose in the dirt for getting her in trouble, but Jem intervenes and invites Walter to lunch. At the Finch house, Walter and Atticus discuss farm conditions “like two men,” and Walter puts molasses all over his meat and vegetables. Back at school, Miss Caroline becomes terrified when a tiny bug, or “cootie,” crawls out of a boy’s hair. The boy is Burris Ewell, a member of the Ewell clan, which is even poorer and less respectable than the Cunningham clan. In fact, Burris only comes to school the first day of every school year, making a token appearance to avoid trouble with the law.
- Scout stop it!
- The rest of the school year passes grimly for Scout.After school one day, she passes the Radley Place and sees some tinfoil sticking out of a knothole in one of the Radleys’ oak trees. Scout reaches into the knothole and discovers two pieces of chewing gum. She chews both pieces and tells Jem about it. 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 same knothole where Scout found the gum and decide to keep them.Summer comes at last, school ends, and Dill returns to Maycomb. He, Scout, and Jem begin their games again. One of the first things they do is roll one another inside an old tire. On Scout’s turn, she rolls in front of the Radley steps, and Jem and Scout panic. However, this incident gives Jem the idea for their next game: they will play “Boo Radley.” As the summer passes, their game becomes more complicated, until they are acting out an entire Radley family melodrama. Eventually, however, Atticus catches them and asks if their game has anything to do with the Radleys. Jem lies, and Atticus goes back into the house. The kids wonder if it’s safe to play their game anymore.
- Jem and Dill grow closer, andScout begins to feel left out of their friendship. As a result, she starts spendingmuch of her time with one of their neighbors: Miss Maudie Atkinson, a widowwith a talent for gardening and cake baking who was a childhood friend ofAtticus’s brother, Jack. She tells Scout that Boo Radley is still alive and itis her theory Boo is the victim of a harsh father (now deceased), a“foot-washing” Baptist who believed that most people are going to hell. MissMaudie adds that Boo was always polite and friendly as a child. She says thatmost 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 Booinviting him out to get ice cream with them. They try to stick the note in awindow of the Radley Place with a fishing pole, but Atticus catches them andorders them to “stop tormenting that man” with either notes or the “Boo Radley”game.
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