Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home- I declare to the Lord you're getting more like a girl every day!
Chapter 7
“As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it”.
Chapter 8
“Jem put his arm around me. “Hush, Scout,” he said. “It ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when.”
Chapter 9
“You just hold your head high and keep your fists down… try fighting with your head for a change”.
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 12
Chapter 11
Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Jem reopened Ivanhoe and began reading. Itried to keep up with him, but he read too fast. When Jem came to a word hedidn’t know, he skipped it, but Mrs. Dubose would catch him and make him spellit out. Jem read for perhaps twenty minutes, during which time I looked at thesoot-stained mantelpiece, out the window, anywhere to keep from looking at her.As he read along,
Chapter 12
Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetitewas appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consultedAtticus: “Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?” Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I mustbe patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.