Chapters 5 & 6

  At the beginning of ¨To Kill a Mockingbird¨ starts with Jem and Dill getting close and changing all the names of the game to make things less obvious. Scout then feels like a third wheel and even tries to get their attention but it doesn't work and they start calling her a girl when she actually is a girl. Then Scout starts to talk to Miss Maudie which is an elderly neighbor and she basically lets the kids play in her yard and eat her grapes. She is also known as a very good baker and whenever she bakes she bakes individual cakes for the kids. She is a widow and also enjoys being outside with her plants. Then they start to gossip about another neighbor Boo Radley which never comes out and they are always interested in nothing if he is still alive. Miss Maudie mentions that the Radleys´ are foot washers which means they take religion way to serious and that everything enjoyable for them is wrong. Then Jem and Dill are planning something and Scout finds that they want to leave a note with a fishing pole through the gutters asking Boo what he does all day. When they do that Atticus finds out and tells them to stop and to leave the Radleys´ alone. he then tricks Jem into telling the truth and decides that he doesn't want to be a lawyer like Atticus.
   In chapter 6, it starts of being the last day of summer and they want to go hang out at Miss Rachel´s fish pool. they meet up there and they start talking about how they are going to miss Dill when he leaves. The next day Scout tells a story about how Mr. Avery peed from his front porch and of course Dill and Jem try to do the same thing which Scout obviously couldn't participate. Then afterward Scout knows something is up when Dill walks toward the Radley house, They try to take a look through the window since it is dark and that no one can see them, Scout doesn't want to go along but since they keep teasing her she went along anyway. They make their way through the yard trying to find a way to look in but them a shadow could be seen and they all see it. All of a sudden a shot gun goes on and they all duck, they try to get out. Then Jem gets stuck and his pants come off, he has to come out like that. So they all go up to the talking neighbors Mr. Radley claims she shot in the air due to a black man in his yard. We don´t know why exactly he assumed he was black I guess just racism, but that claim falls short when they see Jem without his pants. They don´t get in trouble because they change the subject by bringing up gambling. At the end Jem goes back for his pants so he wont get in anymore trouble.