Chapter 1 -The narrator is Scout Finch. -The setting is in Maycomb, Alabama. -Atticus is the father and his wife died while Scout was two years old. -Dill comes over the play during the summer with Scout and Jem. -They are interested in Boo Radley and his house. -The Radley house is mysterious because no one has ever entered it.
Chapter 2 -Scout hates her first year of school because her teacher wont let her read at home. -Scout gets in trouble for standing up for Walter Cunningham. -The teacher, Miss Caroline, tried to give Walter a quarter, but he didn't take it because he knew that he would have to repay her, but he can't.
Chapter 3 -Jem invites Walter to eat lunch at his house with Scout. -Burris Ewell is in the same class as Scout and Walter but only comes to school the first day.
Chapter 4 -Scout and Jem find prizes in a knothole next to the Radley's, so they take them. -The kids start playing a game where they impersonate Boo Radley, and this game ended due to Atticus finding out about it.
Chapter 5 -The kids try and slip a note through the Radley house window, but they get caught by Atticus.
Chapter 6 -It is Dill's last day in Maycomb, so the kids try and enter the Radley's backyard. -They enter it and go on the back porch until they hear a shotgun. -The kids start to run, but Jem's pants get caught on the fence, so he takes them off to run. -When Jem comes back to pick them up, they are folded nicely on the fence.
Chapter 7 -The prizes keep appearing everyday, so they get curious until the knothole gets cemented by Nathan Radley.
Chapter 8 -It is snowing in Maycomb, so the kids make a snowman that looks like Mr. Avery. -Ms. Maudie's house catches on fire, so the whole town stops the fire. -The kids were watching the house burn near the Radley house. -Scout discovers that someone put a blanket over her shoulders, and she thinks that it was Boo.
Chapter 9 -Atticus is chosen to defend Tom Robinson, and he accepts. -Everybody at school calls him a n****-lover, but Scout made a promise that she won't punch anyone. -Uncle Jack, Aunt Alexandra, and Francis come over for dinner. -Francis calls Atticus a n****-lover, and Scout punches him.
Chapter 10 -Atticus gets Jem and Scout air rifles for Christmas, and he tells them that it is a sin to kill mockingbirds. -There is a rabid dog on the Finch's street, so Atticus shoots it.
Not enough attention has been paid to the risks taken by Sherpas, who perform dangerous work for relatively low pay, and their deaths aren’t being given the same weight in the media as the Western climbers who hire them.
What is memorable about this essay is that the author includes the number sixteen, which is the number of Sherpa deaths that he mentions in the first paragraph.
