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.
A wide flat field is "finer” than rugged terrain for it can be tilled easily to produce wheat and so represents good white bread. A small thatched cottage, which a modern viewer might consider pretty, will be considered unattractive by an Elizabethan traveler, for cottagers are generally poor
