To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1-15

In chapter 11 Mrs.Dubose an old sick lady who always sits on the porch of her house one day told Jem and Scout that Atticus isn’t any better than “the “niggers and trash he works for,” and Jem loses his temper. Thus Jem takes Scout baton which he bought for her and destroys Mrs.Dubose’s camellia bushes. When Atticus found out as punishment Mrs.Dubose told Jem must go to her house every day for a month and read to her and Atticus agreed. Scout comes along with Jem everyday and each session they are reading it gets longer. Mrs. Dubose dies a little more than a month after. Atticus tells Jem that Mrs.Dubose was addicted to morphine and that Jem’s reading helped her addiction lower down. In chapter 12 Jem was already twelve years old and tells Scout to stop bothering him and act like a girl. Dill doesn’t come that summer which disappointed Scout. Also Atticus who is a member of the state legislature is called into session which forces Atticus to go to the state capital everyday for two weeks. Calpurnia decides to take Jem and Scout to her church a “colored” church that sunday Atticus was gone. One woman at the Church Lula, criticizes Calpurnia for bringing white children to church seeing it was a “colored church” though it was friendly Reverend Sykes welcomed them, saying that everyone knows their father. Scout also learns while

Everyone makes an appearance in the courtroom, from Miss Stephanie Crawford to Mr. Dolphus Raymond, a wealthy eccentric who owns land on a river bank, lives near the county line, is involved with a black woman, and has mulatto children. The crowd appears to have lunch in the town square. Jem, Scout, and Dill wait for most the crowd to leave so they can slip in the back. However, because they wait too long, they succeed in getting seats only when Reverend Sykes lets them sit in the balcony where black people are required to sit in order to watch the