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 * Chapter 5-** In Chapter 5 Scout gets to know Miss Maudie, the widow from across the street, better because Jem and Dill don't include her in any of the games any more. Miss Maudie is a Baptist who loves to spend time outside in her garden, she and Scout talk for hours about many things but the most common thing they talk about it is the Radley's. Miss Maudie does not tell Scout anything she does not already know. Although, she is someone to talk to and Scout enjoys her company and her cakes that she makes. Scout gets fed up with her brother and Dill ingnoring her. So one day she makes them play with her. They say she can join them, but she does not know what she is getting into because they have decided to leave a note for Boo Radley. She has to watch one side while Dill watches the other and Jem leaves the note. Atticus sees them before they can finish. He stops them and tricks them into telling him what they are doing. The chapter ends with Jem saying he no longer wants to be a lawyer, which is what his father thought he wanted to do. Atticus does not hear him confess this.


 * Chapter 6-** Chaper 6 is about Dill's last night. Jem and Scout go over to Dill's house and they decide to go over to the Radley place again and look in the windows to see if they could see Boo Radley. The first window they looked in had curtins covering it. So they went to the back porch and tryed to look in but before they could look in Nathan Radley saw them and they ran. While they were running through the Radley garden Nathan fired his shot gun so the kids ran faster. After Dill and Scout got through the fence they realized that Jem got stuck and had to leave his pants tangled in the fence. After they got back to there house they went to the Radley's house where all the neighbors were so they would not be suspected, but they did not get Jem some new pants. They had to make up a story about about playing strip poker by the fishpond. Before Dills aunt could rip off Dill's head, Atticus sent them home to get him some pants, and to go to bed. Later that night Jem snuck out to get his pants because he does not want Atticus to find out about their previous adventure. He did not get caught and Scout didn't hear a shot gun and saw him come home safe. The chapter ends with Scout not hearing Jem for the rest of the night.


 * Chapter 7-** Capter 7 is about the tree with the hole in it that Scout had gotten stuff out of in the past. Scout and Jem would find things in the tree like candy, doles and other things. The gifts made their day. One day they decided to leave a note for whoever was leaving the gifts but when they went to put the note in the tree the hole was filled with cement. When Scout asked Nathan Radley about it he said the tree was sick and dying and that cement helps it stay standing. A few days later when Jem asked Atticus if the tree was sick Atticus said it looked fine but Mr. Radley new more about his own tree than they did. After that Jem stayed out on the front porch till night fall and when he came in Scout could tell he had been crying.

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SAHLI SAYS In the chapter 5 early on Miss Maudie tells Scout that Atticus is the same in the house as he is in the streets. What does this mean? Is this a compliment to Atticus or not? Why would Miss Maudie say this to Scout?