Chapter+7

Ariel Aldrin Spencer Breckenridge =** __ CHAPTER 7 __ **=

The story begins a day after Jem had gone back to the Radley’s house to retrieve his missing pants. As usual the story is narrated by our favorite protagonist, Scout. The story starts out by Scout explaining to us the make up of Jem and his emotions, telling us that he gets easily annoyed. A few days after the Radley’s accident, Jem comes up to Scout and tells her what had really bothered him. He tells her that someone had read Jem’s mind, patching and folding the pants, placing it on the fence ready to be taken.
 * __ Plot: __**

One day walking home after school though, Jem and Scout spot something in their tree hole. Two soaps with their faces carved into it. They are caught off guard and are now suspicious of who had made the carvings. As the days went by, they continued finding treasures in their hiding place -- gum, a medal and a fancy pocket watch that sadly does not work anymore.

After a while, the two decide that they should write a letter thanking the mystery gift giver through a letter placed in the tree. Unfortunately, the day when they had agreed to deposit the letter, they are surprised to find cement in the tree hole where their previous treasure chest had been before. They ask Nathan Radley his purpose for cementing the tree hole and find out that his response “tree’s dying you plug ‘em with cement when they’re sick” might have been thought up as oppose to the real reason he had forever closed their gift hole.


 * __ Setting: __** School, The Tree near the Radley’s house, The Finch’s house

Jem: Jem has just started the sixth grade and says he’s enjoying it and now learning lessons of value. Jem is becoming more solitary and no longer shares every though he has with Scout and instead tries to figure it out in his own mind. Jem is getting more mature, though he cries at the end of this chapter for an unexplained reason.
 * __ Character Profiles: __**

Scout: Scout enters the second grade and continues her distaste for school, but she likes the fact that she and Jem can walk home together at the same time.

Boo Radley: It is suggested in this chapter that Boo Radly folded and mended Jems pants, making him more suspicious and less evil than previously perceived.

- Breeches - Gnats
 * __ Photobanks of Items Mentioned: __**

- Twine - Knot Hole - Pocket Watch

- Spelling Medal

- A Sick Tree


 * __ Vocabulary: __**
 * 1) Appeal: to make a serious or urgent request
 * 2) Perpetual: never ending
 * 3) Trotting: to proceed at a pace faster than a walk
 * 4) Crude: in a natural or raw state
 * 5) Hoodooing: voodoo/ witch craft
 * 6) Whittles: to cut into an object repetitively by cutting small pieces from it (usually wood)
 * 7) Tarnished: to lose luster (a gently glow)
 * 8) Ascertaining: to find out something for certain/ to make sure of
 * 9) Rendered: to provide
 * 10) Vigil: staying awake during the normal sleeping time
 * 11) Yonder: some distance in the direction indicated
 * 12) Honed: to sharpen with a whetstone