chapter+7

Quotes: "As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him." "The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - he tried to walk flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him, putting one foot behind the other. He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."

Chapter 7:
 * When Jem tells Scout about getting his trousers back he told her that when he took his trousers off they were all in a tangle but when he went back for them they were folded across the fence. He also told her that they were sewed up by someone.
 * Jem began to understand Boo Radley more than Scout because Boo sewed up Jems trousers and folded them. That made Jem realise that Boo isn’t the monster that everyone thought he was.
 * Jem doesn’t fear the gifts in the tree anymore. When Jem and Scout walk home from school they always go to the knot-hole to see what’s inside waiting for them, Jem sees it as getting gifts from someone.
 * The children are prevented to put the letter in to the knot -hole because the knot -hole was filled with cement. Jem asked Mr Radley if he had put the cement in the knot-hole, Mr Radley said he did and that he did it because the tree is sick. But I think he really did it because Boo was sending gifts through the knot -hole to Jem and Scout.

Jem tells Scout that he found his pants fixed and hung neatly over the fence. When they come home from school that day, they found another present hidden in the knot-hole it was a ball of gray twine. They leave it there for a few days, but no one takes it, so they claim it for themselves. Scout is as unhappy in second grade, but Jem promises her that school gets better. Late that fall, another present appears in the knot-hole. It was two dolls carved in soap that looked like Scout and Jem. Before the dolls there was chewing gum, a spelling bee medal, and an old pocket watch in the knot-hole. The next day, Jem and Scout find that the knot-hole has been filled with cement. When Jem asks Mr. Radley about the knot-hole Mr. Radley says that he plugged the knothole because the tree is dying.