He panics and makes her spit it out. Summer comes at last, school ends, and Dill returns to Maycomb. He, Scout, and Jem begin their games again. One of the first things they do is roll one another inside an old tire. Eventually, however, Atticus catches them and asks if their game has anything to do with the Radleys. Jem lies, and Atticus goes back into the house. Jem and Dill grow closer, and Scout begins to feel left out of their friendship.
Miss Maudie adds that Boo was always polite and friendly as a child. Meanwhile, Jem and Dill plan to give a note to Boo inviting him out to get ice cream with them.
Scout accompanies them, and they creep around the house, peering in through various windows. Suddenly, they see the shadow of a man with a hat on and flee, hearing a shotgun go off behind them.
The children return home, where they encounter a collection of neighborhood adults, including Atticus, Miss Maudie, and Miss Stephanie Crawford, the neighborhood gossip.
Sometimes, having someone else do the dirty work is less frightening — a belief that gives mob mentality its start. Dill admits almost gleefully that the whole plan is his idea, yet Jem is the person taking the greater risk. This mentality will play out in the adult world during Tom Robinson's trial.
At this point in the story, Scout's world is a safe place — her greatest fears are largely products of her own imagination. So even though she is terrified to pass by the Radley house, she takes the gum she finds in their tree.
Comically, Scout reports, "The gum looked fresh. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die I crammed it into my mouth. The children are beginning to understand this concept on an almost subconscious level. In comparing Miss Maudie to a seemingly more virtuous neighbor, Scout says, "she did not go about the neighborhood doing good, as did Miss Stephanie Crawford. Hand-in-hand with the issue of trust is that of truth. In the course of the novel, almost every character lies at some point.
Although most of the lies are meant to keep people out of trouble, some of these untruths will have dire consequences for the town as a whole. Scout is clear that "Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I ever heard. When Scout questions Miss Maudie about the Boo Radley myths, Miss Maudie states "'That is three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie Crawford,'" introducing Scout to the fact that "big ones" aren't limited to children.
Scout also begins to understand that sometimes people stretch the truth to get what they want. She even develops a playful romance with Dill when he asks her to marry him.
Scout and Dill continually sneak kisses when Jem is not looking and write each other letters when he leaves for his hometown of Meridian. Jem and Scout feel guilty because they were not perfect children and had at times disobeyed Atticus. Atticus praises Jem for the snow figure, but when he sees that it looks like Mr. Avery, he makes the children disguise it. Jem is able to make a snow person without enough snow to build one. At the beginning of Chapter 8, Mrs.
Radley dies, and the community hardly notices. Jem and Scout are both upset when they learn that Mrs. Radley died of natural causes. Boo Radley put the blanket on Scout because they were in front of the Radley house and he is the only one who could.
Atticus goes to the Maycomb jail in chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird to protect Tom Robinson from the Old Sarum bunch, which is a group of intoxicated men who plan on lynching Tom before the trial. Dill, in part, shows that sometimes things just aren't the way that they seem. Some homes aren't places where children want to be. Jem and Scout see their home as nearly idyllic, even though Scout has some questions about the way Atticus does things.
Initially, she can't figure out why Dill would run away from home. Remember me.
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