Chapter+7

Jem continues to think about the events that occurred in the Radley house as he returns to school. Scout hasn’t made a big deal about his moodiness as she can tell why he was so scared and annoyed. The year starts out peculiarly, it’s the start of fall and instead of red leaves covering the floor, it snows causing eight days of no-school. Scout starts second grade and as they walk back and forth from school every day, they notice a knot hole (a hollow hole in a tree trunk) where “presents” are being left. At first the siblings think it is someone’s lost and found items but they soon realize the gifts are intended for them. It treats them well by giving them: twin, soap carvings of a boy and girl, chewing gum, a spelling medal, pocket watch and knife. The soap carvings that look like them help to reassure Jem and Scout, who the items are intended for. Jem has reason to believe that Boo Radley has been the one placing the gifts in the knothole, so Jem and Scout try to send Boo a thank you note by leaving it in the knothole, but when they get there they notice the tree has been filled with cement.
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**Trotting. ** -Definition: A gait of a person, faster than a walk; a jog -Example: “Jem and I were trotting in our orbit one mild October afternoon when our knot hole stopped us again.”

**Crude. ** - Definition: Not finished/lacking refinement; undisguised; blunt. -Example: “One was the figure of a boy and the other wore a crude dress.”

**Embalming. ** -Definition: To treat (a corpse) with preservatives in order to prevent decay -Example: “I said if they did I didn’t see how they god 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?”

**Ascertaining. ** -Definition: To make certain, definite, and precise -Example: “When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.”

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Vigil. **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Definition: surveillance; ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Example: “Next day Jem repeated his vigil and was rewarded.”

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Rendered. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">- Definition: To give what is due or owed, To surrender or relinquish; yield. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;">-Example: “One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that – chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless.”

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Gnats. ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Definition: tiny flying insects. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Example: “Jem waved my words away as if fanning gnats”.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Perpetual. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Definition: continuing forever, everlasting. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Example: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">“I said if they did I didn’t see how they god 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?”

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Yielded. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Definition: To give over possession of, showed. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Example: “The following week the knot-hole yielded a tarnished medal.”

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tarnished. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Definition: become discolored <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Example: “The following week the knot-hole yielded a tarnished medal.”

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cleaved. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-Definition: To pierce or penetrate, To split or separate. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Example: “One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that – chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless”

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">CHARACTER PROFILES **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">J ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">ean Louise (Scout) Finch – **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The book is in the perspective of Scout and she is the “I”. Scout is a tomboy who likes to play with her older brother, Jem, during the summer. They re-enact movies and play in the garden but Dill, their newest addition to the group, thinks otherwise and wants to go see the Radley House. Scout is against it because she doesn’t want them to get hurt. Dill says they are engaged and she kind of likes it, feeling wanted and needed. She is very smart for her grade because her father (Atticus) taught her to read at such a young age. In a way, you could say that Scout thinks she is old and mature when she is very little and has to be disciplined.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">J ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">eremy (Jem) Finch – **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Jem Finch is a few years older than Scout but still plays with her during the summer. When Scout starts school he makes clear rules that they are not allowed to associate, this is u most important thing to him and he has strong respect and morals which he always abides to. He is the type of man that would say ‘learn from your mistakes’.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Dill – **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Dill is a small boy, Scouts age, who stays with Miss Rachel (a neighbor of the Finch’s) during the summer. He has huge, crazy ideas and always makes the summer fun. Sometimes his plans get them in trouble; his curiosity for the Radley House sparked plans that were dangerous and scary. He is “engaged” to Scout and he treats Jem as his best friend. Every summer, Jem and Scout anticipate Dill’s arrival.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">PHOTO BANK: **
 * <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 4.35pt; padding-left: 7.95pt; padding-right: 7.95pt; padding-top: 4.35pt;"> The “Haunted” Boo Radley Household ||
 * <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 4.35pt; padding-left: 7.95pt; padding-right: 7.95pt; padding-top: 4.35pt;"> Dill’s Poorly Sewn Pants ||
 * <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 4.35pt; padding-left: 7.95pt; padding-right: 7.95pt; padding-top: 4.35pt;"> Gray Twine & a Soap Carving of a Boy and Girl, Two of the Mysterious Presents Found in the Tree Hole ||


 * <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 4.35pt; padding-left: 7.95pt; padding-right: 7.95pt; padding-top: 4.35pt;"> A Sibling Portrait of Jem and Scout in Their Early Childhood ||


 * <span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 4.35pt; padding-left: 7.95pt; padding-right: 7.95pt; padding-top: 4.35pt;"> The Knothole Where Jem and Scout Finds Mysterious Gifts ||

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Setting: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Chapter 7 occurs in primarily two places; Jem and Scouts Maycomb Public School where they now start the 2nd grade. Scout continues to be negative towards school and feels just as unhappy as she was in 1st grade. The other scene taken place in chapter 7 is the knothole area where the presents were found, the chapter ends as Mr. Nathan Radley closes the knothole with cement saying that the tree is dying.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">-Maycomb Public School: **