SUMMARY (first chapter)

At the beginning of the first chapter of To kill a Mockingbird,  two characters are introduced, the protagonist called Scout and her brother Jem. Scout and Jem are out of school due to the time being set in the summer holidays, this is when they meet another character, Dill. Jem, Scout and Dill become friends over time and begin to talk about an urban myth of a person called Boo Radley who lives next door. Boo is described as having “a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” I believe that the significant event in this chapter is the dare that Jem has to undertake in which he touches the Radley’s house in order to lure of Boo.

-Daniel Alvarado