Summarizer Chapter 6-11

My english class is now well on our way through the adventure of Jem, Scout, Atticus and all their good friends and neighbors.
This section starts off with Jem and Scout in their small town of Maycomb. They take a walk on over to Ms. Maudies house to say farewell to their good friend Dill Harris. Dill, Jem, and Scout sneak over to the Radley house to take a look around. In a great commotion the kids run out through the back fence to see whats going on out front. On the way Jem loses his pants in the fence and runs out front. Later that night he returned to get them and they were waiting for him, hanging on the fence, all stitched up. Some time goes on past this and the kids find a ball of twine, a pocket watch, some more gum, and two carvings made out of soap that look like the kids. After they find these things Mr. Radley fills in the tree with concrete. During school Scout comes across several problems with kids at school due the that fact that people call her father "a nigger lover." When they go to the family homestead they hear the same talk of how Scouts father is nothing good and that he is bringing the Finch name down. Jem saves up some money and buys a locomotive for himself and buys his sister a baton. Jem uses the baton to ruin Mrs. Dubose's flowers and plants. For his punishemnt Jem is forced to go read to her. After five weeks of reading to her he is allowed to stop. Roughly one month later Mrs. Dubose passes away.

There are many things that my group noticed in chapters 6-11. We talked about how we  made a lot of different connections about the way things happened in the book and how they may have happened now in our day and age. We also spoke about the different symbolism that is shown through all the previously mentioned items that are found in the tree. I also found it rather interesting the amount of symbolism that is happening when Mr. Radley fills the tree's hole full of concrete. Over all we had a really good sturdy discussion over these chapters.

What I learned through all of the discussion that we had was really important. I learned that nothing in the books really relates to me so far but that it does relate to other people and therefore I think it is very important to realize that when Scout or Jem get into an arguement with their father or when they have troubles at school it is just like us and that even if someone else doesn't not understand how it affects people it really does and their adventures can help us to understand one another and we can learn from society to be acceptive of other people for who they are. When Scout and Jem go to church with Calpurnia they see that other people do things differently than they might but we are all people and there is no need for discrimination or hate.