They breeze through most events that take place in the school year, and have most of their stories taking place in the freedom and warmth that comes with the season. Scout takes the time to describe her feelings towards summer, saying to the reader, “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill,”(p 44) and directly after she narrates about the joy summer brings her, it is followed with more time movement, skipping to the start of the season, “The authorities released us early the last day of school.”(p 45) Prior to these quotes, she had been speaking briefly of the “remainder of [her] schooldays”(p 43) that year, skipping over most individual events that happened throughout that
They breeze through most events that take place in the school year, and have most of their stories taking place in the freedom and warmth that comes with the season. Scout takes the time to describe her feelings towards summer, saying to the reader, “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill,”(p 44) and directly after she narrates about the joy summer brings her, it is followed with more time movement, skipping to the start of the season, “The authorities released us early the last day of school.”(p 45) Prior to these quotes, she had been speaking briefly of the “remainder of [her] schooldays”(p 43) that year, skipping over most individual events that happened throughout that