Maycomb endures the coldest winter in a very long time and everyone was doing what they could to stay warm. Atticus said “...the temperature registered sixteen, that it was the coldest night in his memory, and that our snowman outside was frozen solid” (91). Everybody bundled up and kept their fireplaces and stoves going in every room that had one. Late at night, Atticus woke up Jem and Scout to get them outside to see that Miss Maudie’s house is in flames. Scout and Jem stood down by the Radley house describing how “...Miss Maudie’s tin roof quelled the flames. Roaring, the house collapsed; fire gushed everywhere” (94). People in the neighborhood went into the burning house to try and gather some of Miss Maudie’s items. For example, Scout
