To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1-5 Summary

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Our section starts off with Scout and Jem walking towards their school for a pageant organized by Mrs. Merriweather. They begin having a conversation, mainly about Boo Radley, when Cecil Jacobs jumps out and scares them. Cecil and Scout decided to go and enjoy the hello ween celebration before the pageant begins. They enjoyed the House of Horrors by the 7th grade, and also went and bought some of the Mrs. Judge Taylor's homemade candy. They were about to purchase a blob of taffy when they realized that the pageant was about to start. The auditorium was filled with people from all over the city of Maycomb. Mrs. Merriweather gave a 30 minute description of Colonel Maycomb’s it's humans. Listening to Mrs. Merriweather drone and the bass
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They believed it was the Cecil Jacobs who followed him into the dark to scare them again, but when they called out for him, they got no response. After calling for Cecil over and over again, they heard someone shuffle and drag their feet and soon start running towards them. Jem was the first to react, telling Scout to run. But Scout lost her balance and fell. From there, something tears at the metal part of her costume and she hears someone struggling behind her. This is when Jen comes and picks her up caring her all the way to the road when someone pulls him back. Scott heard a crunching sound and Jim screaming when she ran in the direction of where he was, laying her own trap. The aggressor pulled her in and squeezed the breath out of her. She couldn't move but suddenly the attacker was pulled backwards and flung on the ground, having Scout think that Jem was up. She called out for him getting no answer and that's when she realize that there was about four people under the tree. She went to feel who was and she felt someone with trousers, a belt buckle, buttons, a collar, a prickly stubble on the face and the smell of whiskey, it was not Jem. She began walking when she saw a man carrying Jem over his shoulder towards her home. She saw Atticus and this man take him inside and when she

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