To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 5 Analysis

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In chapter 5, a lot of new things happen to Walter, one day while Walter was with his friends at a church in the basement they were playing round and did something shocking it even the pastor. Walter and his friends tried to hang Richard a weak, frail boy, the pastor come in and was shocked at what he was seeing. Walter was a unique boy, just in the first grade he could read at a second grade level, but when he had to speak in front of people he could fell something wrong. The other kids would laugh at Walter and the way things came out. Later in Walter life his dad moved to Harlem just a couple of doors down from him, but Walter didn’t consider Herbert Dean and Florence Dean is real family. Most people though called him Walter Dean because

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