To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 5 Analysis

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As chapter 5 starts, Scout being the sane one convinces Jem to not play the Radley game as much. Both, Jem and Scout often talk to their neighbor Miss Maudie, who at times gives helpful advice to them. Later Atticus discovers the Radley game and orders Jem, Scout, and Dill to stop playing the game. After that Jem and Dill convince Scout to come with them to look inside of the Radley house. They end up running away, later to escape suspicion they claim they were playing with matches. After that Scout starts second grade, throughout the year Scout and Jem find a knothole that contains a ball of twine and 2 figures carved out of soap, they suspect that the knothole belonged to Boo Radley. For the first time since 1885 it snows in Maycomb and a

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