To Kill A Mockingbird: Chapter Summary

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Chapter five and six of bad bow was about as he grew older he learned more things. Chapter five of “bad boy” was about Walter learning new things, and some wasn’t very good lessons for example. when Walter and his friend “Johnny lightbourine, a boy close to Walter age suggested that we beat Richard Aisles , but then we read in the “Amsterdam news” about a black male who had been lynched by hanging. So we decided to hang Richard”(page 39) when Walter , and Johnny tried to hang him in the church basement ,but when the pastry caught them, he was shocked because where he come from that meant something more wore them they thought it would be . He also realized things that he really didn’t notice were his speech. “Mrs. Conway had us up reading as

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