To Kill a Mockingbird - Key Events

In the first chapter the main event that occurs is that Scout and Jem meet Dill, Dill then explains to them about Dracula and how he saw it a the movies. The children were astonished as theyd never seen a movie before like this, this links back to innocence and also small town life.

This is when we first see a form of prejudice in the book. The form of prejudice is in class distinction, this is when scout says 'miss his a cunnigham' this family was quite poor and everyone knew that they would not take money they could not payback therefore he would not touch the teachers rubish and everyone knew why was because he was of a lower class.

In chapter three we first see a form of prejudice when Walter Cunningham goes to the finches house for dinner and scout says 'By the time he reached our front steps Walter had forgotten he was a Cunninham' Also when scout says 'He aint company cal his just a Cunnigham' another clear point of seeing class distinction as Scout who is just a child sees him as just dirt.

This chapter was quite un-eventful, apart from the return of dill. However we see scouts innocence when she just eats the chewing gum out of the tree without knowing it could be bad for her. Pg 39

In this Chapter we come to find the use of humour in the novel as a the six year olds in the novel dill and scout are talking about getting married and how they are inlove wen this is just ridiculous for there age. Also they tried putting a note in Boo Radleys house however they got caught by Atticus.

Dills last night in Maycombfor summer, they planned on sneaking up to the house and pearing inside to get a look at Boo Radley, however Nathan Radley heard them and openned fire upon the kids, as they escaped Jem lost his shorts. Later that night they went to the Rdleys house too find Jems shorts placed on the fence all sown up and neatly folded. They believed this was an apperance by Boo Radley.

Themes shown in this Chapter is Empathy. 'I tried to climb in Jems Skin and walk around in it' pg 63.

Themes here is discrimination when Scout says 'I aint ever heard of a nigger snowman'. A key event is when Miss Maudies house caught oto fire. The children were extremely worried and scared and through out all the confusion they missed boo radley placing a jumper on there shoulders
to keep them warm.

'Scout finches dad is a nigger love' this is a theme of the racial discrimination shown in the book this theme is racial discrimination as the blacks are being seculded into being nigers. Another theme is racism when the word nigger is used in that context.

In this chapter a mad dog appears ( dog with rabbies). Scout and jem then find out the suprising skill that there fathers acquires being a great shooter. His nickname was one shot finch.