what chapter does jem touch the radley house?
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Expert Answers info At the end of chapter 1, Dill dares Jem that he won't run up to the Radley's home and knock on their door. After several days of debating, Dill makes a mild concession and dares Jem to touch the side of the Radley home instead of knocking on the door.
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Boo Radley chooses to stay in his house because he is scared to come out of it. An evolution occurs in Boo Radley from the presents in the tree to his first encounter with Scout and Jem at the end of the book. It takes the desperate situation of Mr. Ewell attacking Jem and Scout for Boo Radley to emerge.
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When the story begins, Jem's idea of bravery is simply touching the side of the Radley house and then only because "In all his life, Jem had never declined a dare." But as the story progresses, Jem learns about bravery from Atticus facing a mad dog, from Mrs.
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Towards the end of chapter 1, Jem describes Boo Radley as a monster. Jem, as any child would do, tends to exaggerate the description. The residents of Maycomb knew something was a little different about the Radleys on the corner.
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Boo Radley comes to the rescue of Jem and Scout in Chapter 28 of To Kill a Mockingbird (pages 262-263 in my old paperback copy from 1982).
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Summary and Analysis Part 1: Chapter 1. Scout, the narrator, remembers the summer that her brother Jem broke his arm, and she looks back over the years to recall the incidents that led to that climactic event. ... Jem runs into the Radleys' yard and touches the outside of the house.
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Summary: Chapter 11 Jem takes a baton from Scout and destroys all of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes. As punishment, Jem must go to her house every day for a month and read to her.
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One of the first moral dilemmas Jem encounters takes place towards the end of chapter 6. Jem has to make the difficult decision whether to return to the Radley yard to retrieve his pants or allow Atticus to discover that he was responsible for raiding the Radley yard.
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Atticus breaks up the fight and sends them to bed. Scout discovers something under her bed. She calls Jem in and they discover Dill hiding there. Dill has run away from home because his mother and new father did not pay enough attention to him.
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Chapters 13 to 15 - Aunt Alexandra arrives. Upon their return from church Scout and Jem are shocked to find Aunt Alexandra waiting for them. It has been decided that whilst Atticus is busy with the trial she will help look after them. She treats Calpurnia much more like a servant than Atticus and the children.
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The reason that Jem returns to the Radley yard to retrieve his pants is because he does not want to disappoint his father. Jem is maturing into a morally upright individual like Atticus and is considerate of his father's feelings. Before Jem leaves to retrieve his pants, Scout begs him not to go.
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After the botched midnight raid on the Radley Place with Scout and Dill, Jem returns alone to retrieve his pants, which were caught on a fence. ... Scout and Jem keep finding treasures in the tree, until Nathan Radley fills the hole with cement, which upsets Jem.
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Summary: Chapter 2 September arrives, and Dill leaves Maycomb to return to the town of Meridian. Scout, meanwhile, prepares to go to school for the first time, an event that she has been eagerly anticipating. ... At recess, Scout complains to Jem, but Jem says that Miss Caroline is just trying out a new method of teaching.
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In Chapter 2 and 3 of the book, Scout comes into conflict with Walter Cunningham. She is angry at him because he has refused her attempts at charity and because she has been punished by the teacher. When she tries to beat him up, Jem stops her.
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In Chapter 8, Boo Radley gives Scout a blanket during the night of Miss Maudie's house fire. Scout and Jem are standing in front of the Radley home, which is right across the street from Miss Maudie's house.
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She misses Jem's company and also got the lowdown on the night his pants got caught on the Radley fence. What spooked Jem on the night of the Radley house incident? ... What spooked Jem was that when he retrieved his pants, they were mended and folded neatly instead of in a bunch and ripped when he had left them.
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The next day, Jem and Scout find that the knothole has been filled with cement. When Jem asks Mr. Radley (Nathan Radley, Boo's brother) about the knothole the following day, Mr. Radley replies that he plugged the knothole because the tree is dying.