Jem tells Scout that when he went back for his pants,
they were folded across the fence like someone was expecting that he’d come back for them
. They were also sewed up all crooked.
What does Jem discover about his pants when he goes back to retrieve them from the Radley fence?
What does Jem discover about his pants when he goes back to retrieve them from the Radley fence?
They had been replaced by a girl’s skirt. His pants were mended and folded nicely.
What does Jem do about his pants?
Jem loses his pants as he is fleeing from the scene of the Radley House late at night with Scout and Dill. He leaves the pants, which got snagged on the bottom of the property fence,
only to find them neatly folded and left for him on the fencepost the next day
.
When Jem goes back to retrieve his pants from the Radley yard What is surprising about what he finds Who do you think is responsible for this surprise why?
When Jem goes back to retrieve his pants from the Radley yard, what is surprising about what he finds? Who do you think is responsible for this surprise?
He finds them nicely folded and stitched up as a man would do it. He thinks Boo Radley is responsable.
How did Jem lose his pants What did he find when he went back for them?
What did he find when he came back for them? Jem lost his pants because when the trio
wanted to leave the Radley’s yard, they had to go under some barbed wire
. As a result, Jem got stuck on the wire and he had to take off his pants. When he went back for them, Jem found his pants stitched up and on top of the fence.
Why does Scout not want Jem to go back and get his pants?
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.
Who does Scout think is hiding things in the knothole?
Arthur “Boo” Radley is the person who places trinkets and small items in the knot-hole of the tree, but at first Scout believes that
Walter Cunningham
is storing things. In Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem walk past their tree and observe that there is a ball of gray twine in the knot-hole.
What does Mr Avery do with a stick of Stovewood?
Avery takes
stovewood and whittles it, or carves it, into a toothpick
. “Mr. Avery averaged a stick of stovewood per week; he honed it down to a toothpick and chewed it.” In one of the most iconic moments in To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem find their little soap figure likenesses in a hollow of the Radely tree.
How did Jem react when Atticus told him to go home?
How does Jem react when Atticus tells him to go home, and why? He rufuses to go home,
he just says “no” and he stays there
. He reacts that way because he is very worried that these men will do something to Atticus. He thinks he might be able help out if anything bad were to happen.
Why did Mr Radley fill the tree with cement?
Mr. Nathan Radley tells Jem that he filled the knothole of the tree with cement
because it was dying
. … Atticus says the tree looks perfectly healthy, and Jem discovers that Nathan was lying. The real reason Nathan fills the knothole with cement is to prevent Boo from communicating with the children.
Why does Jem cry at the end of Chapter 7?
In Chapter Seven, Jem cries
when he realizes that Mr. Radley cemented the knot-hole in the tree
, not because it was dying, but because he aimed to keep Boo from leaving the children gifts. This is one more example of how the Radley’s cut Boo off from the world.
What happens when Jem and Scout attempt spy on the Radley’s?
What happens when Jem, Dill, and Scout attempt to spy on the Radleys? How does Jem lose his pants on the night they are trying to spy on Boo?
They get stuck on a fence
. … She insists Scout needs to be more “ladylike.”
What had Jem not told Scout about the night he retrieved his pants?
Jem reveals to Scout what happened on the night that he got his pants caught in the Radleys’ fence in chapter seven. Scout knew that he had gone back for his pants, but when he came back that night with the pants, he
didn’t say anything about
what had happened next.
Why does Miss Maudie laugh at Scout?
Scout only thinks she hears correctly the discussion between Miss Maudie and Atticus. Scout later refers to the melted snowman as the Morphodite which makes
Miss Maudie put her hands on her head and laugh
loudly. Jem and Scout did not understand why Miss Maudie thought the discussion with Scout was so funny.
What did Jem call Scout?
Later, though, Jem does call Scout
“Angel May.
” This name-calling occurs at the beginning of Chapter 6.
Why did Jem lie to Atticus?
Atticus
would have either punished him for losing the pants
(something it would cost money to replace) or have punished him for lying, had he found out how the pants were really lost. So, Jem really had no choice but to go back for his pants, as scary as that prospect was.
