There is a crowd of dozens of people, and a young boy picks up a rock and heaves it at the head of another boy. The second boy is different from the others through his abnormal appearance but why did the first boy throw the rock? The first boy does not know either. It was a prickling sense inside of him that told him to throw the rock. It is ... his head at me again. "But he's gone and drowned his dinner in syrup," I protested. "He's poured it all over -" It was then that Calpurnia requested my presence in the kitchen. She was furious, and when she was furious, her language became erratic. "...

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... aged 6. Scout's mother had died four years previously and their cook, an old black woman called Calpurnia, helps to bring up the two siblings. An odd boy named Charles Baker Harris, known as Dill, moves in next door for the summer to stay with his aunt, Miss Rachel Haverford. Dill's parents are getting ... particular one of its strange occupants, Arthur "Boo" Radley, who never comes out of the run-down house at the end of their street. As a boy, Boo got into trouble with the authorities and his father imprisoned him in the house as a punishment. Nothing much was heard about him until fi...

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• Grade Level: High School