summary of an eventful summer
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In this chapter, a brief introduction of the Finch family is
given by Scout. Simon Finch established a homestead,
‘Finch’s Landing’, on the banks of the Alabama River. He
died a rich and prosperous man. One of his sons, Atticus,
studied law; the other had studied medicine. Although both
sons left Finch’s Landing, Alexandra, their sister, remained.
Atticus practiced law in Maycomb, where he lived with his
two children, Jem and Scout, and the cook, Calpurnia.
Atticus’ wife died when the children were young, and Scout
hardly remembers her.
The children’s boundaries for roaming were Miss Henry
Lafayette Dubose’s house and the Radley house. The Radley
house had always fascinated the children with its spooky
exterior. The children used to imagine that a vicious
phantom resided in the house. In fact, Mr. and Mrs. Radley
were a couple who kept to themselves. Their son, Boo
Radley is believed by children to have maniacal tendencies
and so is kept at home. The children played games around
the Radley house and dare one another to touch the wall of
the house to prove how brave they are.
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Summary of 'An Eventful Summer' by Harper Lee
One of the great books of modern American literature, To Kill a Mockingbird recounts the events that takes place in a small town of Maycomb. It is narrated through the voice of six-year-old Scout (Jean Louise Finch) who lives with her father, Atticus and her older brother Jeremy.
Maycomb was a very mundane and tired old town. In the rainy weather, the streets turned to red liquid waste, grass grew on the sidewalks and the courthouse sagged in the square. It was hotter then, a black dog suffered on a summer's day, bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the uncomfortably hot shade of the live oaks on the square.
People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.
Jem, Scout, Atticus and Calpurnia live on the main residential street in the town. They found there father satisfactory since he played with them, read to them, and treated them with courteous detachment.
Calpurnia was the cook of Atticus, Jem and Scout. She was very thin and bony and her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was also very nearsighted, she squinted. The battles of Calpurnia and Scout were epic and one-sided and Calpurnia always won since Atticus always took her side.
Scout's mother died when she was two so she never felt her absence. Their mother was a Graham from Montgomery. Atticus had met her when he was first elected to the state legislature. He was middle-aged then and she was fifteen years his junior. Jem was the product of their first year of marriage and then four years later Scout was born. Two years later, their mother died from a heart attack which ran in her family.
Jem and Scout's summertime boundaries were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house two doors to the north of their house and the Radley Place three doors to the south. The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom would make Jem and Scout behave for days on an end.
One morning, Jem and Scout were beginning their day's play in the backyard when they heard a noise from Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch. They went to check if her Rat Terrier was there but they found a small and little boy staring at them who was named Dill (Charles Baker Harris). Dill told them that he could read and that he was seven. He was from the Meridian, Mississippi and was spending the summer with his aunt Rachel and would spend every summer there from then. His family was from Maycomb County originally. His mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered a Beautiful Child Contest and won five dollars. His mother gave the money to him, and he went to the picture shows twenty times on it. Dill had seen the Dracula a discovery the moved Jem to the eye.
Dill was a curiosity. He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt and his hair was snow-white. He was a senior to Scout but she towered over him. As Dill told them the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken, his laugh was sudden and happy and he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his head. Dill mentioned that he didn't have a father nor was he dead.
The three kids' routine contentment was improving their treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the backyard, fussing, running through their list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dill usually played the roles that were thrust upon Scout like the ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys and Mr. Damon in Tom Swift.