TKAMB 1-2

In the first chapter, it starts off as a young girl telling the reader her story of how her brother broke his arm. She starts by saying her name is Scout, her age, and naming all the people involved in her story. She mentions her family members and her friends, but keeps to her story. Immediately I can see a sense unreliable narrator because of how she talks; she uses words and quotes that a 6 year old cant possibly know, so she must've heard someone else say them and just had picked them up. Throughout the rest of the chapter, she talks about her fascination with Boo Radley, a mysterious figure that her and her neighborhood friends are constantly trying to see. Boo Radley is supposedly a 6 foot tall man that lives in the attic of the house in Scout's neighborhood. At the end of the chapter, Scout is dared by her friend Dill to go touch his house, which might give the children a sight of him. Scout touches the house and runs back away from it. The chapter ends with the kids swearing a window shutter had moved after they touched the house. This chapter shows the reader how the children are like any other children, but they're unique in their own personal ways. It also shows how naïve Scout is as a younger child.

In the second chapter, Scout is faced with school. Scout genuinely doesn't like going to school or her teacher, Miss Caroline, and says that she deals poorly with the children. Scout complains to her brother about her teacher, but Jem basically tells Scout to deal with it. A major part in the chapter is when Scout notices that Walter Cunningham hasn't brought a lunch to school, and when Miss Caroline offers to give him the money to buy one, he says that he cannot take the money cause he knows he wont be able to pay her back. This is a major part because it shows the reader how poor some families were during that time, and it shows how exposed Scout is to the different types of social and economic class on an every day basis.