Chapter Five Overview:

As Dill and Jem spend more and more time together, Scout becomes friends with Miss Maudie. She tells about how she knows Boo is still alive, and how he must be crazy. After this, Dill and Jem cook up the idea to try and deliver a note to Boo with a fishing pole through a hole in a window shutter. After Atticus finds them doing this, He tells the kids to stop bothering the family, and Jem yells to Atticus that he once wanted to be a lawyer, like Atticus, but didn't anymore.

Allusion: second Battle of the Marne was a battle in World War I which was hugely bloody

New Characters:
Miss Maudie

Chapter Five Overview:

after the blunder of the note, Dill and Jem try to sneak into the Radley yard and get a look of Boo. Jem lrips and loses his pants, and Mr. Radley sees them, and fires his gun in the air to shoo them off. Atticus asks where Jem's pants went, and Dill said he won them in strip poker. Atticus tells him to go get them, and goes home. Later in the night, Jem tries to go get his pants, but Scout keeps trying to tell him not to. Jem goes and gets them.

Lit Element: allusion: Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubois: Lafayette was a French general who served in the American revolution and the French Revolution

New Characters:

Mr. Radley