Today I read Chapter Seven of Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”. I began noticing that the majority of the chapters’ beginnings are recent memories, but number seven differed from the rest. This chapter, on the other hand, explains how Jem and his actions have been affecting Scout, the protagonist of this story. Miss Caroline, her second grade teacher, amuses me with her disdain towards Scout’s ability to read, andwhich teachers todayhen consider it ased a rare skill in children so young. One confusing thing was why Scout would eat a random piece of gum that was hidden in a tree, especially in front of the eerie Radley residence. Jem’s hypocrisy must aggirravitate Scout when she’s trying to confront him with the situation. Even though she willingly took the gum, Scout probably felt a connection to the person putting the stuff there. The person placing the items in the tree must have been Boo Radley because the children’s curiosity might have amused him. Dill Harris, as mentioned in the previous entry, was supposedly going to marry Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. When he came back for that summer, he seemed more connected with Jem, and distant to Scout. Was it his adolescence, or did she do something to him, tearing them apart? Between the Boo Radley game and lemonade from Calpurnia, their cook, the Finch children have been having an enthralling summer so far. This concludes my second entry of the summer reading assignment.