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This passage uses the words ESCORTING, GENTLEMAN, and ACCOMMODATE while showing Scout treating Boo Radley with the dignity Maycomb has long denied him. Lee’s small choreography — hand into the crook of his arm — carries the chapter’s moral weight, and copying it slowly trains the eye to notice how a child performs an act of grown-up courtesy.
I led him to the front porch, where his uneasy steps halted. He was still holding my hand and he gave no sign of letting me go. “Will you take me home?” He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child...
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Narration Prompt
Retell in five or six sentences what happens between Scout and Boo Radley from the moment they leave Jem’s bedroom to the moment Boo closes his front door, paying close attention to who speaks, who is silent, and what Scout decides on her own.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Boo Radley is uncertain and afraid even though he has just saved Jem’s life? Point to two specific details Lee gives the reader.
- How do you know that Scout has begun to understand Boo as a person rather than a ghost? Find a moment in the chapter where her thinking about him changes.
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Item 1
Not sure or confident about something.
Item 2
Hard to believe or accept as true.
Item 3
Easily frightened or shy in nature.
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