1. What happens to Jem’s pants? What excuse does Dill make up to explain the situation?
Jem, Scout, and Dill were trying to escape from the Radely's place after trying to spy on them. When Jem was last to leave, he went under the fence and got his pants stuck to wiring and in a rush, he left them behind. Dill explains to everyone afterwords that they were [laying strip poker and he won the pants from Jem.
2. Scout is unable to sleep because she is so scared. Identify an example of personification in her description of her sleepless night.
"... the china berry tress were malignant, hovering alive." ( p.74)
3. Why is it important to Jem to get his pants before morning, even though the mission is dangerous?
Atticus would then know that Jem was lying and disobeying his previous orders. And to Jem, being dishonored by his father was the worst consequence the situation.
4. Jem has decided that what he, Scout, and Dill did was wrong. What might account for Jem’s change of heart? How does Scout feel about it?
The fact that they were all in a dangerous situation and were constantly provoking a harmless neighbor might have accounted for Jem's change of heart after looking at the situation from another person's perspective, like his father said before. Scout doesn't quite understand their wrong doings as Jem might have seen it and she's mostly bewildered because she doesn't see the faults and harm they all caused.
Jem, Scout, and Dill were trying to escape from the Radely's place after trying to spy on them. When Jem was last to leave, he went under the fence and got his pants stuck to wiring and in a rush, he left them behind. Dill explains to everyone afterwords that they were [laying strip poker and he won the pants from Jem.
2. Scout is unable to sleep because she is so scared. Identify an example of personification in her description of her sleepless night.
"... the china berry tress were malignant, hovering alive." ( p.74)
3. Why is it important to Jem to get his pants before morning, even though the mission is dangerous?
Atticus would then know that Jem was lying and disobeying his previous orders. And to Jem, being dishonored by his father was the worst consequence the situation.
4. Jem has decided that what he, Scout, and Dill did was wrong. What might account for Jem’s change of heart? How does Scout feel about it?
The fact that they were all in a dangerous situation and were constantly provoking a harmless neighbor might have accounted for Jem's change of heart after looking at the situation from another person's perspective, like his father said before. Scout doesn't quite understand their wrong doings as Jem might have seen it and she's mostly bewildered because she doesn't see the faults and harm they all caused.