To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 7
Characters mentioned
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Scout (Jean Louise Finch)
Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch)
Mrs Fischer
Walter Cunningham – might use knothole as hidingplace
Mr Avery – whittles away a piece of stove wood until it is a toothpick.
Miss Stephanie Crawford’s sweetheart – he carves wood but lives in
another county
• Miss Maudie – can’t chew gum, Jem asked her once
Scout
• 2nd Grade was as bad as first grade.
• They were not allowed to read
Miss Caroline Fischer
• Still struggled with the first graders
Jem
• Jem confessed to Scout that the night he went to fetch his
trousers he found them neatly folded and mended on the Radley
fence.
• It was as if someone knew Jem’s mind.
• Jem says you only learn something in school from the 6th grade.
• Jem wants to write a letter of thanks for all the things they have
received and place it in the knothole.
Jem (continued)
• Jem asks Mr Radley if he put cement in the knothole.
• Jem asks Atticus if the tree is dying.
• Jem cries a little bit by himself when he hears the answer from
Atticus.
The knothole in the Oak tree
• Jem and Scout found grey twine in it.
• They found two carved images in soap. One of Jem and one of
Scout.
• A whole package of chewing gum.
• An old spelling bee medal.
• A broken pocket watch on a chain with an aluminium knife,
worth almost 10 pounds.
• The knothole is filled with cement.
Mr Nathan Radley
• He tells Jem he filled the knothole of the tree with cement.
• He says that is what you do when a tree is dying.
Atticus
• Atticus says in his opinion the tree with the knothole is not dying.
• When he hears that Mr Nathan says it was dying he said Mr
Nathan must know his own trees better than Atticus.