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"The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house." The Radley House is first described as old and spooky. Dill is interested and wants to get as close as posible.
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Boo Radly is described to Dill. Dill is also told a story about what Boo did such as beating, using profane words, assult, and disturbing the peace. All of these made up, of course.
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Scout finds a peice of gum in a knothole in a tree on the corner of the Radley lot. This is only the begining of the things that they find in there.
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Scout, Jem, and Dill write a letter to Boo to try to get him to come out of the house but are caught by Atticus and he puts a stop to it.
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Jem, Dill, and Scout try to peek into Boo Radley's house but are caught by Mr. Radley who shoots at them. They run but Jem gets his pants stuck on the fence and has to leave them behind. Later he goes back to see that Boo had folded them and put them in a neat way over the fence.
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Jem and Scout find an old broken watch in the knothole on the tree. Jem trys to fix it for a while but fails and gives up in frustration.
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Mr. Radley cements up the hole on the tree because he claims that it was dying. But Atticus tells Jem and Scout that the tree looks perfectly healthy. Jem and Scout are very sad.
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Mrs. Radley dies over the summer. This causes not a lot of commotion because she hardly ever left the house. Atticus tells Scout and Jem that she died of natural causes, which was a dissapointment to them.
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There is a fire and Jem and Scout have to stand out of the way in front of the Radley House. Scout was freezing and didn't realize that Boo had come up behind her and given her a blanket. Scout didn't realize it until Atticus brought it up when they were drinking hot chocolate.
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Jem starts going even further to greet his father and he uses the excuse; "I have survived Boo Radley" So he thinks that Boo is like some kind of near death experiance.