Towards
the end of , Dill bets"The Gray Ghost against two Tom Swifts"
that Jem will not knock on the Radley door. Jem is extremely afraid of awakening the
malevolentand makes several excuses as to why he cannot knock on the door. Jem tells Dill that
Boo will more than likely chase him out of the yard and end up killing him. Despite Jem's
insistence that Boo would murder him if he carried out the bet, Dill continues to criticize Jem
for stalling. After contemplating for several days, Jem reasons with Dill to
simply slap the side of the house instead of knocking on the door. Dill accepts
the bet, and Jem ends up slapping the side of the house. After Jem slaps the Radley home, he
bolts out of their yard, and the children follow him back to ' porch.mentions that as they
stared at the Radley home, they thought they could see an inside shutter move
slightly.
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, what dare of Dill's does Jem accept?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
In 1984, is Julia a spy? Please provide specific examples from the book. My teacher says that he knows of 17 pieces of evidence which proves that Julia...
There is some evidence to suggest thatwas a spy throughout 's classic novel . Julia portrays herself as a loyal admirer of Big ...
-
A central theme of "" is that of age: in this poem, we don't encounter the hero of The Iliad and The Odyssey . Rather...
-
Daryll Delgado's short story "Preludes" is full of ambiguities and uncertainties. Delgado deliberately leaves the read...
-
A native of the west, the speaker is well familiar with the climate and environment in his homeland when the west wind begins to blo...
No comments:
Post a Comment