Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Is there a specific quote that Atticus tells Jem, Dill and Scout when they get caught stalking Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird? Is there...

Apparently Atticus has managed to limit his children's curiosity
about Boo Radley--until Dill's arrival in Maycomb, that is. It is Dill that spurs Jem and Scout's
greater interest in the neighborhood phantom, and Atticus does his best to keep the children out
of Boo's business. He catches Jem trying to send a message to Boo via a fishing pole, and he
witnesses their play-acting about the Radley family. He is not amused. Following the fishing pole
incident, he tells them


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"Son," he said to Jem, "I'm going to tell you something
and tell you one time: stop tormenting that man. That goes for the other two of you."
(Chapter 5, page
49)



But Atticus knows that words alone
will not stop their curiosity, and we find out much later that he somehow knew that Jem had
sneaked out of the house late at night to retrieve his lost pants from the Radley fence. In the
end, his patience won out, and Scout discovered that Boo had actually been keeping an eye on them
all along.

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