to kill a mockingbird-chapters 7-9

chapter 7-a few days later Jem tells Scout that they found his pants folded and hung up neatly over the fence. They thought this was weird because when they left them there they were stuck to the fence. They seemed very suspicious over this, but didn't pay too much attention to it at first. Furthermore, on the way home from school that day, something else weird happened. They found a ball of twine in the knothole of the tree at Boo Radley's. Also, later in the chapter 2 more objects appear in the knothole. There were 2 carvings if Jem and Scout made out of soap. There was also a piece of gum, spelling bee medal and a pocket watch in the knothole. Moreover, the next day Mr. Radley filled the knothole with cement.

chapter 8-Later in the winter, Miss Maudie's house randomly burns down. No one knows who did it, but as it was burning down someone came over and put a blanket over Scout. Scout later found out that it was Boo Radley who put the blanket over her, and he also revealed the story about him putting the objects in the knothole. Scout tells Atticus, but he tells her to keep it to herself for now.

chapter 9-The next day at school Scout almost gets in a fight with another classmate named Cecil Jacobs. Atticus has just told people that he will be defending a black person. The black person named Tom Robinson was being charged for raping a white woman. People every in Maycomb, even Scout's classmates are giving their family a hard time for this. During the christmas holidays Atticus's brother Jack comes to stay with them for christmas. On christmas day Atticus takes them to finch's landing with some other people in the family. There a boy named Francis calls Atticus a "nigger lover" and Scout gets in a fight with him. Later that night Scout over hears Atticus saying that Tom Robinson is actually innocent, but there is no way he can win the case since Tom is a black man. At this time black people suffered through everything, even if they didn't do it.