She is clearly concerned to teach the children to be white in total contrast to the way she brought up her own son, Zeebo. There is also prejudice between the better-off residents of Maycomb and the impoverished families like the Ewell's and Cunningham's.
Despite the specter of evil, which the children have generated concerning Boo Radley, they show bravery by continuing to flirt with this force. A typical example of this is Jem's bravery in deciding to deliver a note to Boo by shoving it under his door.
Scout's world is a safe place. The only fears she has have been generated through her own imagination. When she passes the Radley house she takes and eats the gum on trust.
Coupled with trust is, of course, truth and we find during the course of the story that almost every character lies at some stage, although these lies are meant to protect people from trouble.
Scout will face different forms of femininity as she tries to understand what it is to be a girl'. The two main female role models have different views on femininity, but it would appear that Scout would tend to adopt Miss Maudie's line.
Chapters 6, 7 and 8.
Summary.
The children return home to find the neighborhood adults assembled, brought out of their homes by the sound the of the shotgun. They include Atticus, Miss Maudie and Miss Stephanie Crawford. The gossiping Crawford tells the children that Nathan Radley has shot at a Negro in his yard.
Atticus asks Jem what has happened to his pants and he makes up a ridiculous story about being at a strip poker game at Dill's house. Later that night Jem sneaks out of his bedroom returning to the Radley place to retrieve his pants.
He finds them folded neatly where he had left them and repaired from the damage they had sustained on the fence.
At the start of the school year Jem tells Scout about the mysteriously mended pants and when they come home together from school they find another present hidden in the knothole of the tree.
