The RADleys

In this chapter, we learned that it was Dill's last day in Alabama and he and Jem wanted to to go to the Radley's house to find him.  He first told Jem if he wanted to "join him for a walk"  but Scout knew something was up since no one in Maycomb ever really goes for walks. Scout wanted to join them to  to see what they were going to do so they went at night. When they went, they had to go through a creeky gate that made noise whenever it moved. They had to spit on the gate so that it didn't make anymore noise. Mr. Radley had mistaken them for robbers so he came out and held out his hand towards Jem and both Dill and Scout saw in shock. we do not know who the man is but all we know is that he was wearing a hat. The shadow of Mr. Radley moved across Jem so they took off and ran and made loud noise and Mr. Radley clearly heard and fired his shotgun which everyone in the neighborhood had heard and all gathered at Mr. Radley's house. Ms Maudie says that Mr. Radley said that whoever is the next person who crosses the gate, will be shot by him. Ms Maudie knew it was Jem who did it so she accused him in front of everyone. Jem had no pants and looked suspicious to everyone. He lost his pants to when he was going under the gate when he was running away and lost his pants there. He and Dill lied that Jem had lost his pants to a game that they had played that day. Atticus told Jem that he better have his pants by the morning. Jem didn't want to tell the truth since he would rather get shot then to disappoint his father. Since Jem has a high moral standard for his father, he told Scout that he was gong to go back to the Radley's to get his pants back even though scout begged him not to go. Jem ended up coming back alive with his pants but he was a little sad for the next couple of days.