Since I’m not sure where you are in the novel, I will give you a list of all the things Scout and Jem find in the knothole. The first thing Scout finds is two pieces of chewing gum, a real treat for children during this time. She gobbles up both pieces of gum before Jem sees her chewing it and makes her spit it out. Jem’s afraid it is poisonous because it came from a...
Since I’m not sure where you are in the novel, I will give you a list of all the things Scout and Jem find in the knothole. The first thing Scout finds is two pieces of chewing gum, a real treat for children during this time. She gobbles up both pieces of gum before Jem sees her chewing it and makes her spit it out. Jem’s afraid it is poisonous because it came from a Radley tree. The children check the knothole each day as they walk home from school in hopes of finding more “treasures”. They end up finding two figures who look like them carved out of soap, a spelling bee medal, and a pocket watch.
All of these artifacts show Boo Radley’s kind and caring nature. The two soap figures show his creativity and how much he knows and likes the children. The spelling medal shows that he was once an able, smart young man who took part in social events. The old pocket watch is a token of the time he has spent mysteriously hiding out in the Radley house. They are all gifts children would treasure.
Harper Lee cleverly includes this gift-giving scene so we, as readers, know that Boo Radley is not a crazy lunatic as rumors suggest but a person who can be a friend and is of no harm to the children.
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