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Throughout all of chapter 4 Scout is treated like a little kid. Scout is getting bored with school and feels like she's missing out on everything because she wasn't homeschooled like her dad. Meanwhile, Dill returns to Maycomb feeling grown up because he traveled back by himself, however Jem becomes angry with Scout because he thinks she is acting like too much of a girl. This chapter is needed in the novel because it arises the suspense of Boo Radley. The kids continuously received little "gifts" from Boo Radley that made him seem more mysterious. Chapter four introduces the fear of the Radley Place and the tension between Scout and Calpurnia.

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"Rather than risk a tangle with Calpurnia, I did as Jem told me. For some reason, my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship: Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval. On my part, I went to much trouble, sometimes, not to provoke her" (Lee 45).

Scout's relationship with Calpurnia is on bad terms in the beginning of the novel, Scout doesn't agree with the fact that Atticus hired a colored women to work for them. Their relationship gets stronger for the better around the time of the trial when she finally understands why her dad does what he does, because it is right and fair. Scout spit out her gum like Jem told her so she wouldn't have to argue with Calpurnia about it.

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"Atticus's arrival was the second reason I wanted to quit the game. The first reason happened the day I rolled into the Radley front yard. Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea and Jem-yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the side-walk. Someone inside the house was laughing" (Lee 54).

This quote is significant because Boo Radley doesn't come outside so he doesn't like attention, he uses the kids for entertainment, he watches them play their games and have fun. Throughout the book, the kids continue to fear Boo Radley until later chapters where they realize Boo isn't a bad person after all.

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"'Smatter? Still scared?"
"Scout, how's he gonna know what we're doin'? Besides, I don't think he's still there. He died years ago and they stuffed him up the chimney" (Lee 51).

This quote is significant because Jem is treating Scout like a little girl because she's afraid of the Radley house and she doesn't want to play the Boo Radley game. Throughout the novel Jem and Scout grow up and grow closer together, this quote shows the beginning of that.

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"I spat it out. The tang was fading, anyway. 'I've been chewin' it all afternoon and I ain't dead yet, not even sick.' Jem stamped his foot. 'Don't you know you're not supposed to even touch the trees over there? You'll get killed if you do!'" (Lee 45).

This quote is significant because it introduces the Radley house and the feelings the kids have toward it, they're terrified, they think just by touching it they could die.

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- Scout gets bored with school.
- In front of the Radley lot, Scout and Jem find little "gifts" wrapped in tinfoil inside the knot-hole of a tree.
- The gifts received were chewing gum, grey twine, girl and boy dolls carved out of soap, a spelling medal, a pocket-watch, and pennies of Indian heads in a velvet package.
- Jem tells Scout he's going to tell on her if she doesn't spit the gum out because he thinks everything from the Radley house is poison.
- School ends, summer begins, and Dill comes back to Maycomb.
- Dill and Jem rolled Scout in a tire and she landed on the Radley steps.
- The kids got the idea to play a new game called "Boo Radley".
- Jem and Scout realize that the person who was leaving the "gifts" was Boo Radley.
- Nathan Radley fills the knot-hole with cement.
- Scout wants to quit the game because she heard someone laughing inside the Radley house.
- Jem and Dill tell Scout she's acting like too much of  a girl because she wants to quit the game.

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