In "To Kill a Mockingbird," Scout, the narrator, tells the reader
We lived on the main residential street in town...Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.
She continues that she, Jem, and Dill spent the summer "in routine contentment." They worked on their tree house, played various roles from dramas, and sought to entice Boo Radley to come outside. The mystery attached to the Radley family and house is exciting to the children.
Scout's father, Atticus, also allows Scout to be a tomboy, wearing overalls and being somewhat lenient about her unladylike behavior. She and Jem have a very open relationship with their father, whom they call by his first name, a most uncommon things as Southerner boys and girls of that time period were supposed to address their parents as "sir" and "ma'am." When Atticus reads to them, they are allowed to stop him and ask questions, too. Atticus discusses with Scout her desire to not return to school, rather than scolding her as many parents would.
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