Jem, after having chopped the buds off of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes, is told in a face-to-face meeting with her that he is to read to her every afternoon for a month, and that he is to do yard work for her as recompense for the destruction he caused. Atticus reinforces this "sentence." Jem's actions were prompted by Mrs. Dubose's comments about Atticus; that is, she told the children (Scout and Jem) that Atticus was bad or wrong for defending Tom Robinson, and that he allowed them, as children, to "run wild" unsupervised. After her comments, Jem was prompted to take revenge on the one thing she valued most, her flowers.
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