The Town Mascot…Dead In the beginning of this chapter we learned that the kids think that Atticus does not know how to do anything. Miss Maudie claimed that he was the best checker player in the town. Atticus gave the kids air-riffles but he refused to teach them how to shoot. Therefore Uncle Jack instructed them. Atticus told Jem he should shoot the tin cans in the backyard, but he knew that Jem would …showed first 75 words of 387 total…

…showed last 75 words of 387 total…this chapter he has a hidden talent when it comes to shooting a rifle. Some things are just best kept secret. Atticus thought he had an advantage over the animals so he put his gun down. It was a god given talent and not something he had practiced at to get better. The reason we picked Chapter 10 was because it would teach kids not to judge people on what they can see and have heard.