To Kill a Mockingbird Summary

In the following lines i'm telling in a short summary what happened on chapters 10 and 11 of the novel "How to Kill a Mockingbird", written by Harper Lee. 

Chapter 10

In this chapter Scout was faced to a really big trouble, to encourage the promise she made to Atticus of not fighting anymore. She had to hold herself because of the constant people bothering her at school because of the case Atticus had taken. Then, she and Jem began to notice that their father was older than their classmates’ ones. In addition to this, they didn’t like the job of Atticus; they preferred him to be even a farmer. He didn't even teach Jem and Scout to shoot when they got their air rifles, but he did ask that they shoot at tin cans or blue jays but not mockingbirds because it was a sin to kill mockingbirds. Scout had never heard her daddy say that something was a sin, so she was naturally curious as to why mockingbirds were so special. She went to Miss Maudie for answers, and Miss Maudie explained that, "'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'"

Chapter 11

When Scout was well into second grade, she and Jem had moved beyond Boo Radley and had grown more interested in the actual town of Maycomb. The only problem was that to get to town, they had to pass the home of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. She was a mean old woman who always yelled terrible things at Scout and Jem. She lived alone with only a colored girl who took care of her, and the part of the day that she didn't spend in bed, she spent sitting in a wheelchair on her front porch. It was rumored among the town that she kept a pistol hidden under some shawls, but no one knew if it was real or not. No matter how they tried to handle Mrs. Dubose, she was always being mean to them, and Atticus told them to ignore it because she was just a sick, old lady. Because they were older then, Jem insisted that they meet Atticus at the post office on his way home from work, and that meant passing Mrs. Dubose every day. And every day Atticus would stop at her house, take his hat off, and wish her a good day. Then he would swing Scout up onto his shoulders and they would continue home.