I believe I have found the suspenseful side of this book. Do you recall the feeling you get when watching a particularly eerie movie or reading a horror novel? There was a moment similar to that when Mr. Nathan Radley shot at the three (Dill, Jem, and Scout). And yet, the fact that Jem loses his pants adds a funny note.
Later on, we find out why Jem was scared the night he returned to retrieve his lost article. Here again is that eerie feeling. But I wonder who mended and folded those pants? There were three possibilities: Nathan Radley, the old Mrs. Radley, or Boo himself. I couldn't catch who the book hinted at, but after rereading, I think it had to be Boo.
I wonder how we would react with something new, something never conceived of? I ask this because of Scout's encounter with snow. This makes me think of that Amazon tribe recently found, shooting primitive arrows at a "shining silver bird." They and their ancestors had mastered and known everything that existed, or so they thought. Have we mastered everything?
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