When Jem says “... they were folded across the fence . . . like they were expectin’ me” he means that after he lost his pants in the Radley's lawn they were better off than when he left them. While following through on another crazy objective Scout, Jem, and Dill venture inside the Radley's lawn to try to see if anyone is inside. After the first window was a failure because there were curtains, Jem reluctantly went to the back porch and looked in the window. There was a shadow that you could just see inside and walking around but it seemed as if the shadow saw them and was headed for the door. Dill and Scout raced out of there as fast as they could, however, Jem's pants were stuck and ripped in the fence so he had to wiggle out and leave them behind.
Later that day however Jem went back to the Radley's house to retrieve his pants so that he could avoid a beating, however, instead of finding them in tangles how he left them they were folded and mended. Jem notices that “they had been sewed up... all crooked” (Lee 66). Boo Radley who was likely not a skilled sower knew that Jem would be back for his pants and was ready when he did.
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ReplyDeleteJem has to get his pants back to show Atticus that he isn't a liar. If he really had lost them to Dill in strip poker, he would be able to get them back. when he goes out, he tells Scout, "Atticus ain't ever whipped me since I can remember. I wanta keep in that way." Since he lied to Atticus about how he lost them, he has to get them back to keep Atticus from being angry.
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