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[How does jem change?]
Jem slowly start to understand what is going on and becomes more aware of the immoralities

Basically, he grows up and matures as a result of the Tom Robinson trial. Jem sees the world for how

it really is, and stops seeing it through the eyes of a child. In the beginning of the book, Jem gets

along and plays with Scout and the other children. At the end, however, he becomes annoyed with

Scout. The trial taught him about the unjust laws and that the world is not a fair place, and at the

end of the book, he relates with Atticus moreso than in the beginning.

[Identify Lula, Zeebo and Reverend Sykes.]
The answer to this question (the identities of these people) can be found in Chapter 12.  This is the

chapter in which Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to the First Purchase Church.  This is the black

church in Maycomb.

Lula is the woman who confronts the three of them.  She does not like the fact that Calpurnia has

brought the white kids.  She thinks the church should be for blacks only.

Zeebo is the garbage collector.  He welcomes the kids and tells them not to take Lula seriously.

Rev. Sykes is the pastor of the church.

[What does scout learn about calpernia?]
Scout learns that Zeebo was Calpurnia's son and taught him how to read and write.Also he learns that

Cal speaks different in front of the colored folks and the whites.

[Who was waiting for the children when they came home from the church?]
They find that Aunt Alexandra is waiting on the porch, and will be staying with them for good. The

children are not happy at all about this, but pretend to be happy so as to be polite.

[Explain aunt alexandra fitted into the world of maycomb like a hand in a glove but never into the

world of jem and you?]
She could get along with the other members of the Maycomb society but did not understand the childish

values of Jem & Scout. She was always always trying to change them (something no one likes another to

do). So it is understandable that Jem & Scout didn't like her.

[atticus and alexandra disagree about how to deal with the children?]
Atticus goes and talks to Jem and Scout and tells them that they need to change the way they act. He

tells them that they need to act more like the rest of the finch family.

[Describe Jem and Scout's relationship through these chapters as Jem matures. Why did Dill run away

from home back to Maycomb?]
As Jem enters puberty, he becomes more distant and short-tempered with Scout. When he tells his

sister to "start bein' a girl and acting right!", Scout bursts into tears and seeks solace with

Calpurnia. Scout also misses Dill, who has not arrived yet for his regular summer stay. Jem and Scout

are able to agree on their dislike for Aunt Alexandra, who unites them when she comes to stay with

them at the end of Chapter 12. But the two get into a fistfight in Chapter 14, and Atticus has to

step in. Things get better later that night when Dill makes his appearance--from underneath Scout's

bed. Dill has run away from home, and he claims it is because of his "new father," who has chained

him and left him to die in their Meridian basement.

[Why did Dill Harris run away from home in To Kill a mockingbird?]
It happens in part 2 of the book. In Ch. 12, we find out that Dill's mother remarried and he can't

come to Maycomb for the summer since he has to "stay with his new family in Meridian." In the next

chapters, we find out that Dill has run away from home because he felt that his mother and new father

didn't pay enough attention to him. He took a train to the Maycomb train station(which was 14 miles

from Meridian). He walked the part of the way and rode the rest in a cotton wagon.