Few chapters are as initially bewildering as the tea party scene in chapter 24. It makes little sense because the women are all intentionally being somewhat obtuse, and while they all understand what they’re talking about, Scout is completely lost — as are most of the students.

Our first task was to break it into manageable sections. Afterward, we focused on chunk 1, which is about some previously-unknown character named J Grimes Everett and someone or something known as “those poor Mrunas.”

We’ll finish up the work tomorrow.