During Chapter 5, we realise that Jem and Dill friendship began to grow a lot more, and eventually Scout began to get left out of their games, and as a result, she began to spend a lot more time with Miss Maudie Atkinson, one of the Scout's neighbours.
Miss Maudie is a widow with a passion for gardening and cake making. Miss Maudie starts talking to Scout about Boo Radley, and Miss Maudie believes that Boo is the victim of a very harsh father, and says that Boo was a very nice, polite and friendly as a child. This makes the reader start to think that Boo Radley isn't evil after all, and that it is maybe Boo's father, that has influenced him or make Boo look worse than he really is.
Finally in the chapter, Dill and Jem plan to give Boo Radley a note to get him to come out of his house, but as the boys try to put it through Boo's window, Atticus catches them and their plan fails.
Useful summary of the chapter with good reference to how moments in the story effect the way the reader reacts towards characters.
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