To Kill a Mockingbird First chapter analysis

1. What do you learn in this chapter about Maycomb, Atticus Finch and his family?
Maycomb is a city in Alabama, U.S.A.. It's an old small town, with not many childrens but Scout and Jem. Scout (Jean) is sister of Jem, both sons of Atticus Finch, coming from a wealthy family. The mother of both child died when Jean was two years old (so she barely remembers her, not so Jem) and there's a afroamerican maid called Calpurnia.

2. Describe Calpurnia as Scout depicts her in Chapter 1.
She's an afroamerican woman very tyranical (according to Scout), though kinder in the next chapters, and always argues against Jean.      

3. What does Dill dare Jem to do? 
The first summer the siblings met Dill he dares Jem to go on Boo Radley's porch so that he would come out; to see Boo was the great wish and desire of Dill, as it was a mixture of mistery and death.

4. The townspeople of Maycomb have some fears and superstitions about the Radley place. Describe these fears and superstitions.
Some fears? almost everybody feared Boo Radley's house (according to Scouts view), people wouldn't talk about them and their story. They always had their doors closed and no one except the father of Boo was seen in the place, even he wouldn't talk to anyone. The childrens would make up stories of murders and that they had Boo in the basement chained.
5. How important is bravery to Jem?
Is one of the most important things to him, he would never show he was afraid and less in front of her little sister.

6. What do you notice about the narrative voice and viewpoint of the story?
The narrative voice is Scout, so the whole story is looked through an inocent and childish point of view, without really taking serious what was racism, raping and all the important themes in the book.