By examining the text we located the reasons Claudia wishes to leave home. Atticus astutely noticed the implication of gender roles for girls as a source of Claudia's discontent. As the novel's structure is somewhat unique , we together studied the author's conceit that the novel is Mrs Frankweiler's account to her lawyer as to why she is amending her will. I explained the function of a will as well as the author's use of parenthesis to denote commentary to her attorney. Last, we studied chapter vocabulary words.