Mr. Avery is the Finches' heavyset, superstitious neighbor who is notorious for peeing off of his front porch at night. In Chapter 8, Maycomb, Alabama is hit with unusually cold weather. Mr. Avery believes that it is written on the Rosetta Stone that seasons change when children misbehave. Children who disobey their parents, fight and argue with each other, and smoke cigarettes contribute to the changing of seasons. When Maycomb is hit with a light dusting of snow, Jem and Scout walk over to Miss Maudie's yard to gather her snow in an attempt to build a snowman. Mr. Avery sees the children walking on the sidewalk and accosts them. He comments that it hasn't snowed that badly in Maycomb since Appomattox, and it's bad children like Jem and Scout who make the weather change. Scout, being a naive, innocent child, doesn't question Mr. Avery's "meteorological statistics" because they come from the Rosetta Stone.
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