"Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on. His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it." (pg 8-9)
"Two days later Dill arrived in a blaze of glory: he had ridden the train by himself from Meridian to Maycomb...and said he had seen his father. Dill's father was taller than ours, had a black beard(pointed) and was president of the L & N Railroad." (pg 47-48)
Dill makes up many stories, such as his parents, and many children make up stories to impress others or fit in.
In elementary school, everyone in my class said that their parents were divorced because it seemed “cool”, even though none of us knew what this actually meant.