During their first summer together, Dill, Jem and Scout spent a great deal of their time engaged in innocent, youthful pursuits:
...the summer passed in routine contentment. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
However, the threesome eventually became bored with those options and Dill, "whose head teamed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies," inspired the Finch children to join him in forcing Arthur "Boo" Radley from his sanctuary, the Radley house.
Later summers would find Jem, Scout, and Dill continuing their mission to "discover" Boo, as well as becoming involved in matters of varying degrees of seriousness. The trial of Tom Robinson was clearly the matter of most import to take place in any of the summers referred to in the novel.
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