What does Jem call somebody who cant get to heaven and just wallows around on lonesome roads?

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, calls someone who can't get to heaven and just wallows
around on lonesome roads a Hot Steam.

Jem andare released from
school for the summer and are awaiting the arrival of their best friend, Dill. Two days after
Jem and Scout are out of school for the summer, Dill arrives from Meridian, Mississippi to stay
with Miss Rachel, his aunt.

Jem, Scout, and Dill typically spend their summer
days playing games in the yard and acting out different imaginary scenarios. As the three kids
begin to play one of their standard games, "Tom and Sam and Dick," they quickly become
bored and wish to find a new game to play. Dill, who is known to exaggerate about his
experiences and breadth of knowledge, tells Jem and Scout that he can smell death,

"No, I mean I can smell somebody an' tell if they're gonna die.
An old lady taught me how." Dill leaned over and sniffed me. "Jean-Louise-Finch, you
are going to die in three days."

Dill lies and
teases about his ability to "smell death" to keep the games going and make their long
summer day more interesting. Dill's fib scares Scout and prompts a conversation of what Jem
refers to as "Hot Steams." A Hot Steam is essentially a
ghost or spirit that is said to be stuck on Earth due to having unfinished business, so are
unable to pass into the afterlife.

"Yawl hush,"
growled Jem, "you act like you believe in Hot Steams."

"You
act like you don't," I said.

"What's a Hot Steam?" asked
Dill.

"Haven't you ever walked along a lonesome road at night and passed
by a hot place?" Jem asked Dill. "A Hot Steam's somebody who can't get to heaven, just
wallows around on lonesome roads an' if you walk through him, when you die you'll be one too,
an' you'll go around at night suckin' people's breath-"

Scout tells Dill not to believe Jem about Hot Steams, but the kids are known to be
superstitious and intrigued by eerie mysteries, as seen in their fascination with . Jem, Scout,
and Dill's captivation with bizarre and otherworldly things sparks their new summer game, 'Boo
Radley.' The kids' interest in the unknown fuels their imaginations and sets the stage for an
unpredictable summer.