To Kill A Mockingbird‚ opens with a quaint look on of the hometown of the main protagonist‚ Scout‚ and his family and friends. Scout is a six year-old girl‚ she and her brother‚ Jem‚ live with her father‚ Atticus. Scout has two close friends‚ Calpurnia‚ being a cook‚ and a short naive boy named‚ Dill; of whom Jem and Scout met during one summer. Scout reveals through first person narrative of some social taboo’s in‚ Maycomb; Scout’s residing township: Doors or windows left closed or ajar
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SETTING To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a made-up town called Maycomb County. Maycomb is a small town that is placed in southern Alabama and is isolated pretty well in the middle of nowhere. Not a lot of people move in and not a lot of people move out of town. The date in which To Kill a Mockingbird is somewhere in the early to middle 1930s. This is in the midst of the Great Depression and is nearly 70 years since the abolishment of slavery. PLOT Atticus Finch‚ along with the help of
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To Kill a Mockingbird Exam 1 1. Boo Radley is Mr. Radley’s son and he lives on Jem’s street. His name is Arthur and he is described as the town’s phantom who only comes out at night. Boo joins the bad crowd and he resists arrest and helps his friends lock an officer in the courthouse outhouse. His father locks him up in their house as a punishment for Boo instead of him going to the state industrial school. Boo Radley has not been seen for fifteen years‚ but after he stabs his father with
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Chapter 9: 1. a) Atticus says it’s a word common people use. It just makes people feel bad and forbids his children from saying it. He said he wouldn’t be able to hold his head up in town. Also‚ he does it to show his children a good example. Lastly‚ he stuck to his conscience and stood up against the entire town. c) It’s about courage‚ in relevance to his taking of the case. Scout was using vulgarities. Atticus was saying this to Uncle Jack; that she’d grow out of it soon. He’s explaining to
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SUMMARY: Tom Jones receives two letters in this chapter. The first one is from Lady Bellaston. She tells him she should despise him for his behavior at her house and for loving a country girl. She also warns him that she can hate as passionately as she can love. While Mr Jones was thinking how to reply to the letter‚ Lady Bellaston walks in with her dress in disarray. She asks if he has betrayed her‚ and he promises her on his knees that he has not. Suddenly Partridge announces Mrs. Honour’s arrival
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Chapter 1: #1 a) “Tired old town” (pg. 5) b) “Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing fear but fear itself” (pg. 6) c) “nothing to buy and no money to buy with it” (pg. 6) d) “nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County” (pg. 10) #2 The setting of the story take place in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ during the 1930’s. #3 Scout was telling the story about Boo Radley‚ she said Radley was locked up in a basement as a teenager for once getting in trouble
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The book’s first chapter is about Dryden meeting Rachel. She runs into him early in the morning and asks “Yes or no‚ she said‚ I can’t wait any longer”(Lee 6). From how Patrick Lee describes the scene you can clearly tell Rachel does not have a lot of time to waste. She needs to get going as fast as possible. That is why I chose the song Time Bomb by All Time Low. The quote from the song is‚ “We were like a time bomb set into motion‚ we knew that we were destined to explode”. This quote works imperviously
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Chapters 1-5 _____l. Jem a. respected lawyer in town _____2. Simon Finch b. is the main “character” actor in the plays performed by the children _____3. Boo Radley c. never brings a lunch to school because his family is too poor _____4. Atticus d. A big sin because they are innocent; known for their sweet song _____5. Jack e. only comes the first day of every school year; whole family lazy _____6. Calpurnia f. Atticus’s brother;
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In the beginning of chapter 28‚ Jem and Scout walk to the high school for the play. As they walk through the dark field‚ Cecil Jacobs jumps out to scare the two. They finally reach the high school and Scout puts on her ham costume. Scout falls asleep and accidentally misses her cue to go on stage‚ making Mrs. Merriweather very furious. Scout keeps her costume on for the rest of the night as a way to punish herself. Jem and Scout begin to walk home after the carnival. As they walk home‚ Scout realizes
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Chapter 1: * Ancestors came here by river * Each generation after the first of Simon lived and grew cotton with black slaves until the father Atticus decided to study law * Atticus invested his money in his brother john who studied law when it wasn’t worth growing cotton * Extremely hot weather is what the girl first remembers of the town * Lived on the main street in town Atticus‚ jem‚ the girl and the cook Calpurnia (coloured woman) * The girl’s mother died when she was 2
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