What's in a Name
What is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch?
(also acceptable: Jean Louise Finch)
This man was the first Finch to set foot in the Americas.
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in this county, in this state.
What is Maycomb County, Alabama?
When the traits of a person are straightforwardly given to the reader. Traits are simply described or revealed.
What is direct characterization?
To walk or move at a slow or relaxed pace.
What is to amble?
What is ambling?
Charles Baker Harris uses this name with his friends. It is more fitting for a boy of his stature.
What is Dill?
What is a heart-attack?
Because of a reference to his words, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself," the author dates the events of the book as happening after this year. (Give both Name and Year)
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933.
To Kill a Mockingbird is written from this perspective or point of view.
What is First Person perspective/ point of view?
Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
What is taciturn?
This is Jem's full name, which he say he is "big enough to fit."
What is Jeremy Atticus Finch?
She has been with the Finches since Jem was born; she cooks and minds the young Jem and Scout.
Who is Calpurnia?
The United States is in the midst of this event during the events of To Kill a Mockingbird; the greatest economic downturn in U.S. history.
What is the Great Depression?
When the author gives information about a character's actions or thoughts and allows the reader to make inferences about her/his traits.
What is indirect characterization?
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others. Boo Radley is described as being this kind of a phantom.
What is malevolent?
Members of this family were the first clients of Atticus Finch. They were hanged as punishment for their crimes.
Who are the Haverfords?
Atticus has these two siblings: one is a strong-willed farmer and the other is a doctor.
Who are Alexandra and John Hale Finch?
This novel takes place during a period of history in the American where this practice, the act of separating people based on physical characteristics, was common practice.
What is segregation?
The Narrator telling us that "Mrs. Dubose was plain hell" is an example of this form of characterization.
What is direct characterization?
According to the narrator, for the kids this meant : "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."
What is routine contentment?
This is Boo Radley's real first name.
The two young Finch children have this many years separating them.
What are four years?
Atticus’s office in the courthouse contained little more than these four items (name one of the three)
What are a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard, and an unsullied Code of Alabama?
The author writes the dialogue in 'vernacular', the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. Doing this, as well as writing about the quirks or customs of Maycomb, of this: a two-word term that was mentioned in class.
What is "local color"?
This term, according to Jem, was a "polite term for doing nothing." Mr. Radley was said to do this.
What is to "buy cotton"?
What is he "bought cotton"?
What is "buying cotton"?