Female Characters
What is the name of the narrator?
Scout
What is Charles Baker Harris's real name?
Dill
When Scout doesn't want to go to school in the first half of the book, what does Atticus tell her to do?
Put herself in Miss Caroline's shoes
What does the word malevolent mean?
evil, malicious, mean
When Atticus tells Scout to put herself in Jem's skin and walk around in it, what literary element is it?
Figurative language
What is the cook's name and how does the family feel about her?
Calpurnia
Scout annoyed by her but growing to like her
Atticus -depends on her
What is Boo Radley's real name and why hasn't he come out of his house in fifteen years?
Arthur Radley. He hasn't come out of his house in fifteen years for two reasons. One, he is a recluse, afraid of people and life. Two, the last time some kids took him out when he was their age, he ended up in jail because they tricked him into misbehaving.
twine, gum, soap, watch, Indian heads (pennies)
From chapter two, eight and fifteen, what does entailment mean?
owing someone
What literary element is used when the narrator says Miss Maudie's house was devoured and eaten by flame?
figurative language
What happened to Scout's mom?
Died of a heart attack when Scout was two.
There are two Walter Cunninghams. Name one fact you know about each.
Walter, the son, poured molasses all over his food and wouldn't take money he couldn't pay back.
Walter, the father, paid Atticus in hickory wood and stove nuts when he couldn't pay for his legal fees. He is a proud man and is in the group of KKK men that show up at Atticus's house before the trial in the second half of the novel.
Why does the author, Harper Lee have Dill propose to Scout and then Uncle Jack propose to Miss Maudie right after?
The juxtaposition of the two facts reveals that little changes in this town from generation to generation. That can be good and fun, but it can also be bad when it comes to ideology like racism.
From chapter three, what does expounding mean?
explaining
What literary element is it when the issue of females comes up repeatedly? Not theme but a secondary theme
motif
Which character says, "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird because all they do is sing their hearts out for us"?
Miss Maudie
Who only comes to school one day a year and what "health problem" did he have when he came this year?
Burris Ewell
lice
What item was caught under a fence and crudely sewn?
Jem's pants
From chapter four, what does melancholy mean?
depressing
What literary element is revealed about Atticus when he says, "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win"?
This is a double negative that reveals Atticus incredibly ethical CHARACTERIZTION
Why are the women in the novel often described as deserts?
Because the author is trying to show the lack of depth in some of the female characters to reveal that many of them are real "sugary sweet" but lacking "substance." The quote about in favor of southern womanhood as much as the next guy but not at the expense of a fiction and a man's life shows that to preserve their racist way of life some would let innocent Tom Robinson die.
What does the book say it means to be a foot-washing Baptist and which character is a foot washing Baptist?
They believe anything that is a pleasure is a sin.
Nathan Radley
What is revealed when Atticus shoots the dog in the street? He goes from being seen as what to what by his children? (remember my hand gestures)
Loser to Hero
focused on death
You must name the THREE characteristics.
1) weaker than us
2) have been kind
3) thus are owed protection in return