TKAM
Scout's full name.
Jean Louise Finch
a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.
Dill
Many people escape the cruel _____ of slavery with the help of the Underground Railroad.
Bondage
"I immediately—no sooner than my hat was lifted —pretended that my packages were about to spill, and appeared deeply distressed with keeping them in my arms. In this fashion I evaded having to acknowledge his service, and, in spite of adverse circumstances, salvaged a slender shred of personal pride.’’
Etiquette of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South
The sport that causes Jean-Benoit to feel a "natal pull"
Football
The snowman Scout and Jem built is based on this character.
Mr. Avery
His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?
Miss Maudie
meander
"sexual contact between black men and white women was an extraordinary symbolic threat precisely because it occurred at the point where systems of race and gender intersected in the southern cultural matrix.’’
Etiquette of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South
"What is dangerous here is the turning away from – the turning away from – anything any white American says."
Where is this quote from?
Pin Drop
Calpurnia's son's name and what she teaches him.
Zeebo - Reading
what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out.
Jem
bye guys
adieu
Dinner party arguments—or bar- room fights—can be ignited by trying to decide who qualifies and who does not.
Ladies and Gents
"I remember, for example, when the ex Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, said that it was conceivable that in forty years, in America, we might have a Negro president. That sounded like a very emancipated statement, I suppose, to white people."
The reaction from the black community in Harlem
"laughter and the bitterness"
Something Miss Maudie is good at and a related thing that she does not want to share with Miss Stephanie Crawford.
Baking - Lane cake recipe
Cords of saliva would collect on her lips; she would draw them in, then open her mouth again. Her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own.
Mrs. Dubose
antonym: hamlet
metropolis
evokes images of kindly old master with his mint julep, happy darkies singing in the fields, coquettish belles wooed by slender gallants. It is a romanticized moonlight-and- magnolias world, which yields all too easily to caricature and ridicule.
Mythic South - The Old South
The name of Miss Lottie's son
John Burke
The Mobile Register
"He walked erratically, as if his right legs were shorter than his left legs."
Tim Johnson
Blend in
Assimilate
It told of noble, virtuous Christian warriors, the highest product of the Old South, defending the southern homeland from rapacious Yankees.
Mythic South - Lost Cause
Italy 3 Haiti 1