Useless TKAM Questions
Who is the better boy?
Tim Johnson or Spider?
Tim Johnson
Spider is a girl
Scout's full name.
Jean Louise Finch
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
bye guys
adieu
Scout enjoyed exploring the neighborhood with Jem.
Gerund - exploring
"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
Surely there must have been lush green lawns and paved streets under leafy shade trees somewhere in town; but memory is an abstract painting—it does not present things as they are, but rather as they feel.
Metaphor
Memory is a subjective thing - emotion-driven
The snowman Scout and Jem built is based on this character.
Mr. Avery
I hadn’t meant to be funny, but the ladies laughed. My cheeks grew hot as I realized my mistake, but _________________ looked gravely down at me. She never laughed at me unless I meant to be funny.
Miss Maudie
meander
The running children laughed loudly.
Participle - running
"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 literary device is used most prominently in this passage?
I have no memory of Haiti. No memory of my crib in Port-au-Prince, no memory of the neighbors’ children or the house in which we lived. My friends are in New York. My teachers are in New York. The Mets are in New York. I do not know Papa Doc, but our destinies are linked. If he leaves, I leave. I do not want him to leave.
Repetition (various kinds)
Anaphora (No memory, My x are in)
Epistrophe (in New York)
My father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child.
simile
Her PoV of her father transitioning from the "rock" of the family to a tiny, crying child emphasizes the instability Lizabeth feels.
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
The mum tried to _______ the child after his new
_______ broke.
console (n)
Her dream is to become a doctor.
Dinner party arguments—or bar- room fights—can be ignited by trying to decide who qualifies and who does not.
Ladies and Gents
What is the tone, and how is it achieved?
The Duvalier regime has finally come to an end. The New Year’s prediction has finally come true. If he leaves, I leave. In July, I fulfill my destiny, more or less. I return to Haiti, on an American passport, for a two-week visit.
Humorous
The overstatement of "fulfill my destiny" juxtaposed with the understated reality of "more or less" and "a two-week visit."
For some perverse reason, we children hated those marigolds. They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand; they did not make sense.
Symbolism.
Could argue several interpretations of the marigolds.
Hope, meaning, value, fulfillment. Whatever you choose, as long as it makes sense with the textual evidence.
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
Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.
Dill
synonym: blend in
assimilate
Reading before bed helps me relax.
Gerund - Reading
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
What is the tone of this passage and how does it characterize the narrator?
Another January first, another gathering. If it is the beginning of a new year, that is at best incidental. January first is the celebration of Haitian independence. A glorious day in world history, even if someone seems to have forgotten to tell the rest of the world.
Humorous - Tongue in Cheek - Ironic
He's proud of his Haitian heritage
or he characterizes Haitians as proud of their history.
I was running as if the Furies were after me, as perhaps they were—running silently and furiously until I came to where I had half known I was headed: to Miss Lottie’s yard.
Allusion
to the spirits who pursue those who have committed crimes, sometimes driving them mad.
creates a sense of desperation in her running.
The Mobile Register
Local opinion held ________________ to be an intense, profane little man, whose father in a fey fit of humor christened _______________, a name ________________ had done his best to live down. Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
Mr. (Braxton Bragg) Underwood
antonym: hamlet
metropolis
What is the verbal, and what is it acting as?
Sleepy students reviewed for hours to pass Chinese.
Infinitive - to pass - provides a reason for why they reviewed so it's an adverb
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
I don’t know what it was that we were waiting for; certainly not for the prosperity that was “just around the corner,” for those were white folks’ words, which we never believed.
Allusion - This is an allusion to a popular, but widely mocked sentiment during the Great Depression in the early 1930s and associated with Herbert Hoover, who was president at the time. He was eventually beaten by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election.